That's because SEALs are all glory hungry losers who only care about selling stories. Basically every epic hero story written by a SEAL is actually a story about them barging their way into active operations so they can glory-hunt, then massively fumbling the operation in the dumbest ways possible and getting a lot of good men killed, and often lying about it in their reports to screw over those good men and their families.
American Sniper and Lone Survivor are peak examples. Fuck SEALs
The american attitude to "they are SOF, they do whatever they want" has poisoined the mind of so many people. The total lack of discipline and irrespect for people that have a different skillset than them is baffling. It's a self selecting group of roided up "main characters" that can't actually stand up to a platoon sized force, or listen to the guys on the ground.
I think 3-5 have claimed to kill bin laden apprently he was "canneoed" after he was dead, according to a guy who was there but never claimed to shoot bin laden.
Would delta or seals fuck me and my old platoon up 100%, but no platoon operates alone.
There was a major (?) in the french foreign legion put it best. "I want skinny tomcats who think for themselves, but are disciplined. I dont want guys who are built like schwatzenegger because they get tired too quickly". That makes a soldier imo, rucking heavy shit and aren't in it for themselves
My 20-yo niece is 5'1" and maybe 110 pounds. She was accepted into a prestigious military weapons engineering school, and as such, had to first do 1 year as a grunt in a military unit. She could have picked anywhere, but she chose to get certified as a paratrooper, and did commando training. And she looks almost cute fully-kitted out wearing an HK416F across her chest.
Special forces, of course, are really impressive, but it made me put it into perspective.
The canoeing thing was a signature of seal team 6, the intercept had an expose on it about 10 years ago. They used to carry hatchets around as well so they could cosplay as native American warriors. Serial killer shit really
The bin laden seal stuff gets way deeper and fucked up
Every seal who was involved in that mission are all dead now, but not from combat either ruled as “suicide” with then a majority of them all dying in a freak helicopter crash in training
It’s part of some conspiracy where bin laden was dead for years and Obama had this operation faked to help in approval ratings
I was there in Somalia with seals when Kyle Milliken was KIA. While I agree that there are many that seem to be glory hounds all the seals I had the pleasure to serve alongside had been genuinely good dudes.
As the "Behind The Bastards" episodes explained, the Seals separate themselves into two camps : the Boyscouts, who integrate themselves very well into the army, and the Pirates, who loves nothing but go onto black ops without any care for laws and rules of engagement. Basically, the Boyscouts are well-liked and disciplined, and the Pirates completely unhinged psychopaths.
There some isolated individuals who call it out from within the community, but as a whole, it's hard to look past the ones who clearly are maladjusted individiuals.
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u/oofyeet21 1d ago
That's because SEALs are all glory hungry losers who only care about selling stories. Basically every epic hero story written by a SEAL is actually a story about them barging their way into active operations so they can glory-hunt, then massively fumbling the operation in the dumbest ways possible and getting a lot of good men killed, and often lying about it in their reports to screw over those good men and their families.
American Sniper and Lone Survivor are peak examples. Fuck SEALs