My avatar is a tribute to the brave 23 navy seals that stormed Bin Laden's compound but had their lives cut short in a freak helicopter accident . God will judge our enemies we'll arrange the meeting.
The problem with the public perception of Special Forces is that we want to see them as super heroes. We envisage them as men who can leap over tall buildings in a single bound or push a tank backwards with ease. They're all seven feet tall, they're all devilishly handsome and they are all bullet proof. Not a bit of it. They're mortal men just like the rest of us. A bullet will kill them just the same as it will kill you or I. They are human, they are made of flesh and blood and they are therefore fallible. Sometimes they screw up. Carl von Clausewitz, the great Prussian military thinker said "No plan ever survives first contact with the enemy". By that he meant that even the most meticulously planned operation can fall apart if the enemy does something unexpected. Situations are fluid. They change. The man on the ground must adapt, improvise and overcome. But sometimes, it just doesn't come off. There is a lot of gung ho bullshit served up about special forces. Whilst it is true that they are highly trained and equipped to a standard that would make a taxpayers eyes water if the cost of it were presented to them, they're only special in the sense that they are sent to do the jobs that the common soldiery wouldn't be expected to do. It doesn't make them any braver than the grunt who pulls his buddy to safety on the battlefield or the marine who hits the beach under intense enemy fire. I don't know anybody in the special forces and wouldn't treat them any differently to my common-or-garden comrades if I did. We're all supposed to be on the same side, working towards the same end and performing our allotted duties to the best of our ability. The phrase for this is "All Of One Company" and if you've served in the armed forces, you'll know what that means.
Special Boat Services sounds like a firm which de-barnacles your hull, recalibrates your rudder, sharpens your anchor and such like.
i have got some army training, some survival training, martial arts training, hand to hand combat training, some recon and observation training, etc etc
American "special" forces = ****s Korea = lost Nam = lost Afghanistan = lost Iraq = won over 2 legs but still not out of the competition
Ww2 = avation petrol sales NAM= HELICOPTER guns and napalm sales IRaq 1+2 Afghan =petrol and bomb + flash copter/plane sales Bush Cheney etc = winners $
