Thanks for the heads up JOE!
Wow. If you want a better example of military stupidity then look no further than the Commanding Officer of Special Operations in S. Korea, General Tolley. via AFP.
WASHINGTON — US and South Korean special forces have been parachuting into North Korea to gather intelligence about underground military installations, a US officer has said in comments carried in US media.SOCOM has an operational security problem.
Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of US special forces in South Korea, told a conference held in Florida last week that Pyongyang had built thousands of tunnels since the Korean war, The Diplomat reported.
"The entire tunnel infrastructure is hidden from our satellites," Tolley said, according to The Diplomat, a current affairs magazine. "So we send (South Korean) soldiers and US soldiers to the North to do special reconnaissance."
"After 50 years, we still don't know much about the capability and full extent" of the underground facilities," he said, in comments reported by the National Defense Industrial Association's magazine on its website.
Tolley said the commandos were sent in with minimal equipment to facilitate their movements and minimize the risk of detection by North Korean forces.
At least four of the tunnels built by Pyongyang go under the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea, Tolley said.
"We don't know how many we don't know about," he admitted.
Among the facilities identified are 20 air fields that are partially underground, and thousands of artillery positions.
In February, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that had built at least two new tunnels at a nuclear testing site, likely in preparation for a new test.
Too many in the head shed are talking.
I can't wait to hear the official explanation on this one.
not covert anymore, i wonder if this could have possibly been leaked to try and destabilize the N. Korean govt or somehow intentional to bait the N. Koreans to do something, thats the only thing i can think of for releasing this other than stupidity.
ReplyDeletethis is totally inexplicable. it makes no sense what so ever. how can you explain this away? if anything this will lead many to think that all the peace talks have been a sham and even to think that we're preparing for war.
ReplyDeletethese things are suppose to be secret for a reason. what happens when word leaks that we're running missions into China? or Russia? or Iran?
the damage is beyond belief in my opinion.
well i was trying to be an optimist but i completely agree, so much for special operations being special anymore.
ReplyDeletethey're special but they've gotten too big. the Marine Corps doesn't need to be involved in it. Special Forces needs to get back to being extremely selective and cut down on some of the ODA's, same with SEALs...Rangers seems about right sized but the rest??????? naw.
ReplyDeleteplus the leadership seems like a bunch of jackasses. i don't like what i'm seeing from the leadership from SOCOM....i was always suspicious of McRaven but this just reinforces it.
Tolley is wearing the right Tabs so he should know better.
While one's first reaction is to jump all over the general for "leaking" this information is it possible that this information was previously put in the public domain? Could South Korea have made this information public or was the general instructed to put out this information? Now if this information has not previously been made public then the next question is whether the general is currently under arrest and if not why not?
ReplyDeleteCould be it's not even real. Maybe they just said it to kick the ant hill and now they sit back and watch from the air and space and see where the ants scurry.
ReplyDeleteyou don't float trial balloons with a rogue state like N. Korea.
ReplyDeletei really can't believe you guys are willing to cut this General that kind of slack by making those comments. this son of a bitch fucked up.
he got in front of reporters and got giddy and said what he wasn't suppose to ... i expect to see him be quietly replaced in a month or two.
It looks like the stupid journalist may be back pedaling. I'm going to wait to see how this plays out.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/us-denies-n-korea-commando-operation/2012/05/29/gJQA4viVyU_story.html?hpid=z2
I'm not cutting the general slack. I just find it slightly unbelievable that even Zero would be stupid enough to drop troops into North Korea. Then again, it's an election year and he's got to do something to divert attention away from his complete failure as a President.
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