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Subject: An apology to Braddock
Old Grunt    1/20/2006 3:09:04 PM
I never thought that it would happen but it has. I guess you really do have influence with the Department of Defense, or at least the Department of the Army. Just a few weeks ago you were lamenting that the oportunity for you to be a part of the Special Forces community was just not available and how you would jump at the chance if it became possible. I guess some of your influential friends here at the Pentagon heard you because just a few days later the Army raised the age limit for enlistment to 40 in order to accomodate your wish! You are now eligible to enlist as an 18X!! Man, you must be beside yourself with joy! When do you plan on going down to the recruiting station? I mean, you have the required GT score, experience and skills right? And with all the mentoring that you've gotten from "Green Berets" passing the screening tests should be a breeze for you! After all, the best way to influence the "Green Beret" community is to get assigned to USASOC headquarters and they only pull their staff from the operational community which, of course, you already knew. From there you can move to USSOCOM headquarters and have direct influence across the services. A man of your ability should be able to get assigned to the Pentagon staff after only three or four years of operational time. I wouldn't be surprised if you have already been down to the station! I mean, after all, you have assured us all time and again that you are a man of integrity and that you don't lie. And I know that you wouldn't be so superficial, selfish, and petty as to put the well being of yourself and your family above the welfare of the Nation who so desperately needs you. I would expect a lesser man to try and give some lame excuse for why he wasn't going to take advantage of the fantastic opportunity that he had been given, but not you!! I am so excited for you that you have finally been given your chance to show the world what you are really made of! Please keep us informed of your progress, I'm sure the other posters on this board will join me in congratulating you on receiving which you have so many times stated you wished you could get!
 
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Old Grunt    RE:Self dicipline.....   1/23/2006 9:03:50 AM
Done. I know how the story will end.
 
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BraddockCaesar    RE:Self dicipline.....   1/23/2006 9:22:14 AM
Old Grunt Then you are truly blessed.
 
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lrsrng    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/23/2006 10:04:17 AM
A picture of Braddock demonstrating his superior military freefall skills http://www.skydiveworld.com/gallery/espen_nov00.jpg
 
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Horsesoldier    RE: Reality   1/23/2006 10:49:32 AM
>>I have never suggested that I knew more than any other Green Beret. However, concerning strategy and tactics, I am the best in the country. The fringe benefit of anyone who realizes this level of competency and dominance, is the existence of a set of extraordinarily developed ascertainment capabilities concerning the facultative elements of war.<< I find it remarkably amusing that the above tripe was found under a subject line reading "Reality" . . .
 
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BraddockCaesar    RE: Reality   1/23/2006 11:01:40 AM
Horse Soldier Your responses should be under 'denial.'
 
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Horsesoldier    RE: Reality   1/23/2006 11:51:05 AM
>>Your responses should be under 'denial.' << Braddock, don't take this the wrong way, but an overuse injury sustained to a thesaurus does not constitute any semblance of understanding tactics or strategy, much less providing cogent and meaningful analysis or advancement of theory for either.
 
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shek    RE:An apology to Braddock - HS   1/23/2006 11:57:03 AM
Horsesoldier, Have you read some of Braddock's older work? -He wants SOF to lead IED sweeps. -He wants all buildings to be cleared bottom-up and top-down at the same time. -He thinks S-2s can provide exact building characteristics prior to raids to determine the SDZs for ricochets. His own work demonstrates his tactical ineptitude, not to mention his failed strategies of trying to discredit posters that clearly have more experience in areas that he claims competence. While pointing out that smoke and mirrors (i.e. using a thesauraus) doesn't make substance is great, all you need to do is to pick from his works to show his foundation of quicksand.
 
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Horsesoldier    RE:An apology to Braddock - HS   1/23/2006 1:06:51 PM
I've not looked over his efforts earlier than the last month or so, but those are certainly some *quality* proposals he's tossing out there . . . Point taken on his problems with substance as well as style.
 
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BraddockCaesar    RE:An apology to Braddock - HS   1/23/2006 1:16:10 PM
Horse Soldier Let's be serious for a moment. Shek Horse Soldier is not your father. Stop running to him for support. If you want to list him as validation for assertions, I can list people like General Atkeson who have over 30 years of theoretical and operational experience. He is at the very least comparable to any expert on this forum. I am surprised at your disdain for nuclear proliferation discussions, as Iraq clearly plays a central role in the future rate of proliferation in the Middle East.
 
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Horsesoldier    RE:An apology to Braddock - HS   1/23/2006 1:19:26 PM
>>I can list people like General Atkeson who have over 30 years of theoretical and operational experience. << And I could cite Ulysses S Grant . . . as I'm pretty certain you and Gen Atkeson and myself and Grant have exactly the same leve of interpersonal relationship . . .
 
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