[Trapper John]

I sent the article by Linda Robinson to another Brother (career SF just retired and former SF medic classmate). His comments are priceless and I thought I should share them here.

"Yah. It's incredible, but on the other hand, it figures. For decades, SF was the bastard child of the military -- having to scourge, beg, borrow, and steal everything they needed to make missions happen. This was the legacy that you and I were brought up on. This is what was instilled in us by our mentors at Camp Mackall from the very start. Where ever we went, the regular Army treated us with disrespect and suspicion, and whenever SF needed something, they did their best to block it. SF was a career ender for officers who did more than one tour with SOF. TH legs (INCLUDING THE RANGERS!) always wanted to take over SF and "straighten it out." Sorry bastards did not realize that it was the ability to operate at the edges of the envelope that made us great. Legs also feared SF, due to our famous unorthodox methods of getting missions accomplished -- and our ability to always get mission accomplished.

Even asshole Schwarzkopf -- that big fat blustering pansy -- hated SF, until he was forced into a situation in Gulf War I where he directly saw how SF could help him, and where the Press was there to document it so he had to acknowledge SF's deeds.

Now, after these decades of struggling, EVERYONE wants to get on the SOF bandwagon. Everyone wants to be a SF groupie. All officers want to join SOF or have a SOF affiliation. Everyone is ready to tout the virtues of SOF. Everyone is the fucken expert in SOF -- even women liberal Academicians. Everyone is writing about the obvious strength of SOF, as though they are the ones who have just discovered it -- EVEN THOUGH NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN DECADES!

Everyone in bars across the nation want to be a Green Beret -- which is why where ever you go and announce that you were a GB, you will be doubted.

In fact, this "join the SF bandwagon" movement is not incredible; it's not "it figures." It's just plain disgusting.
People! Predictable disingenuous and grovelling behavior.

Makes one want to join the next level of SF -- somewhere closer to the edge of the envelope."