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Man Dressed Like Ninja Attacks Special Ops Soldiers In California
The press is having a field day with this, painting it to look like two special ops supersoldier "operators" (that's not sanctioned military terminology, by the way, that's from video games) ran away in terror from some nutjob wielding a fake katana. I'm here to set the record straight.
The staff sergeant and captain in question were from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, a unit which is equipped with the infamous "black helicopters." The unit consists entirely of pilots and aviation personnel who fly and maintain helicopters designed specifically for covert infiltration and extraction of special operations teams. They are the people who TRANSPORT Special Forces, Rangers and Delta Force, they are NOT "operators" as many news articles are implying. Basically, they're taxi drivers and are not trained in advanced hand-to-hand combat techniques, so it's perfectly acceptable and expected for them to run away from ninjaboy waving his fake sword about.
I served three years on an Army LRSU team in addition to serving two rotations in MEU(SOC) units while I was in the Corps; that's actual special ops. A real special ops infantryman would have taken that sword away from ninjaboy on the first swing and used it to show him his own intestines up close.
The press is having a field day with this, painting it to look like two special ops supersoldier "operators" (that's not sanctioned military terminology, by the way, that's from video games) ran away in terror from some nutjob wielding a fake katana. I'm here to set the record straight.
The staff sergeant and captain in question were from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, a unit which is equipped with the infamous "black helicopters." The unit consists entirely of pilots and aviation personnel who fly and maintain helicopters designed specifically for covert infiltration and extraction of special operations teams. They are the people who TRANSPORT Special Forces, Rangers and Delta Force, they are NOT "operators" as many news articles are implying. Basically, they're taxi drivers and are not trained in advanced hand-to-hand combat techniques, so it's perfectly acceptable and expected for them to run away from ninjaboy waving his fake sword about.
I served three years on an Army LRSU team in addition to serving two rotations in MEU(SOC) units while I was in the Corps; that's actual special ops. A real special ops infantryman would have taken that sword away from ninjaboy on the first swing and used it to show him his own intestines up close.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 15:40
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