Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110503/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden_seals" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/201...en_seals</a> Enjoy.
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Originally Posted By Mr X ***a special operations brotherhood that calls itself "the quiet professionals."*** Awesome. Thank you, DD, for the link. Very much appreciated. It's good to know there are excellent folks out there working hard to keep the world safe. And in this case, they managed to track down and take care of enemy #1. Amazing and dangerous work, no doubt!
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 And the best part of it. No other casualities. Nobody from the team. No innocents got in the way. I'd love to know who these guys are but for their safety and that of their families I certainly understand why we can't and won't.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 And I would have just as much confidence if it were the Rangers or any other military unit. Our men and women are just that good.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***CIA Director Leon Panetta was in charge of the military team during the covert operation, a U.S. official said. While the president can empower the SEALs and other counterterrorism units to carry out covert actions without CIA oversight, President Barack Obama's team put the intelligence agency in charge, with other elements of the national security apparatus answering to them for this mission*** This, to me, speaks to President Obama's excellence as CiC, as he's not afraid to take chances and he's not afraid to make the situation work one way or the other and he seems to be commanding all the agencies in a co-ordinated way. Kudos to the President!
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Sorry one more thing. I don't know if the article mentions it but these were the same guys that took out the Somali pirates about a year ago. If it's possible for a straight man to have a man crush on 40 guys, then a man crush I have.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***And the best part of it. No other casualties*** Agreed. ***And I would have just as much confidence if it were the Rangers or any other military unit. Our men and women are just that good*** Agreed. (have you and I EVER agreed twice? lol) IN any case, there is no doubt that the men and women working for our military and CIA are the best of the best...they don't mess around, they do their jobs as best they can always. And this operation is a testament to their collective professionalism, no doubt.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I don't know if the article mentions it but these were the same guys that took out the Somali pirates about a year ago*** The SAME guys? Are you sure? If so, that's way awesome but I hope the media keeps their identities off the radar to say the least in any case.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 RE 11: I either read it in a different article or heard it on the radio.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder It is the same TYPE of people, not the same exact ones that took out the Somali pirates. The name Seal Team Six, which is not what they call themselves, is a bit of a misnomer. There are many of these elite personnel scattered all over the globe, ready to do whatever at a moment's notice. And they're not all men.
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Originally Posted By Longhorn12 I'm still more afraid of the Spetsnaz 15 Hostages 20 Terrorists 35 Body bags Mission Accomplished.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Actually, it was the same unit. It could have been different guys though." Right, which is what I said. There might have been a few people in on Somali that were in on this, but there's no way it was the same exact group.
Originally Posted By Mr X Okay, that makes a lot more sense. In any case, they are all brave heroes to the world, and as Passholder mentioned, ready and willing to get the job done at a moment's notice no matter what it takes.
Originally Posted By fkurucz "It's good to know there are excellent folks out there working hard to keep the world safe." I wish that was true. But the US military exists primarily to protect the financial interests around the world of the super rich.
