Posted: 4/2/2007 4:40:41 PM EDT
This is unbelievable.
Let that asshole know how you feel about his article. 
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Navy SEALs are pissed off, namely, my friend I got this from. YMMV. 
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I'm quite certain that wherever this was published unedited, our enemies have the resources to find it without trolling arfcom for posts on the topic. Just putting the first sentence into Google and clicking "I'm feeling lucky" gave me the article. I'm all for opsec, but "that ain't this" as they say. |
gotta agree with that. I was like WTF you are editing the story for arfcom because we are terrorists? Well gee, I feel the same way about you...  
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If you're serious about this, then you might want to remove the email addy of the guy who wrote the article thats on the bottom in yellow. A quick google search brought up the article in its entirety with no edits. |
Jeezuz h christ. I know it's out there, I know you can find it with a quick search, I know blah blah blah. Would you like me to make it even easier and become part of the fucking problem? Has anyone besides me emailed this guy and told hime what a POS he is? Has anyone emailed his employer? Shit. The reason I posted this is: operators are pissed off about it and I thought you might just be willing to write this guy and his employer and tell them what YOU THINK ABOUT IT! The reason I edited it was because this is the largest firearms board on the net and I don't think making it easier to find is a good idea even though it is available elswhere. |
What in the hell are we supposed to say? How dare you allow your writer to publish numbers given out on the .gov/.mil's own websites, during their press releases, and on c-span? How dare you say JSOC is getting stretched a bit thin and run a bit ragged? Come on man. |
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If your going to be pissed off, be pissed off at the 'military officer' who opened his mouth. I really don't know much about what is secret and what is not, but I'd guess that much or most of the edited stuff can be picked up from the regular news agencies or unclassified military documents. If the numbers and such are classified, then the guy who spilled the beans should be brought up on charges. Is that happening? |
OK, nevermind. I'll just tell my SEAL friends guys like you don't give a shit. I thought you'd care. They are actually quite upset.
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I think I met him at the last fun show up here. 
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Then tell them to tell their COs to stop giving out their numbers and locations, thats where the problem is. 
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Fine, you go and tell your "SEAL friends" just how you were able to be all indignant when us arfcommers pointed out your lame attempts at OPSEC on an openly avalible article and then also had the gall to point out that the true fault lies with morons in the govt. or military who were dumbass enough to tell a reporter these numbers to begin with. When a reporter gets info, they print it. They are not beholden to anybody to follow certian rules of information to disseminate or not. The idiot with the security clearance who gave out the numbers needs an ass kicking, not the reporter who probably figures that all the info they get from the mil/govt. is all intentionally skewed to begin with so he has no problem printing it simply because he expects it to already have been approved for release. I'm not going to write a letter to a frikken newspaper reporter when the problem that needs to be addressed lies within your very own "SEAL friends" chain of command. sheesh. The numbers are wrong anyways, so I don't know what the big deal is. |
Seems like a REAL failure to communicate going on around here Most of us would probably give our left nut(literally)to be a SEAL 
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 1) I only have one nut and its my left one, no way Im giving it up just to be a BLANK (anything). 2) Every scammer in North America uses the word Navy Seals. If you want me to not pay attention, just utter those two words, stamp them on your product, etc.. 3) Everytime I think of the Navy in general, I think of KA3B and/or the Village People. |
I would, im sorry but when some guy decides to pull the navy seal card I have to I have met one in my life and he wouldnt even tell me what he did much less would I talk about it or bring it up. They are all people just like you and me.
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Can you swim ten miles? I can't neither. 
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Yeah, like I said, MOST of us
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I've met and worked with a few SEALS(active duty) myself, I think I have an idea of just what kind of people they are. Thanks for the heads up though that they are just regular folks though.....I guess I hadn't figured that out yet....
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