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Umm, forgive me Mr. Sigaba, but: King Neptune, and Davey Jones and Mini The Mermaid.
The national waters of a given country off the coast are marked. Inland is determined by how far a SEAL can go, and by morning on an "easy day", that can be quite a distance.  |
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Why are the SEAL’s publicizing themselves to this degree?
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Because American navalism trumps the board.
As Henry Stimson reflected on the many interservice issues between the army and the navy during the Second World War and subsequent discussions of unification:
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. . . some of the Army-Navy troubles. . . grew mainly from the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true church.*
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Maybe I'm just tired from too much fun and a lack of sleep. Maybe I'm just pissed off because a friend died. Maybe I'm just tired of 'newbies' here interjecting crap that really doesn't need to be interjected, but:
WTF are you talking about? Intelligent people are having a discussion about a topic of some concern to those in the SOF community, that being people who should know better shooting their mouths off when they should STFU. This bozo, and he IS a bozo, is the latest in a string of those doing that. It just seems the most recent are all SEALs. Intelligent people, and SF prides itself on recruiting intelligent people, often expand topics with relevant information.
I felt Sigaba's post did just that. I failed to see reference to "Davey Jones" or "Mini the Mermaid" in his post. I saw a quote from a prominent figure in the history of the defense establlishment of this nation that was germane to the question posed by an SF Candidate. How this response helps clarify the SF Candidate's question also mystifies me:
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Because many of them are getting chewed up on inland missions in The Sandbox and other areas doing their job, and like other services, there is a need for more SOFs.
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Only after the upper echelon has already gone public. Guess we have to wait for the book.
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How does the casualty rate justify violating certain principles about keeping one's mouth shut?
How does what the "upper echelon" does justify what the "author" does, or I do, or you do?
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And the tan, QP Billy L-bach.
The next quietest groups, IMHO, are "on deck."
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Well, it just reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBPXUurumDU