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  1. UMFarArcher

    Off-Topic Tier one Special mission unit; special operations; military

    Aye. The military - especially Special Operators - were used as CIA manpower - and you may recall that under Trumps prior administration - he stopped that. No more "easing around the legality/command structure" to man their operations. Trump cut that. HE'S the Commander in Chief. Not the...
  2. UMFarArcher

    Off-Topic Tier one Special mission unit; special operations; military

    That's a fair question. If you'll permit - I'll try to give you an understanding of the base material. In SF, before I got started, there was battery after battery of tests and questionnaires and one on one phychological evaluatations. How you think, how you approach problems, how you tackle...
  3. UMFarArcher

    Off-Topic Tier one Special mission unit; special operations; military

    Very different from SEALS. I've known SEALS and have known one since we were in Middle School. When you really spend time with them, and talk with them, you realize that they're a highly trained, very tough human weapon. No Ph.D's among them. In Special Forces, they are one and all - highly...
  4. UMFarArcher

    Off-Topic Tier one Special mission unit; special operations; military

    I've been flat on the ground, and bounced off the ground by artillery - and once buried in the dirt in the lip of a crater . . . maybe that is the cause of my behavior problem . . . :p . . . that started at age thirteen . . . Seriously, it's the concussive compression well beyond...
  5. UMFarArcher

    Off-Topic Tier one Special mission unit; special operations; military

    I'd be mighty tempted to shoot a fellow team member that cut away that pack - it could hit another teammate - and what I carried was not just for me - but the entire team. Once I had this communication load - our coms guys were already loaded up and this "box" must have weighed as much or more...
  6. UMFarArcher

    Off-Topic Tier one Special mission unit; special operations; military

    It STILL pizzes me off to hear Fort Bragg referred to as Fort Liberty. The French guy that took second place has to be a Louisiana Cajun that had just moved to France.
  7. UMFarArcher

    Off-Topic Tier one Special mission unit; special operations; military

    I've been strapped with so much crap - I could only "rock" and waddle to exit the plane. It hits the ground first - so it's not like you have to actually support all that weight when you hit the ground. But if I had my druthers - and when I did - I traveled very light. I only brought one meal...
  8. UMFarArcher

    Off-Topic Tier one Special mission unit; special operations; military

    I had my third parachute malfunction two months before I got out - and called it right then. Cigarette roll, one Mae West, and one total malfunction. Figured eventually my reserve might fail . . . So now I actually LAND in aircraft. A whole new experience.
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