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

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Between his time in the SEAL Teams (Devgru) and 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta, Kevin worked as a game warden in North Carolina. Following his time in the military he operated with other government agencies and non-governmental organizations in conflict zones around the world.

'Then, a big Texan nails him in the mouth, knocks him down – cause he’s got a gun, he’s armed. So we had to make sure that he couldn’t get to that gun.' 'So he jumps out, I jump in,'... 'I got my .45, and look down, and I got my flashlight. 'It was just enough room, a six foot area, for a guys to lay down, and he had a little bench he could sit on

how Saddam Hussein was captured @ (1:06:50)​

Fall of Kabul @ (1:31:00)

 

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John Chapman (MoH recipient), an Air Force Combat Controller, along with a SEAL Team 6 recce, are attempting to rescue their lost teammate. You'll watch Chapman's stunning and heroic actions as he saves the lives of his entire SEAL team, and another 18 members of a quick-reaction force, to earn America's highest honor: The Medal of Honor

The First Medal of Honor Ever Recorded​

Senior Chief "Slab" Slabinski (MoH recipient), John Chapman's team leader, led a reconnaissance team to its assigned area atop Takur Ghar, a 10,000-foot snow-covered mountain in Afghanistan. An enemy rocket-propelled grenade attack on the insertion helicopter caused Petty Officer Neil Roberts to fall onto the enemy-infested mountaintop below, and forced the damaged helicopter to crash land in the valley below. Fully aware of the risks, a numerically superior and well-entrenched enemy force, and approaching daylight, without hesitation Senior Chief Slabinski made the selfless and heroic decision to lead the remainder of his element on an immediate and daring rescue back to the mountaintop.


KIA
John Chapman
Neil Roberts

 

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https://news.va.gov/68765/veteranoftheday-navy-veteran-jonny-kim/

Navy SEAL with Harvard medical degree becomes NASA astronaut

Navy Reserve Lt. Jonny Kim, 35, said he plans to draw on his battlefield experiences when he goes into space.

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U.S. Navy SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser, aka “The Punishers”
Kim graduated BUD/S class 247 and was assigned to SEAL Team 3 with the rating Special Warfare Operator. He deployed twice to the Middle East and participated in over 100 combat missions as a combat medic, sniper, navigator, and point man. During his tenure with the SEALs, Kim served with PO2s Marc Alan Lee and Michael A. Monsoor.
Kim is a recipient of a Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal (with Combat "V"), the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (with Combat "V"), and Combat Action Ribbon. According to Jocko Willink, Kim's Silver Star was awarded for rescuing multiple wounded Iraqi soldiers in the face of enemy fire. As of March 2022, Kim was still described as a SEAL with the rank of lieutenant commander.

 

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The Slabinski story has A LOT of question marks & his reputation within the SEALS is not a good one...

 

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The Slabinski story has A LOT of question marks & his reputation within the SEALS is not a good one...

Taku Ghar

Appears 'Slabs' heroism that garnered the MoH is not in question. However, his leadership prior to Petty Officer Neil Roberts fall onto the enemy-infested mountaintop has been criticized. Due to loss of time and under pressure from the Air Force BG Gregory L. Trebon, decided to insert his team at the top of Taku Ghar instead of inserting at the base of the mountain and climbing up under cover. Even while flying up to top of the mountain, and alarmed by seeing footprints on the snow on the mountain ridgelines, continued to the mountaintop. QRF responding to troops in contact received casualties and KIA. Also criticized for leaving behind John Chapman (It's been hypothesized that Slab mistook the remains of Roberts as the deceased Chapman; therefore, erroneously leaving Chapman behind).

 

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ISIS leader killed in Somalia was responsible for Kabul bombing

The members of SEAL Team 6 that killed Bilal al-Sudani last month practiced their raid in a similar manner to the commandos who conducted the raid on bin Laden's compound.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[SWFLHurricane]

My brother, Top 3rd from left in Da nang 1969 Seal Team 2......

 

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ISIS leader killed in Somalia was responsible for Kabul bombing

The members of SEAL Team 6 that killed Bilal al-Sudani last month practiced their raid in a similar manner to the commandos who conducted the raid on bin Laden's compound.

www.dailymail.co.uk

TF-Blue; Somalia has been their AOR since 2011.

That was TacDevron 2-Alpha Troop who got the target.

 

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US Army MSG Brandon Jackson

From Detroit Michigan, joined the Army straight out of High school at 18 where he would go to Fort Benning on an Option 40 as an US Army Airborne Ranger. He would end up in 3rd Ranger Battalion 75th Regiment, Bravo Company as an 11B ASI B4.

After multiple deployments with 3/75th, he would eventually earn the opportunity getting the invite to JSOC assessment & selection, after passing OTC was assigned/inducted into 1st SFOD-D C Squadron Troop 1 B Team. He would go on to serve in CAG (Delta Force) for 12 years as an Operator.

Unfortunately, he passed away in 2016 on a Base jumping accident in Georgia shortly after retiring.

His career awards include:
- Silver Star
- Bronze Star with Valor
- Purple Heart
- Legion Of Merit
- Meritorious Service Medal
- Army Good Conduct Medal
- American Defense Medal

Among many others.

 

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US Army MSG Brandon Jackson

From Detroit Michigan, joined the Army straight out of High school at 18 where he would go to Fort Benning on an Option 40 as an US Army Airborne Ranger. He would end up in 3rd Ranger Battalion 75th Regiment, Bravo Company as an 11B ASI B4.

After multiple deployments with 3/75th, he would eventually earn the opportunity getting the invite to JSOC assessment & selection, after passing OTC was assigned/inducted into 1st SFOD-D C Squadron Troop 1 B Team. He would go on to serve in CAG (Delta Force) for 12 years as an Operator.

Unfortunately, he passed away in 2016 on a Base jumping accident in Georgia shortly after retiring.

His career wards include:
- Silver Star
- Bronze Star with Valor
- Purple Heart
- Legion Of Merit
- Meritorious Service Medal
- Army Good Conduct Medal
- American Defense Medal

Among many others.

My brother rest on..

 

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US Army MSG Brandon Jackson

From Detroit Michigan, joined the Army straight out of High school at 18 where he would go to Fort Benning on an Option 40 as an US Army Airborne Ranger. He would end up in 3rd Ranger Battalion 75th Regiment, Bravo Company as an 11B ASI B4.

After multiple deployments with 3/75th, he would eventually earn the opportunity getting the invite to JSOC assessment & selection, after passing OTC was assigned/inducted into 1st SFOD-D C Squadron Troop 1 B Team. He would go on to serve in CAG (Delta Force) for 12 years as an Operator.

Unfortunately, he passed away in 2016 on a Base jumping accident in Georgia shortly after retiring.

His career wards include:
- Silver Star
- Bronze Star with Valor
- Purple Heart
- Legion Of Merit
- Meritorious Service Medal
- Army Good Conduct Medal
- American Defense Medal

Among many others.

 

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US Army MSG Brandon Jackson

From Detroit Michigan, joined the Army straight out of High school at 18 where he would go to Fort Benning on an Option 40 as an US Army Airborne Ranger. He would end up in 3rd Ranger Battalion 75th Regiment, Bravo Company as an 11B ASI B4.

After multiple deployments with 3/75th, he would eventually earn the opportunity getting the invite to JSOC assessment & selection, after passing OTC was assigned/inducted into 1st SFOD-D C Squadron Troop 1 B Team. He would go on to serve in CAG (Delta Force) for 12 years as an Operator.

Unfortunately, he passed away in 2016 on a Base jumping accident in Georgia shortly after retiring.

His career awards include:
- Silver Star
- Bronze Star with Valor
- Purple Heart
- Legion Of Merit
- Meritorious Service Medal
- Army Good Conduct Medal
- American Defense Medal

Among many others.

I remember as a young adult/kid pulling into the parking lot my first day at Regiment in on Expedition on 23s, music blasting and bumping. Being walked up to by one of the 1SGs, who chastised me and told me to never do that again, as I would be blackballed and shipped out. He introduced me to BJ, who introduced me to a brother who was from Miami as well. This guy was my boy who I ran with back in Miami during high school and I took his ASVAB test (that's another story), but had lost connection with. We all worked hard and played harder. We had some wild Saturday nights at the Fire House in Columbus, GA, to say the least. Those were amazing times, looking back on them. When I got the word it was heartbreaking. BJ passed away being the fun/adventurous guy he always was.

 

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US Army MSG Brandon Jackson

From Detroit Michigan, joined the Army straight out of High school at 18 where he would go to Fort Benning on an Option 40 as an US Army Airborne Ranger. He would end up in 3rd Ranger Battalion 75th Regiment, Bravo Company as an 11B ASI B4.

After multiple deployments with 3/75th, he would eventually earn the opportunity getting the invite to JSOC assessment & selection, after passing OTC was assigned/inducted into 1st SFOD-D C Squadron Troop 1 B Team. He would go on to serve in CAG (Delta Force) for 12 years as an Operator.

Unfortunately, he passed away in 2016 on a Base jumping accident in Georgia shortly after retiring.

His career awards include:
- Silver Star
- Bronze Star with Valor
- Purple Heart
- Legion Of Merit
- Meritorious Service Medal
- Army Good Conduct Medal
- American Defense Medal

Among many others.

RIP soldier. These men who passed after their service deserve nothing less than a hero's remembrance.

 

[SWFLHurricane]

The tall lanky guy next to your brother looks like a buddy of mine. He was a Seal and served in Nam. Does your brother recall the name. My buddy is still living. His first name is Richard.

My brother passed in an Automobile accident in 1986. (Non Military related)

 

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SGM Erick Miyares

From Hialeah FL, joined the Marine Corps in 1991 as an Infantryman & would make his way onto 4th ANGLICO as a JTAC in the FCT. After 5 years in the Marines he would go to DLI as a reservist & get an opportunity to re-enlist with the US Army & join on with 7th SFG (Airborne) as an Intelligence Specialist & Liaison.

After 2 years attached with 7th group he would get the opportunity to be apart of the JSOC SMU as a SIGNIT, CNO, GEOINT & OSINT as apart of Technical Operations Director under the Computer Network Ops DOD Intelligence Agency. He would then get inducted into the most secretive & classified unit in the entire US Armed Forces, JREG (better known as ISA) doing HUMINT operations in Afghanistan.

He had over 20 years as an Intelligence Officer doing SIGNIT (Signals Intelligence), HUMINT (Human Intelligence) & ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance) with TF-O. Which means he was doing DEEP reconnaissance undercover work essentially posing as an Afghan in order to infiltrate the Taliban & gather sensitive intel while doing extremely high-security threat level missions. Along with data cryptology & both Long/Short-range surveillance of targets.

Simply put, he spent 2 decades in some of the most dangerous places in the Middle East deeply embedded with foreign assets & entrenched with terrorist combatants that would’ve beheaded him if they ever discovered his identity, while providing intel for the rest of the Elite Tier 1 & 2 Units allowing them to carry out pivotal operations.

 

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CSM Jesse D. Boettcher, from Wisconsin.



Joined the Army reserves 1988 & got his first abroad task 3rd Infantry in Germany in 1990, then was assigned to 101st Airborne Division in Ft. Campbell n 1st/327th Inf Scout Platoon in 92.



By 1995, he would attend SFQC (aka Q Course) where he would pass selection & get assigned to 5th SFG 2nd Battalion A-Group ODA 551. He would stick with 5th group SF for 10 years until he would go to 10th SFG & a few years after that would get inducted into JSOC SMU & become a CAG Operator.

 

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CSM Jesse D. Boettcher, from Wisconsin.



Joined the Army reserves 1988 & got his first abroad task 3rd Infantry in Germany in 1990, then was assigned to 101st Airborne Division in Ft. Campbell n 1st/327th Inf Scout Platoon in 92.



By 1995, he would attend SFQC (aka Q Course) where he would pass selection & get assigned to 5th SFG 2nd Battalion A-Group ODA 551. He would stick with 5th group SF for 10 years until he would go to 10th SFG & a few years after that would get inducted into JSOC SMU & become a CAG Operator.

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ARSOF Fallen: MSG George A. Fernandez

MSG George A. Fernandez: ARSOF Fallen from the War on Terrorism

arsof-history.org

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Army Sgt. 1st Class Steven M. Langmack| Military Times

Honoring those who fought and died in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn

thefallen.militarytimes.com

(Discussed at 1:15:35) Master Sergeant Robert M. Horrigan, a pivotal role
in Operation Anaconda (KIA), and Master Sergeant Michael L. McNulty (KIA)

Gone too soon: Delta Force legend Robert Horrigan

I’m an idiot. How many times have I told myself not to chat up the owners of the corner kiosks for language training? Pick a kiosk that you don’t have to

sofrep.com

Robert Mark Horrigan - Master Sergeant. United States Army

Get all the information you need at first hand. Self reviewed and self written. Real experts report on arlingtoncemetery.net

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ARSOF Fallen: MSG Michael L. McNulty

MSG Michael L. McNulty: ARSOF Fallen from the War on Terrorism

arsof-history.org

Army Master Sgt. Michael L. McNulty| Military Times

Honoring those who fought and died in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn

thefallen.militarytimes.com

(Discussed at 1:47:05) Sgt. 1st Class Lance S. Cornett

Camp Cornett dedicated to fallen Soldier

www.army.mil

SFC Lance S. Cornett

SFC Lance S. Cornett: ARSOF Fallen from the War on Terrorism

arsof-history.org

 

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Delta Force Legend Gary Harrell Dies in Tennessee

US Army Maj. Gen. Gary Harrell, the legendary Delta Force leader, has died.

coffeeordie.com

Ex-Delta Force Commander Harrell Retires | Navy SEALs

Source: Henry Cuningham Gary L. Harrell was headed for a high school algebra class when an announcement offered an attractive alternative: A pitch on Army

navyseals.com

He was 71 and had hunted Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, led an operation to free an American hostage from a Panamanian prison, and battled the nation’s enemies in Grenada, the Gulf War, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan during three decades of service. In 1989, he led the Operation Acid Gambit team that broke into Cárcel Modelo prison to rescue American spy Kurt Muse shortly before the invasion of Panama officially kicked off. In mid-1992, he took command of Delta Force’s C Squadron and deployed to Colombia, where he spearheaded the hunt for the drug lord Escobar.

Then it was off to Somalia as a ground force commander supporting UNOSOM II. In 1993, he deployed to Somalia to help counter warlords that were undermining humanitarian efforts in the East African country. Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down during a Delta Force and Ranger raid meant to capture warlord leaders.

Twice, Harrell turned down the request of two Delta Force operators to go to the rescue of one downed helicopter crew being overrun by a violent mob in Mogadishu. The third time, Harrell told Master Sgt. Gary Gordon and Sgt. 1st Class Randy Shughart yes. Harrell pauses with emotion when asked about his decision. “They knew there was nothing else to back them up,” Harrell said. “It was just them. They felt like it was so important to go that they needed to go.” Gordon and Shughart died in the rescue attempt, but they saved the helicopter pilot. They each received the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award.

“That’s one of those that makes you ask, ‘Where do we find men like that?'” Harrell said. “It wasn’t like they just decided they’d hop off the helicopter and thought that somebody would come to their rescue. We had two helicopters down. We had the capacity to get one. We didn’t have the capacity to get two. They knew what was going on.”

After recovering from his wounds, he was named deputy commander of Delta Force in 1995. On Nov. 25, 2001, he took command of Task Force Bowie and served as the assistant division commander for the 10th Mountain Division during Operation Anaconda.

 

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BREAKING NEWS: ISIS leader Hamza al-Hosi is killed in Syria

ISIS leader Hamza al-Hosi has been killed in Syria in a helicopter raid carried out by US forces.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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How to judge distance​