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  • @[email protected]M
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    3 months ago

    Hand grenades are vastly superior fighters compared to Navy SEALs. When hand grenades complete their mission, they simply cease to exist, but Navy SEALs get book deals, shit takes on twitter and a podcast

    • @InverseParallax
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      3 months ago

      When hand grenades complete their mission, they simply cease to exist,

      Non-service connected condition.

      SEALs get book deals

      This is a conundrum…

    • @[email protected]
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      163 months ago

      In their defense, it turns out that a lot of the insanity and violent mood swings are related to brain damage from firing 10.3s indoors constantly.

      But on the other hand what the fuck.

      • @[email protected]M
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        123 months ago

        there’s plenty of unhealthy shit in military, like TBI from arty and grenades, lead exposure from primers and crayons, the reason why there’s “do not eat” written on claymores, and few others. but none of these things appear to happen that much in other units. there were attempts to disband navy seals over their rotten unit culture, but nothing of that happened yet

        • @[email protected]
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          93 months ago

          Yeah, they are sort of just the worst in JSOC (although one wonders about the CIA direct action groups). But between this shit, the Nazis in the KSK, and Australian helicopter musical-chairs, it really does seem like there’s something about special operations that attracts the worst a country has to offer.

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            Psychopathic traits probably help someone be an effective killer? I imagine they also probably mean someone is likely a shit stain of a person.

            • @[email protected]
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              53 months ago

              I know they specifically mentioned temperament in the selection section of one of the sniper manuals. Not sure about special operations.

              Honestly, most special operations selection processes seem to have very little to do with the actual what most Tier 1 units actually do. CAG, for example, has a 40 mile solo nav course as part of their selection.

              • @[email protected]
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                33 months ago

                Literally every guy I knew in 10th group that went out for CAG came back with some ankle injury from the land nav course. Didn’t help my gopher-hole paranoia. Why is seemingly every stateside DZ just teeming with some kind of burrowing creatures?

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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          73 months ago

          I bet he’d have volunteers, and would feel better if he gave it an actual try.

          But he appears too homophobic to kiss a pretty boy that loves him.

          • @nomous
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            43 months ago

            He could even find some subby little twinks that liked calling him daddy or whatever, but he has to learn to love and accept himself first.

          • @Duamerthrax
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            13 months ago

            Isn’t that what Proud Boys is for?