It's funny... the guys who hated it while they were in years later suddenly realize that they can profit from this whole serviceman "franchise" if you will.
They're worse than the guys who never bothered to show up.

Someone's obviously on the right track here.

I've never been involved in any of this caper, nor served in the US Military, but as I indicated earlier, to me, something is distinctly "on the nose" with our most recent Marine and his attempted line of discussion.

There are plenty of other sites that cater to those with over active imaginations where this would go down a treat.

Originally Posted by Spartacus

To the rest of us, this is one of two things:
1) A person who hated military life and left it and now spends his time putting together manuals on how to be an uber badass that can jump out of a moving bradley and take out a sniper. You know those kids who sign up to be a 99N/9999 (Ninja) and barely make it through basic? Yeah, one of those.
2) A probe looking to incite an argument and maybe try to come up with some ideas no how to actually employ a sniper / effective counter-coalition tactics. Maybe its just an OPSEC hyperactivity, but I genuinely dislike the vibes this guy puts out.

Lemme go with the Super Freaky Ninja Ranger, Delta, Seal Operator. I think any probe would be done with more finese and the prober would have at least a fleeting knowledge of tactics.

Only operators can operate at that level of operation.

I don't think he's looking for information, you can get pretty much any military manual or guide on the internet or in print if you look.

Perhaps you are both correct, either way I dont like the vibes I am picking up...

"I have a bad feeling about this one..."

I suggest this is the work of someone of Middle-eastern or North African origin working with a manual or two and a little experience of some kind, perhaps (perhaps not) , attempting to impersonate a Marine. Motive - mischief, here.

This opinion is based upon the concerns I have regarding the use of English.

AHOY, okay what’s really being asked here is am I qualified 2 say t/USMC & SOF r cmbt ready or not.So let me 1st of all qualify my assertion by stating. IMO they r not trained 4 traditional (Guerilla small unit tactics) combat, & I might add there r lots of people who feel t/Corps is not ready 4 t/high tech war either. I’m reading something now abt how many mistakes hqt has made over t/yrs trying 2b nothing more than a small army paling around with t/navy which now has t/Naval expeditionary cmbt cmd. While t/CMC W-R-O-N-G W-A-Y wants t/USMC 2 leave Iraq & concentrate on a land locked Nation. LOL. My opinion abt t/USMC is based on personal experience, with t/other cmbt units SOF etc its based on t/same public info we all see. So let me answer by asking this. If I’m posting 1 solid cmbt rule after another & can truthfully say that I & no 1 around me knew these things when I was on my 1 hit wonder cruse LOL. And I have questioned those serving 2day & get nothing but comments that reveal they r just winging it. Then doesn’t that prove my point. I mean if I was a BAM barred from cmbt & just studied a lot & started asking questions & getting wrong answers 2 them & constantly observed mistake after mistake accruing would anyone say that I did not have t/moral obligation if nothing else 2 reveal this madness? And 2 those that say t/rules go out t/window when t/shooting starts I say only if your training was academic (as in theoretical rather than practical). Major liability look where wikipedia LOL. Most my FMs are WWII era. My English, I’m a slow reader did not learn to read till 12th grade its on my other post blogs. G-day!

Buddy you weren't even a one hit wonder, you'd have to complete an enlistment to be that. So tell us why the Corps sent you down the road doin the seabag drag. Weren't any 2 year enlistments in the 80's, and no early outs.....just cause.

AHOY, Spartacus U don’t know who I am, diddo, t/nature of t/internet 4 t/layman user. Don’t b paranoid t/internet is a joke, there is no wild, wild electronic west out here, they r not among us. It’s all controlled, only those w/knowledge of writing software could even began 2 manipulate t/sys & t/gov knows who all of them r, like t/scientist that study physics. T/secret apprenticeship bk hat is unlikely 2; do 2 t/problem of keeping even t/friendship a secret. Let me ask this how dose a foreign spy hide n t/US when one can’t go inside anywhere w/out being on camera? "Tactics good enough" Yeah t/bear says best is t/weapon of good enough & t/IAF motto I believe is “t/next WW will b won by t/best trained & motivated pilots flying t/simplest of machines. I urge t/USMC 2 heed. 03USMC u take 1 look at my profile c 2 yrs n t/80s (& knowing t/impossibility of me seeing cmbt-- right?) u send PM wanting 2 know why only 2 yrs, then aft a PM form me 2 U it turns n2 my cmbt experience, what’s your cmbt experience GW1? Where u even serving as a grunt n that 1? I respect U knowledge but U speak as if U hv all t/records of t/DON, what was t/official/revealed (as apposed 2 the) actual/kings dates of 1/5 ACB deployments 2 DG? I always got a kick out of every news article, mag, bk author & TV segment using t/date of 1986 (not my yr) as t/1st x any stingers were delivered. & just last yr 4 t/1st x ever they actual mentioned t/Carter administration as starting covert contacts. T/corps 1st 2 fight; t/fact is t/U.S. Army is usually t/1st 2 fight, this has been t/pattern ever since Vietnam: Grenada- USA 1st Panama- USA 1st GWI USA 1st Balkans- USA 1st Afg- USA 1st GWII - USA 1st. This is based on official reveled truth, of overt ops or is it true of covert too, what’s say u 03USMC.

I've been trying to stay out of this discussion, but I think it's gone long enough. Can the mods just lock this thread? It's getting uglier and uglier every page.