60 Minutes follows Navy SEALs in Afghanistan

What's amazing about this video is that the SEALs are pretty paranoid about publicity (Not as paranoid than Delta-when's the last time you ever heard anything about them?). This reporter has some amazing access with her camera, following them on ops in A-Stan. Well-balanced and informative. Check it out.

Pic of the Day March 13th 2007 When Special Forces Goes Wrong Edition

Ahhh the merry men of Special Forces. Truly the elite. Or As Will Smith put it in Men In Black "The Best of the best of the best!" These hale professionals have many responsibilities. One of them is to demonstrate their elite talents for dignitaries, politicos and civilians once in a while. To let the unwashed masses see what the 'Special' in Special Forces is all about. To bask in the glow of their otherworldly talents; to peek inside their world and glimpse the greatest warriors in the world doing what they do best.

Then you get shit like this. I hope to God this is a picture taken by ruthless, mocking teammates in a training scenario. If this was in front of a bunch of generals, this poor sunnofabitch was problably drummed out of whatever unit he was in. What WTF is up with the tighty-blackys underwear? How did this dude extricate himself from this shit? He's fucking rappeling down a building with his pants around his ankles!

Here's what this bitch-ass, trick-ass little disgrace SHOULD have said in his press conference today...

Thank you everybody for coming today. I have a statement that I would like to read. As all of you know, I did not accompany my unit for deployment to fight in Iraq. First I told you guys that I believed the war was illegal and that's why I was confined to base, hanging around headquarters like a Two-Dollar basehead waiting for a trick. But today I would like to tell you the truth. And the truth is...I'm a just a little biatch. I'm literally and figuratively a YELLOW coward. You may find it ironic that a asian man is calling himself 'yellow' but it's a double-entrende, since my back is as yellow as Benedict Arnold's.

Yes, I refused to go to Iraq with my platoon of soldiers that counted on me for my leadership. And yes I admit I accepted a commission and I accepted a promotion to 1st LT, and I accepted a posting to a infantry, combat unit. But that doesn't mean shit to a back-slider like myself. I know now that I should have never joined a profession that uses words like Duty, Honor, Country. I mean, do they use words like that in like, you know, regular jobs? I don't think so. And I do not appreciate being called names like punk, pogue, trick, pillow-biter, traitor, mark, rat-bastard, shithouse lawyer, bitch-ass punk, trick-ass mark, fucking goddamn rat bastard or any other combination thereof. I mean grow the hell up people. I have to look out for all the rest of the Army, all 99.9% of them that have not realized the truth like I have. This whole Army, guns, death business in the Middle East is not what I signed up for. The daily reports of carnage and mayhem in Iraq is exactly the kind of stuff that I can change, back here in the rear, with the gear-so to speak. You can be I intend to disgrace err...speak-out on the illegal war out there. I am going to fight this court-martial as hard as my former platoon is probably fighting in Iraq. Thank you.

Is this some crazy shit or what? This motherfucker deserves anything he wants

I don't even have words to describe this story. Pretty funny too.


Subject: Letter from the Afghan Front
2/4/2007 12:21:05 AM

Hi everyone.

I'm still alive but freezing my tail off. We got 8 inches of snow last week and it reached 5 degrees below zero that night. That's not why I'm e-mailing though.
You may have heard about a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul last Thursday. It was at one of our FOB's (Forward Observation Bases) about 27 miles from here.
But the real story is why no one was killed.
We employ several thousand Afghans on our various bases. Not to mention the economy that is fed by the money these locals are making. Some are laborers and builders, but some are skilled workers. We even have one Afghan that just became OSHA qualified, the first ever. Some are skilled HVAC workers.
Anyway, there is this one Afghan that we call Rambo. We have actually given him a couple of sets of the new ACU uniforms (the new Army digital camouflage) with the name tag RAMBO on it. His entire family was killed by the Taliban and his home was where our base currently resides. So this guy really had nowhere else to go. He has reached such a level of trust with US Forces that his job is to stand at the front gate and basically be the first security screening. Since he can't have a weapon, he found a big red pipe. So he stands there at the front gate in his US Army ACU uniform with his red pipe. If a vehicle approaches the gate too fast or fails to stop he slams his pipe down on their hood. Then once the gate is lifted the vehicle moves on the 2nd gate where the US Army MP's are. So he's like the first line of defense. Last Thursday at 0930 hrs a Toyota Corolla packed with explosives and some Jack Ass that thinks he has 72 Virgins waiting for him approached the gate.
When he saw Rambo he must have recognized him and known the gig was up.
But he needed to get to that 2nd gate to detonate and take American
lives. So he slams his foot on the gas which almost causes the metal gate to go up but mostly catches on the now broken windshield. Rambo fearlessly ran to the vehicle, reached thru the window and jerked the suicide bomber out of the vehicle before he could detonate and commenced to putting some red pipe to his
heathen ass.
He detained the guy until the MP got there.
The vehicle only exploded when they tried to push it off base with a robot but know one was hurt.
I'm still waiting for someone to give this guy a medal or something. Nothing less than instant US citizenship or something. A hat was passed around and a lot of money was given to him in thanks by both soldiers and
civilians that are working over here. I guess I just wanted to share this because I want people to know that it's working over here. They have tasted freedom. This makes it worth it to me.

JOHN, CPT , US ARMY

Afghanstan is a place that many of us could only imagine in our dreams. Alot of good is being done over there. I hope that Rambo is taken care of.

Pic of the Day-Jan 31

When you got into a bird, the pilots didn't say shit to you, you were lucky if you even saw them. It was the enlisted crew that told you what to do. This pretty much sums it up nicely. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Did Reuters fuck with this picture too?

/start sarcasm

Some Joes in Iraq, terrorizing the the population again. Those fucking stormtroopers have no shame. Those Iraqi people are probably just trying to cross this bridge when Dubya's running-dog-Gestapo-US Army thugs ran up on them and probably start demanding money or food or probably sexual favors from the woman. They are obviously terrified. There are probably 20 other soldiers pointing their weapons at them, forcing them to smile at gunpoint, it's sickening. Thank God we have photographic proof of this criminal shit going on over there. It was probably a Reuters photographer who bravely took this Pulitzer Prize worthy pic. Those guys are known for their journalistic integrity and courage. Bring our soldiers home so me and my cronies..err fellow-activists can mock...err speak to them!

/end sarcasm

Seriously, all you Joes serving this country of ours, keep up the good work. As Drill Sergeant Blossom said "Stay Alert, Stay Alive"

Pic of the Day-Jan 25

WTF? Between the eight of these guys and all the medals they have been rewarded, you would think they conquered the galaxy or some shit. Fucking Commies.