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2019-12-04 Home Front: Politix

Our father helped found the future Navy SEALs. His vision didn't include Edward Gallagher.

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Meghan McCain has new pals?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-04 01:55|| 2019-12-04 01:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Please STFU.

Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2019-12-04 02:07|| 2019-12-04 02:07|| Front Page Top

#3 An old colleague of mine reaffirmed his support for the former USN SEAL saying "Gallagher's only crime was that he failed to kill them all!"

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-04 02:08|| 2019-12-04 02:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Is it just me or does this writer seem confused, in a bid to point at some hypothetical standard the good Rear Adm. would have judged today's soldiers.

We also have no doubt that he would have resigned in protest of this debasement of the high standards

I think the man would have resigned long before, when the USA didn't bomb Pakistan for harboring Bin Laden. But how germane is that to our current realities. There's a battle of civilizations on. We can't nitpick and destroy our buddies over trifles like this, the bloody enemy plays football with heads for fuck's sake !

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-04 02:14|| 2019-12-04 02:14|| Front Page Top

#5 remaining blind to his own misdeeds

When one begins to compartmentalize as a survival coping mechanism.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-04 05:30|| 2019-12-04 05:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Trophy hunting as been around forever...

Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2019-12-04 10:14|| 2019-12-04 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Our father, Rear Adm. Draper Kauffman, was the founder of the training school for the Navy underwater demolition teams (UDTs) that became the Navy SEALs. His heroic bomb-disposal actions at Pearl Harbor led to the creation of ‐ and be among the first to survive ‐ "Hell Week," the grueling five-day test of SEAL candidates that continues to challenge the strongest men our country has to offer and is still described as among the most difficult military training in the world.

This is a kennel's worth of dog shit. I'm not saying SEALs are not bad ass, but this is like a vegan explaining why vegans are vegans.

Please correct me if I am wrong; Kauffman cut his teeth during the London Blitz. UDT cut their teeth during the Guam campaign. The SEAL as we know it is post Vietnam.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-04 10:50|| 2019-12-04 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Just another dose of BABBLING "MALE BOVINE SCATOLOGY SCRIPTOLOGY"! IMO, from another that knows NOTHING of what they babble about!

Posted by ranture 2019-12-04 10:56|| 2019-12-04 10:56|| Front Page Top

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