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2010-05-16 Home Front: Politix

Where do defamed SEALS go to get their reputations back?

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Posted by ryuge 2010-05-16 10:11|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Which office do these brave men go to to get their reputations back?

Step One: Walk into any businessmen's restaurant in Houston or Dallas.

Steo Two: Announce loudly that you are one of the SEALs who got prosecuted for being too mean to a terrorist

Step Three: Don't forget to duck when the job offers come at you like they were shot out of a friggin' cannon.

Posted by Matt 2010-05-16 12:29|| 2010-05-16 12:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Nope, nope nope, They are sure to be back at their team in Damneck getting caught up with the boys and families. As for the folks that pushed and allowed the trial to go on??? The witch hunt will quietly remove them all from service...

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-05-16 12:31|| 2010-05-16 12:31|| Front Page Top

#3 ...instead of earning distinction for capturing a terrorist who butchered four Americans, they will forever be known as the three SEALs who faced courts-martial for beating a detainee and lying to cover it up.

The verdict was Not Guilty for all three.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-16 12:33|| 2010-05-16 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Sadly enough, the typical SEAL has the career life expectancy of a fruit fly, no matter what happens, peace or war.

This is why one tour with elite forces is very good for the promotion track, but two or three, tops, usually means the end of it. They peak at age 30 and it is downhill from there, at least as far as the personnel command is concerned.

That is why in wartime, their time is so valuable. Everybody else is just doing their job, but every moment elite forces are not on mission, they are being wasted.

These three, while acquitted, are back to the regular Navy, where office politics will probably matter more than their respectable reputations.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-16 13:34|| 2010-05-16 13:34|| Front Page Top

#5 I guess I don't get that. It takes some substantial effort and time to train a SEAL, and I just assumed they'd do several tours in the elite force. The Navy would want to get maximum return on its investment, after all. I don't get why a single tour is best.

Posted by Steve White 2010-05-16 15:26|| 2010-05-16 15:26|| Front Page Top

#6 me neither - I'd think 30-36 or so would be optimal physical skillz/smarts/decision-making time

Posted by Frank G 2010-05-16 15:29|| 2010-05-16 15:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Nope, nope, nope to all of you. Me -- I'll take 49 Pan's opinion.

Posted by Sherry 2010-05-16 19:58|| 2010-05-16 19:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Difference between this case and Donovan's sad situation is that nobody thought these guys were guilty.
Some of the lefties claimed it, but they knew better.
No reputation problem here.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2010-05-16 20:29|| 2010-05-16 20:29|| Front Page Top

#9 To Maj. Gen. Charles Cleveland:

Resign and regain some honor, or be seen as the gutless BITCH that you have become.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-05-16 21:49|| 2010-05-16 21:49|| Front Page Top

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