I posted a piece on May 18th about military special operations and criminality. My friend Don Albares, himself a veteran of special operations, then posted in reply with a picture of Marshall Brown—a former member of Delta Force (real name: 1st Special Forces Detachment—Delta), who became momentarily famous as a serial rapist who used some of his skills for a jailbreak.
I love your book full spectrum disorder! I read it as I was getting out of the army almost a decade ago and it was hugely impactful. A question for you though: I know you identify as a pacifist but I cannot see any way other than the use of violence to ever actually challenge the power of the ruling class. Theyve demonstrated how entrenched they are and I do not see any viable alternatives to creating social change. So what do you see as the alternative that will actually stand a chance at producing results?
Shit brother, I had almost forgotten about Terry (it would appear my memory is going as fast as my knees and back). He came out of 2nd Batt, right? B Co maybe? I worked with a few guys from there standing up the first LRS unit at Lewis - E Co, 60th.
Got it. The B Co guys I met were really helpful in putting together a new TOE - there was one really tall SFC that had gone from LRRPs to N Co, 173rd in VN, then to Group, then to 2nd Bn...helped us flesh out a path for LRS 11Bs who'd be under an Intel Bn. There was one guy that was all pants on fire about the 2nd Bn War Dance. (WTF?) Everybody had to have a tab and they wanted them to go through that Recondo school they ran on the other side of the old railroad tracks...except that course got shut down a year earlier. By then I was on my way to points south.
The result you are looking for, and for which I once looked, is not possible.
I love your book full spectrum disorder! I read it as I was getting out of the army almost a decade ago and it was hugely impactful. A question for you though: I know you identify as a pacifist but I cannot see any way other than the use of violence to ever actually challenge the power of the ruling class. Theyve demonstrated how entrenched they are and I do not see any viable alternatives to creating social change. So what do you see as the alternative that will actually stand a chance at producing results?
Shit brother, I had almost forgotten about Terry (it would appear my memory is going as fast as my knees and back). He came out of 2nd Batt, right? B Co maybe? I worked with a few guys from there standing up the first LRS unit at Lewis - E Co, 60th.
Terry, Graham Giles, and I were all in Alpha Company, 2nd Bn. Alphabots, they called us. (-;
Got it. The B Co guys I met were really helpful in putting together a new TOE - there was one really tall SFC that had gone from LRRPs to N Co, 173rd in VN, then to Group, then to 2nd Bn...helped us flesh out a path for LRS 11Bs who'd be under an Intel Bn. There was one guy that was all pants on fire about the 2nd Bn War Dance. (WTF?) Everybody had to have a tab and they wanted them to go through that Recondo school they ran on the other side of the old railroad tracks...except that course got shut down a year earlier. By then I was on my way to points south.