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u/04AspenWhite · 22 pointsr/Military

Its a good book to provide their side of the story, and Further good reading subjects:

  • Blackwater did fill a role, and being scapegoated is part of that role. It parallels with foreign mercenaries like in South Africa, and the PMCs market.

  • Mercenary forces history https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Mercenaries-William-Urban/dp/1848328540 was what i first read into but there are many more out there

  • "Executive Outcomes" https://www.amazon.com/Executive-Outcomes-Against-All-Odds/dp/1919854193

    is pretty good to describe the foundation

  • Why do we use contractors? Read Major General Smedley Butler's War is a Rackeet

  • French Foreign Legion; many books and documentaries in this. But some great perspective was they are a "dirty" force to keep France clean in some clandestine missions where Public Relations are a nightmare.

  • politics; look up why the numbers of troops are counted and why they are counted, but more importantly how they are counted. Do personnel count as an aggregate? if so you want essential warfighter and its support but then... how about logistics, or administration? or other crucial elements? Heres where Halliburton and KBR come into play.

  • specific role, gov contracts are important but then rich people who can afford the best professionals fill this demand.

    My personal opinion is congress/senate and the public got really hung up on numbers. Boots on the ground, the authorized amount and the budget for those deployed.

    They are assets, and when we send and authorize them one of the parties (public, through senate/ congress) gets really snagged on one thing.

    Thus the Military industrial complex gets play and has a legitimate need.

    The problem is the contracting out of political and real life capital. Wars should be fought and have a price to them.

    That is our duty. That is the price we pay. When we contract that out things get really grey really fucking fast.

    Love it if anyone can add onto this discussion from a broader perspective.

    to answer you directly;

  • worked with XE for contracting for a small bit, mostly paper pusher, and verifier of service and clearances. The PMC industry is very fucking small with ethical borders on what is ok and what is not ok.

  • their facilities are some of the topnotch in the world. FBI and DHS sometimes use them. They also have multiple umbrella corporations to contract out with like franchises for Special Missions training.

  • They also do a shit ton of consultancy domestically through C-Level/ fortune 500 companies on security, personnel, and vetting

  • as far as in country, i can only recall 2009/2010 where they rolled around like their shit dont stink and hired locals that i wouldnt trust. They also had bad reputations for supporting their front line "consultant" contractors and we had to give them rides and resupply a couple of them.
u/MikeOfAllPeople · 6 pointsr/Military

If I may, my experience is not in naval rescue but I can speak a little to signaling aircraft.

The most important thing to do is let someone know you are in trouble. No rescue can be initiated if your situation is not known. Before losing power, you would need to make a mayday call. Not sure if there is anything like this in shipping, but in aviation, rescue procedures are generally initiated anytime an aircraft is more than 30 minutes late for arrival.

Radio communications are obviously very useful. If I had a survival radio, I would not necessarily turn it on immediately, unless my survival in the water was immediately at risk. A watch and some careful consideration of flight time would be useful. The channels you listed I do not know, but almost all aircraft are equipped to simultaneously listen to "Guard" frequencies (121.5 VHF, 243.0 UHF, sometimes 40.500 FM). These frequencies are for emergencies only (hence they are "guarded" from other uses).

During daylight, signal mirrors are an effective device for signaling aircraft. You would signal them in a pattern so you are more easily recognized.

If it is night time, it is very likely that any aircraft searching for you will use either infrared imaging or night vision goggles. In either case, an IR strobe light (sometimes called a "firefly") is very effective.

Additionally, you could use an IR chemlight. Tie the chemlight to a length of string then swing it in a circle like you would at a rave (this technique is called an IR "buzzsaw").

The most important thing to keep in mind is to conserve any resource that is limited. All your battery powered signaling devices are only any good if the aircraft is in visual range. Try to use them for short periods only, until you can see or hear the aircraft.

u/Mc_Robit · 2 pointsr/Military

First OP, it is perfectly normal to feel like this. Here is what I would recommend:

School. Do it now, but have plan. Find a field of study that interest you and use the Post 9/11 GI Bill. Don’t go to a for profit school! Find a local state school or community college to start.

Stay Active. You can find all sorts of groups out there to engage with. Yeah it will feel weird at first, but dive in and give it try. If you don’t like, don’t do it. No one can make you.

VA. Get to work on that now. Start the claims process now and keep copies of every freaking piece of paper you get or give them. Get one of these and some folders. Keep track! Got a copy of your medical records? Good, make 2 more copies. Now keep 1 of those and a copy of your DD214 is a safe place (fire proof case or safe deposit box for example).

That should get you started. Oh and remember this, there will be dark times. It happens, but you’re strong and can get past it. It just might take some help. So give the Vet Center a call. They can help adjusting back. http://www.vetcenter.va.gov/

u/PulpHero · 4 pointsr/Military

A miniature sewing kit. When you’re running missions outside, clothes tend to get ripped, and with only limited numbers, life can get rough. A sewing kit helps.
Spirarcha chili sauce. If your soldier likes spicy foods, send them this. It’s spicy, it has flavor, and it will last them a few months.

Socks and underwear. Send them hiking socks and replacement pairs of underwear. Clothes tend to get gross and if they don’t have laundry, sometimes it is for the best to toss out old underclothes and wear new ones.

Beef jerky.

Trail mix of various types.

Great ideas for one-time gifts. These range from relatively cheap, to pricy and are a great surprise to a soldier stationed anywhere. I’ve included links to the products to give you an idea of what they look like, though don’t take those links as the only/cheapest place to find them:

Adjustable two-point sling. On base they have to carry around a weapon everywhere, and on mission they’ll be going some serious distance with it in their hands. If they are still using an Army-issue plain sling life is going to get a bit annoying. An adjustable two-point sling makes things more convenient and lets them ready a weapon to fire without an awkward movement on a mission. Ignore this if they are using a machine-gun, because those use heavy duty slings. Various companies make these, I prefer the VTAC, but they are all similar in make.

Surefire Earplugs. On mission, soldiers are supposed to wear earplugs, but many don’t because its uncomfortable and often all they are issued are cheap low qualifty plugs. Surefire earplugs conform to the shape of the ear and they are designed to allow someone to still be able to hear conversation level noise while protecting from high level noise. These are great.

Head-Loc helmet straps. One of the greatest pains is a helmet that won’t stay secure. The Head-Loc straps stay tighter and make the helmet so comfortable that you forget you’re wearing it.

PMAGs. Magpul plastic magazines, or PMAGs are high quality replacements for metal GI magazines. Army issued metal magazines are often used for years past the date that they should be retired and they are prone to feeding issues (I won’t get into the details) and PMAGs fix many of those issues and give a soldier more confidence in their equipment. A combat load is 7 magazines, so don’t feel the need to buy more than that, and even one or two PMAGs is greatly appreciated. Ignore if they are using a machinegun.

Head-lamp. Walking around an outpost at night is tricky and Afghanistan can get dark, a head-lamp is a great help to keep your soldier from stubbing their toe or walking into barbed wire. Get only with some kind of red or blue light filter.

Mechanix gloves. Soldiers need to wear gloves on mission and they tend to get torn up, a replacement pair of mechanixs gloves is a good choice.

u/My_housecat_has_ADHD · 3 pointsr/Military

>Was that it? That's the way I saw it, but I was in the minority.

Yep, that was the plan for South Vietnam. The eventual end goal of U.S. troops there was to fight off the North Vietnamese invasion/insurgency, and allow the government to build up its military forces and civil society enough to allow South Vietnam to permanently defend itself against North Vietnam's efforts to take over the country. This is what "Peace With Honor" refers to. South Vietnam was basically intended to be a carbon copy of the situation we have with South Korea.

Both Korea and Vietnam had a DMZ and were backed by essentially the same powers. The only difference was South Korea only has oceans on either side of it, whereas South Vietnam had the weak "neutral" nations of Laos and Cambodia next to it. The North Vietnamese had already invaded and stationed multiple divisions worth of troops in "neutral" Cambodia and Laos, using them to conduct cross-border raids deep into South Vietnam well to the rear of the official North-South DMZ. This contrasts with the Korean peninsula, where Kim Il-sung was not likely to be successful in his efforts to station several divisions of troops in the oceans next to South Korea.

The overall national interest in helping South Vietnam was to resist the communization of mainland Southeast Asia, in order to show the Soviet Union that it couldn't bankroll and foment violent communist civil wars around the world willy nilly at low cost, because the U.S. would confront them and impose a high price on Soviet actions.

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>Thanks for liking my stories. I am in remarkably good health lately, considering. Can't find the cause. The only change seems to be getting those damned stories out of my head. I feel better. Thank you for reading. Couldn't feel this good without you.

You know, you could get them turned into a book. Check out something like Reflections of a Warrior, which is a collection of bar stories from a Green Beret who was in Vietnam. Someone got a ghost writer to interview him and put his stories into words, and format it as a collection of stories. I was under the impression all the proceeds went straight to a SOF charity but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, just something to think about.

u/BlueKnightofDunwich · 1 pointr/Military

Six Frigates

It’s about the early years of the US Navy’s first Frigates. A really great read, especially if you enjoy American or Naval history. It manages to hit that perfect balance of delving deep into subjects like ship building while still being very entertaining. Plus the audiobook is narrated by Stephen Lang, who played General Longstreet in Gettysburg and the scar dude in Avatar.

u/Ofthedoor · 2 pointsr/Military

I see a lot of posts about WW2 here (of course) and most of them are pretty inaccurate on a historical standpoint.

For those who are interested, here are a few facts about the Battle of France in May 1940.

  1. The Britts were there too. They don't want you to know about it because it's bad for their image.
    They got the fuck out during "Operation Get the Fuck Out" (It's a joke, it was called Operation Dynamo, still presented today as a great British victory).

  2. On paper, the French army is superior to the German Army. Mainly due to an overwhelming superiority in artillery.

    143 Allies ( inc. 86 French, 10 English, 22 Belgians) Divisions vs 140 German.

    3 383 mostly medium and heavy tanks vs 2 500 mostly light tanks

    3 000 planes vs 5 300 planes

    3.3 million troops vs 3.5 million

    Since Spring 1939, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ("Supreme Command of the Armed Forces") or OKW is desperately trying to figure out how not to be massacred by the French forces as they are preparing for war against France. *every single war game ends up by the annihilation of the German army.

    Von Manstein and Guderian propose in October 1939 the soon to be famous Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) plan: Cutting the Allies forces in the middle and surrounding them by reaching the cost using extremely mobile armored divisions concentrated in the Ardennes . A bet. Everything lies on the crossing of the Meuse river at Sedan.

    At dawn on May 10, 1940 the crossing of the Meuse river begins. French bombers are sent but their actions won't be enough. The core of the French army and its best equipped best trained troops are advancing in Belgium to meet with 70 Germans divisions. It is almost already checkmate.

    For those who want to learn more about this there's a good wiki article:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France


    And here is my favorite book, written by Ernest May, an American historian.

    http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Victory-Hitlers-Conquest-France/dp/0809088541
u/No-Coast-Punk · 18 pointsr/Military

There are a lot of good naval officers out there. A lot of them are very good people and some of them are even my close friends.

The problem is that few of them remain in service.

There is a professional culture that encourages people to be toxic yes-men.

The absolute wrong types of people are being retained and promoted to senior leadership positions.

https://www.amazon.com/Bleeding-Talent-Military-Mismanages-Revolution/dp/0230391273

This is a really good book on the topic.

u/BrotherJayne · 4 pointsr/Military

? What? That book is awesome! And so's the one Fick wrote

Edit: Fick's book: https://www.amazon.com/One-Bullet-Away-Making-Officer/dp/0618773436/

The TV show is pretty good too!

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/Military

If you like what you enjoy, then you'll certainly like this watch.

Casio G-Shock DW5600E-1V Men's Watch

I'm a swimmer and a jogger. It does not fail me.

u/tspek · 1 pointr/Military

This is a pretty interesting read. The book probably creates some bias for me but they truly did build something awesome...

http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003

u/NewThoughtsForANewMe · 6 pointsr/Military

Ahem. Please feel free to read this book about how the Corps built an entire service from the perception of being picked upon:

http://www.amazon.com/Underdogs-Making-Modern-Marine-ebook/dp/B00AB0WE0S/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1369945755&sr=1-2&keywords=marine+corps



  • and, fwiw, I spent a decade in the Navy putting Marines on the beach - I like them jarheads....;-)
u/speedy_43 · 12 pointsr/Military

I enjoyed it. From what I've heard, it's pretty accurate. However, I did prefer Nathan Fick's One Bullet Away.

u/Flatline334 · 0 pointsr/Military

If you want to read some bad ass stuff on Tripoli, more on the US navy itself not so much on the marines but it talks about the Tripoli campaign a lot. It is called Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy an amazing book.

u/starlord0770 · 7 pointsr/Military

https://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Service-Mat-Best-ebook/dp/B07Q3NMVHY

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And this is where Mat Best jumped the shark from being a slightly goofy youtuber hawking cringey t-shirts into the patron saint of bro vet douchebaggery.

u/_TorpedoVegas_ · 6 pointsr/Military

I just wish more people knew about this guy. Described in this book about SOG as one of the best One Zeros around, which is really saying something. The book is a short read, but for the lazy, this link has a good amount of compressed info about this great hero.

u/TheTruthYouHate1 · 1 pointr/Military
u/13FiSTer · 1 pointr/Military

Two badasses talking about one badass's actions that earned him a spot amongst the Gods? Hngggggg

Also, if you guys haven't already, definitely check out all of Bing West's other books, especially No True Glory. He paints a very real, vivid, accurate, and what I feel is non-biased picture of Iraq at the time, as well as how Fallujah came to fall [and eventually be retaken].

It also chronicles the life of one of daily inspirations.

u/Kill825 · 4 pointsr/Military

Same author who wrote Matterhorn.

Definitely worth reading.

u/RecceRanger · 2 pointsr/Military

I know I'm quite late to the party, but I'll let you know about what I have personally read in regards to this topic.

I had a bit of "required reading" to do when I got to the last platoon I would serve in during my time in service. This is the book I had to read. I remember reading about how the NVA created "elite" counter SOG units and hunter-killer teams in order to counter MACV-SOG.

That isn't exactly Spetsnaz vs Navy SEALs, but those counter recon teams were specially trained NVA soldiers. They weren't exactly regular forces.

u/Monsieur-ledouche · 1 pointr/Military

Have a Suunto, much prefer the Casio G-Shock 5000 series. They're simple, cheap, they work, they're damn near indestructible and you can bring them anywhere. I've had mine (5600E) for 5 years, abusing the shit out of it and sometimes going weeks without taking it off, including swimming and shower. It looks like it's covered in smegma. I haven't even had to change the battery.

Either http://www.amazon.com/Casio-DW5600E-1V-G-Shock-Classic-Digital/dp/B000GAYQKY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1449451001&sr=8-3&keywords=casio+5000

or
http://www.amazon.com/Casio-GWM5610-1-G-Shock-Solar-Watch/dp/B007RWZHXO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1449451001&sr=8-2&keywords=casio+5000

u/i_stole_your_swole · 2 pointsr/Military

Reflections of a Warrior. This book is bad-ass, I've read it like ten times.

u/halberdier25 · 51 pointsr/Military

Don't forget to also read Fick's One Bullet Away.

Generation Kill was written by the embedded Rolling Stone reporter, but One Bullet Away was written by the officer commanding that platoon.