Everytime I feel the need to jump up and defend the US Navy SEALs, it turns out that they've simply SHOT THEMSELVES in the foot because they TALK TOO FUCKING MUCH!
Quite honestly I have never seen a more publicity driven special operations outfit in my life. Only the SAS rivals them, but they can be excused because they're British and they can't help it once they start tossing back a few pints.
But I'm really having trouble sorting this stuff out with the SEALs.
US Army Special Forces is as tight as a virgin on her wedding day at 40 years old. SEALs? Like a hooker in New Orleans!
US Army Rangers. You don't hear a thing. US Air Force Special Ops. Nadda. US Marine Corps Special Ops? Zilch.
But the SEALs seem to keep reaching for publicity and it keeps biting them. Check out this story from the Virginia Pilot....
So I was right in my first post (in the comments section) when I stated that this wasn't a range but specifically a kill house. Interesting. Most kill houses (and to be honest I only know of two) are restricted, no cameras and no civilians. But the SEALs had a ribbon cutting and a tour of the facility. Amazing. Which leads to how the Council on Islamic American Relations found out about the head scarf wearing female target.The range - often referred to as a "kill house" - is divided into four zones by steel doors, meaning four groups can train simultaneously. Scenarios include a mosque, bank, post office, market and residential compound. In one section, nine chairs painted in primary hues sit behind desks in an elementary school classroom. Other rooms are more sinister, like a torture chamber accessed through a bus station wall.
Many of the details were taken from actual raids over the past decade, said Capt. Tim Szymanski, the commodore of Naval Special Warfare Group Two.
"I don't think there's anything comparable in the continental United States," Szymanski said during a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Instructors will observe from above, using catwalks that criss-cross the building.
Larry Pacifico, who manages the complex, said instructors will control each scenario using an iPad to adjust the lighting and movement of the targets. Cameras will record the action, so SEALs will find out where the bullets they fired came to rest, he said, down to specific bones and organs.
C'mon guys! You're better than this! But you can read the whole thing for yourself. First article here. Second (where CAIR goes ballistic) here.
the worst part is the most serious issue isn't political correctness but you have mentioned before we are teaching the world how they operate. If the world gets to know the details of SEAL tactics, its inevitable enemies will devise ways of countering them. its scary, i worry one day a seal team is actually captured or shot down, a hostile nation with many special operators, a disaster waiting to happen.
ReplyDeletenah they're not giving away trade secrets by showing off the room. but that's not the point. its reactive shooting and the shame of this whole thing is that you have to get your guys used to shooting a threat even if its a woman. its the threat that should be the issue not the sex. but what liberals don't' understand is that chivalry isn't dead and that most guys will stand up and defend a woman if she's being threatened. and most guys will hesitate to shoot women. kill houses get those types of notions out of the way.
ReplyDeleteyou could say that kill houses help teach equality to barbaric guys. you can shoot women too if they're trying to kill you.
i agree Sol, its sad that this is a controverey but there have been women suicide bombers and used as combatants, i think its better they left this in the dark and not let it out but we have to train for war, and war is hell. As Gen. Lee said "its good war is so terrible, lest we grow to fond of it".
ReplyDeletei was talking about the tactics in a more general sense, not only this instance but like the movie the seals made, books, etc, as you have mentioned many times on this blog its not nearly the first time they have come out to the media. to me its not one stupid instance but a pattern of behavior.
I could make an exception for the Koran verses, since we already bend over backwards to keep the natives from going apeshit, but they seem to have more problems with the image of a Muslim woman than anything else.
ReplyDelete"It creates the impression, we believe, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, that you should view Muslim women in headscarves with hostility and suspicion."
So let me ask this...would this guy be okay if the image was of a White woman holding gun with a burka, or just a plain old White woman with no burka?
If we take this BS to its natural conclusion, there goes all sorts of training that resembles real life encounters.
Or maybe he has a problem with women being seen as fighters? The irony.
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