Screw the ROE, screw political correctness, and screw the asinine pukes in Washington DC who painted a target on SEAL Team Six
Sad About the SEALs? No
 | By Jim ONeill (Bio and Archives) Sunday, August 7, 2011 | Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us |
“A time to love and a time to hate….” Ecclesiastes 3:8
It was like a punch in the gut when I first learned of the death of more then thirty US military personnel—including over twenty SEALs—during a recent operation in Afghanistan. My prayers go out them, and to their families—may God comfort them in their grief.
To say that I am angry would be an understatement. To say that I am infuriated would be an understatement. To say that I am enraged would be an understatement. I am well beyond any of that.
If I was still in the Teams heads would roll—literally. Not in anger, or rage; not in emotional turmoil, but with the same dispassionate, focused intensity with which I would take take out a rabid dog.
It is NOT open season on SEALs—I guarantee you that. Payback should be swift, brutal, and secret. Screw the ROE, screw political correctness, and screw the asinine pukes in Washington DC who painted a target on SEAL Team Six.
There are “targets of opportunity” in Afghanistan and its environs. When I was a SEAL we were not told that we shouldn’t kill someone outside of the field of battle—instead we were given a class in body disposal. The unstated message being “Do what you feel you must—but don’t get caught. Don’t do something stupid.”
I will take that unstated message and spell it out: Do what you think you must, but don’t get caught. No one need know about it—perhaps that would be best. Then again, perhaps you might want to “make a statement.” Your call.
Hooyah.
Born June 4, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Served in the U.S. Navy from 1970-1974 in both UDT-21 (Underwater Demolition Team) and SEAL Team Two. Worked as a commercial diver in the waters off of Scotland, India, and the United States. While attending the University of South Florida as a journalism student in 1998 was presented with the “Carol Burnett/University of Hawaii AEJMC Research in Journalism Ethics Award,” 1st place undergraduate division. (The annual contest was set up by Carol Burnett with money she won from successfully suing a national newspaper for libel). Awarded US Army, US Navy, South African, and Russian jump wings. Graduate of NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School, 1970). Member of Mensa, and lifetime member of the UDT/SEAL Association.
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