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August 27, 2003
SEAL Team Six
These days I am re-reading Dick Marcinko which is a hell of a lot of fun. The particular piece of airport fiction I am engrossed in is called 'Rogue Warrior: Red Cell'. As you can imagine, the frank verisimilitude of such narratives would be considered anathema these days, but I'm a spy fan going way back. So I am accustomed to hearing about how incompetent and superior we are all at once.
Now considering that it doesn't take a genius to realize that certain elite units work as cover for super secret units and individuals much of the dirty deeds we have been doing in Iraq to secure the top 52 are not surprising. What has me curious now are a couple of things.
1. How many of these special CT units have been reactivated and/or initiated since nine-eleven? (It was only last summer that BUDS training reality shows were airing on the Discovery Channel - there are no coincidences)
2. What kind of vulnerabilities are we really dealing with that we are certainly not being told?
Such matters are classified of course. So there isn't much we outsiders can know, either about the bone chilling vulnerabilities or the superhuman achievements. These are the elements in shaping the policies and language, and you can be sure for every soldier who is lost in Iraq a very detailed accounting of why is being made. Somebody is losing men, and somebody in the Pentagon will pay politically.
In the meantime, you may take comfort or worry your butt off in an episode of Marcinko's. I highly recommend it for an inside the head experience of the guys who are ready to die for our side, especially those who hate doing it for the wrong reason and the wrong people.
I'm sure Marcinko is muzzled on the politcal subjects of the day, but I'd sure like to hear what he'd have to say.
Posted by mbowen at August 27, 2003 10:40 PM
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Comments
Yeah! It's a cool book.yeahh!huhh
by :Ferenc(z) from Budapest,Hungary
Posted by: Don Ferenc(z) at November 9, 2003 04:13 AM
Yeah! It's a cool book.yeahh!huhh
by :Ferenc(z) from Budapest,Hungary
Posted by: Don Ferenc(z) at November 9, 2003 04:13 AM
I've read all Demo Dicky's books. All I can say is we need more men like Marcinko, who kicks asses and takes names. A large part of the military are populated by the pencil-pushers...the exact nemesis of the Shark Man of the Delta.
Posted by: A Marcinko's fan at December 2, 2003 09:12 PM