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2011-08-08 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-08 10:43|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Lieutenant General Dennis Hejlik, the former head of the Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command - the last of the service branches to be incorporated into SOCOM in 2006 - indicated, for instance, that he foresees a doubling of his former unit of 2,600.

That's if he can continue to hire enough former 18's contractors out of Bragg to work at Quantico and provide the necessary training and career development.

"I see them as a force someday of about 5,000, like equivalent to the number of SEALs that we have on the battlefield. Between [5,000] and 6,000,"

Telling statement I'd say.

SOF has become a TOOL of OGA, who will eventually turn on them. Expansion is not about mission, it's about DOLLARS! Just my humble opinion.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-08 11:28|| 2011-08-08 11:28|| Front Page Top

#2 One of its key components is the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, a clandestine sub-command whose primary mission is tracking and killing suspected terrorists. Reporting to the president and acting under his authority, JSOC maintains a global hit list that includes US citizens. It has been operating an extra-legal "kill/capture" campaign that John Nagl, a past counterinsurgency adviser to four-star general and soon-to-be CIA Director David Petraeus, calls "an almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine".

Has that certain Al Jizz hyperbole and bias that one usually expects from Al Jazeera.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-08-08 14:05|| 2011-08-08 14:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Born of a failed 1980 raid to rescue American hostages in Iran, in which eight US service members died

Not exactly. The concept of a unified command for special ops has been around for sometime, e.g. SOG during the Viet war.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-08-08 14:11|| 2011-08-08 14:11|| Front Page Top

#4 an almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine -- GOOD!

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-08 14:22|| 2011-08-08 14:22|| Front Page Top

#5 JSOC maintains a global hit list that includes US citizens

Which would include anyone with the sobriquet "al-Amriki" and that Yemeni prodigy (although admittedly he's gotten a bit long in the tooth for prodigy status) Anwar al-Awlaki, imam to the Pantibomber, Faisl the Fizzle Bomber, and Maj. Dr. Hassan, the convicted paraplegic. I have to admit I don't have a problem with this.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-08 15:14|| 2011-08-08 15:14|| Front Page Top

#6 I have to admit I don't have a problem with this.

Yeah, what she said. If you are going to make war on your country, don't whine like a little girl when your country makes war on you.

Posted by SteveS 2011-08-08 19:00|| 2011-08-08 19:00|| Front Page Top

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