05-17-2011, 12:13
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Originally Posted by SFC Donnell
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After reading this thread I started to think about it, after a year in Iraq, I do not believe that I saw a single Green Beanie in that year. We, (us CF Pukes) ended up training and equipping the ICDC ourselves. Should that not have been a SF mission?
Come to think of it I have not seen not heard anything about the SF since the liberation of Afghanistan in 2001. Does the US still have a SF? I am not being a smartass, the SF seems to have dropped off the radar screen.
What was direly predicted several years ago, the end of the SF, has this happened? I just assumed that the SF were just keeping a low profile and that was why I had heard so little. So what is the current situation?
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You can find several examples of our recent successes and failures in Iraq and Afghanistan and beyond throughout this forum and the rest of the internet.
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05-17-2011, 12:24
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...after a year in Iraq, I do not believe that I saw a single Green Beanie in that year.
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Didn't see any of these out there, huh?
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...2g-m4&aql=&oq=
I would've been tempted to wear one of these on ops just to give the Taliban bad dreams. 
Richard 
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05-17-2011, 12:43
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Richard, you are on a roll today!! (I wish you guys had a LOLROTF emtiocon). 
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05-17-2011, 13:02
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After reading this thread I started to think about it, after a year in Iraq, I do not believe that I saw a single Green Beanie in that year. ...Robert
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I think it's pronounced Green Beans...and I thought they were still in Iraq. I know they were in Afghanistan the last time I was there.
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05-17-2011, 13:04
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...and another thing...what's with you reviving long since dormant threads? I think you're now like 3 for 3 or 4 for 4...I'm giving credit for the intro thread.
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05-17-2011, 13:43
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Originally Posted by SFC Donnell
Sirs
After reading this thread I started to think about it, after a year in Iraq, I do not believe that I saw a single Green Beanie in that year. We, (us CF Pukes) ended up training and equipping the ICDC ourselves. Should that not have been a SF mission?
Come to think of it I have not seen not heard anything about the SF since the liberation of Afghanistan in 2001. Does the US still have a SF? I am not being a smartass, the SF seems to have dropped off the radar screen.
What was direly predicted several years ago, the end of the SF, has this happened? I just assumed that the SF were just keeping a low profile and that was why I had heard so little. So what is the current situation?
Robert
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Everybody's doin' black ops, now. The SEALS get the CNN shit.
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05-17-2011, 14:06
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Originally Posted by SFC Donnell
Sirs
After reading this thread I started to think about it, after a year in Iraq, I do not believe that I saw a single Green Beanie in that year. We, (us CF Pukes) ended up training and equipping the ICDC ourselves. Should that not have been a SF mission?
Come to think of it I have not seen not heard anything about the SF since the liberation of Afghanistan in 2001. Does the US still have a SF? I am not being a smartass, the SF seems to have dropped off the radar screen.
What was direly predicted several years ago, the end of the SF, has this happened? I just assumed that the SF were just keeping a low profile and that was why I had heard so little. So what is the current situation?
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Like HEAD said.. Look around; SF is everywhere in the News. You just don't look closely enough I think. As the way I look at it, I don't want to be in the news. Don't tell of what I'm (we) doing in this shit hole or that place. We deploy and train people to hunt the enemy for us. To kick in those doors for their news not for CNN or FOX News.
SF has been doing a lot in Iraq you just don't know of it. Iraqi Conventional Force are the boy Scouts in most military thinking groups. Speed bumps for other to jump over.
You need to search more (top right) on PS.com and lurk around reading more.
You can go here.. http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...splay.php?f=38
or here.. http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...splay.php?f=42
or read an area study before you deploy. Believe us it helps out knowing what your getting into.
Thanks for join and looking around.
Start here.... http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...play.php?f=106
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05-17-2011, 14:13
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Personally, Richard, I prefer...
If anyone can get Dusty in that and take a pic, I would pay big money....or double triple stuffed oreos!
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I'm in. 
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05-17-2011, 16:01
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If anyone can get Dusty in that and take a pic, I would pay big money....or double triple stuffed oreos!
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Dusty wants to know where you found his 'green beanie'...and he wants it back ASAP! 
Richard
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05-17-2011, 17:27
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Originally Posted by SFC Donnell
Sirs
After reading this thread I started to think about it, after a year in Iraq, I do not believe that I saw a single Green Beanie in that year. We, (us CF Pukes) ended up training and equipping the ICDC ourselves. Should that not have been a SF mission?
Come to think of it I have not seen not heard anything about the SF since the liberation of Afghanistan in 2001. Does the US still have a SF? I am not being a smartass, the SF seems to have dropped off the radar screen.
What was direly predicted several years ago, the end of the SF, has this happened? I just assumed that the SF were just keeping a low profile and that was why I had heard so little. So what is the current situation?
Robert
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If your not trying to be a smartass why these asinine statements?......... 
Big Teddy
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SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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05-17-2011, 17:33
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If your not trying to be a smartass why these asinine statements?
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Teddy,
It's obvious...
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Come to think of it I have not seen not heard anything about the SF since the liberation of Afghanistan in 2001.
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PDRL for being blind and deaf.
Richard
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05-17-2011, 19:43
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Low profile....
Gentlemen
Thank all of you for the answers.
I am going to have to call you guys out on the term Treadhead which I see on this site from time to time, we prefer: "Dumb Ass Tanker" or "DAT" for short, thank you. We are not actually dumb asses just hard of hearing and myopic. Outside my area of expertise, I don't know much, just asking.
As for not seeing the SF, I went from seeing the 10th Group every day at Ft. Devens to not hearing a peep for years. For example LANG's 225th Engineers served well and honorably in Desert Storm only to be all but disbanded after the war, likewise the 2-63AR was disbanded after a very successful tour of duty in Iraq. The Army does have a way of doing rather silly things. After reading this thread, I began to wonder if the dire predictions were coming true.
The fact that I had not heard much lately is in fact a testament to these men. Now I understand the term: "Quiet Professional."
Robert
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05-17-2011, 21:35
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...I have not seen not heard anything about the SF since.....
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"Quiet" and "Professional".
Have a very "SF" day.
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06-09-2011, 08:50
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Late 60's and early 70's
In the late 60's and 70's the Armed Forces as a whole lost favor with many in this country. S.F. was sort of looked on by the standard military in a un savory way (jealously). We didn't have a quartermaster at that time. We had no trucks or motor pool. All of that changed as S.F was reabsorbed into the main military establishment. Money for school was short; money to get trainings was short. When members came back from a school, they would cross train the ones needing training. Detachments from active S.F. would train the Guard. At that time a Full Flash said you were S.F. qualified. There were many correspondences courses to take when you could not get active training. A good many our people had made one or more tours in Southeast Asia. We were trained by these folks. Many did not have a full flash just because the money was not there. With Iraq and Afghanistan cooling off looks for the money to stop flowing. The money may not have been there but we received world class training anyway. S.F. will always have the best resources. The S.F. Troopers.
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06-24-2011, 16:40
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Things wax.
Things wane.
It has always been thus, Grasshopper.
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