Sorry I didnt see this earlier, Im actually coming from Fort Jackson and Im currently at Fort Lee dropping off my son from Boot Camp to AIT here at Fort Lee.
Since we havent really talked, let me be the first to say hello, and very nice to meet you. Im also going to give you a very brief bio so not as to toot my horn, but to give you and idea that possibly, myself and a few others here may know a thing or two about military stuff besides all the porn we watch overseas, bad tattoos we got and ex-wives we have to show for it.
I joined the Marines in 1986, took the Recon Indoc 9x before I passed, yea, you read that right, 9x. At one point I actually learned to swim. Who knew that the word "Marine" was synonymous with water?... Jarheads need to know how to swim apparently. I was a Marine for 14 years, saw action in South American doing Drug Interdiction, Philippines in 1989 (Operation Classic Resolve, bet ya never heard of that one have ya?) during the coup in Desert Shield/Storm, operation Restore Hope in Somalia, Operation Joint Endeavor in Bosnia as a UN Observer, From there I left the Marines and was a government contractor from 2003 to 2008 in Iraq and Afghanistan. I specialize in Counter IED operations and Humint (Human Intelligence Collections) Then I rejoined the military iin the Army and I participated as a soldier in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Freedom Eagle (back to the Philippines again) I currently work in the special operations community but now I work as a Psychological Operations Tactical Detachment. If you dont know what that is, we're those guys that go out with ODA's, Seal Teams, MarSoc, JSOC, ect..dressed as the local population and convince bad guys to become good guys.. or convince good guys to act like bad guys so we can find other bad guys, We do some off the wall shit. When I say we play mind games, we have more games than Milton Bradley... and none of them are fun for the players when we always win. So, that being said, I AM NOT saying im all that and a bag of chips, Im just saying that the military offered me a chance to travel, and do what I was trained to do, as with many here.
I can tell you with pretty solid authority, that the there was no "Secret Deployments" anywhere from Korea, from ANY Cav unit, 4/7 or 5/7. Now.. if he wants to talk about people he knew, ask him names. The reason I say this, I knew the PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Team) group that got killed by that IED (It wasnt in a HumVee, it was a MRAP) SSgt. Christopher Ward, Sgt. Delfin Santos Jr., and Cpl. Wilbel Robles Santa. The three were part of the PRT’s security detail who was Anne Smedinghoff, she was a 25-year-old Foreign Service Officer. (dont ask, its a long story how I know this) Anyways, Just throwing that out there. Tell him this little nugget, the Army is a very small community, we all know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody. He may have known them, he may have not, but if he knew them, he sure as hell knows their names. Just Sayin.
Respectfully,
SFx3
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