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2006-04-23 Home Front: WoT
Fred's hunter-killer teams finally coming into being?
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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-23 05:26|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Fred's? Odd, Dan, I don't recall even one instance of Fred openly advocating hunter-killer teams. Not that he doesn't approve of it, but accuracy begs the question.
Posted by Angeresh Elmosing6522 2006-04-23 05:47||   2006-04-23 05:47|| Front Page Top

#2 When SOCOM first dispatched military liaison teams abroad starting in 2003, they were called "Operational Control Elements," a term changed last year because "it raised the hackles of regional commanders and ambassadors. It was a bad choice of language," said one defense official, adding: "Who can pick on Military Liaison Elements?"

Look, you can issue them calico uniforms and call them "Great Aunt Florence Elements" for all I care, just go whack bad guys already!
Posted by Mike 2006-04-23 07:38||   2006-04-23 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 

It was .com that used to call for hunter-killer teams. And rightly so. We should givr them back some of that old fashioned terror they love so much.

Posted by Manolo 2006-04-23 07:50||   2006-04-23 07:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Kinda sorta sounds like what the CIA should be doing if they weren't too busy trying to overthrow the American government.
Posted by SteveS 2006-04-23 09:23||   2006-04-23 09:23|| Front Page Top

#5 The first step is to gain entry into a denied or hostile environment. President Carter castrated the agencies ability to conduct operations of that type many years ago. Their primary focus has been almost entirely centered upon WMD since the Carter years. A culture of pipe smoking, low risk-no risk tweed jacketed, DoD despising, accedemic grey beard thinkers has evolved.

"It's Saddam's two mobile WMD trailers secretary Powell, show them the slides, the slides, it's WMD I tell you. I'm the DCID, it's what we do, I know! I know!
Posted by Besoeker 2006-04-23 11:24||   2006-04-23 11:24|| Front Page Top

#6 'bout damn time for hunter-killer teams to be setup. Or they could be called headhunting teams. They would go after heads of cells or regional leaders.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-04-23 11:28||   2006-04-23 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 while I agree that this is a good way to go, I hope they don't have their hands tied by alot of political crap.
Any warrior putting his life on the line shouldn't be withheld from completing the job.
If they do take anyone alive I hope they keep it from the public so they can interogate them without the politically correct attitude of pencil pushers getting in the way.
Posted by Jan 2006-04-23 12:02||   2006-04-23 12:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Hola Presidente!
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-04-23 12:23||   2006-04-23 12:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I've been advocating it since at least this episode, in October 2003. And I'd mentioned it a time or two before that.

By the way, I still stand by everything I said in the article.
Posted by Fred 2006-04-23 13:56||   2006-04-23 13:56|| Front Page Top

#10 They could be called Mosque Sanitation Squads. That's where the problems start, so let's sanitize.
Posted by wxjames 2006-04-23 15:49||   2006-04-23 15:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Gives "reach out and touch someone" a more 'tangible' aspect, no?

Heh!
Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-04-23 16:00||   2006-04-23 16:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Let's be careful about this: it would be real easy for two problems to come about:

1) the teams slip their rules of engagement, or someone above them changes their RoE, so that we start killing people we shouldn't be killing.

2) there's any number of REMF's who would hang the teams out to dry for a corner office. After the news just in the last couple days about Mary McCarthy, we should be very careful about ensuring that the teams are never used as sacrificial lambs, either politically or out in real life.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2006-04-23 16:08||   2006-04-23 16:08|| Front Page Top

#13 we should be very careful about ensuring that the teams are never used as sacrificial lambs, either politically or out in real life.
AGREED.
They would be below pond scum enemies if they did
Posted by Jan 2006-04-23 16:55||   2006-04-23 16:55|| Front Page Top

#14 maybe it's time to raise the punishment for leaking this info
I'm ready to have them put to death for these leaks putting others lives at risk
Posted by Jan 2006-04-23 16:57||   2006-04-23 16:57|| Front Page Top

#15 SW - read Clancy, huh?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-04-23 17:11||   2006-04-23 17:11|| Front Page Top

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