IVAW’s SF trooper
StrikeFO found another IVAW member, but this one borders on a phony soldier. Michael Bailey of the 21st Chemical Company of the 7th Special Forces Group – except that the 21st Chemical Co. is part of the 82d Airborne Division, not the 7th SFG. According to Global Security, their mission is to provide “direct smoke and decontamination support to their respective brigades” not what Bailey says about his job;
Whatever the hell is “Sensitive Site Exploitation Operator, Forensic Chemical Analyst, Exploitation Ananlysis [sic] Cell Technician” yeah, those are allin the MPs’ job description not a chemical operations specialist. In fact according to the Army, Bailey’s job was described thusly;
Skill Level 1 MOSC 74D1O. Operates and performs operator maintenance on smoke generating equipment, NBC identification/detection and decontamination equipment, performs NBC reconnaissance.
Nice try, Mikey.
When my commanders, my senior NCOs, and my team cannot truly define why they are still fighting, I had no choice but to turn to introspection.
Yeah, that’s what a lot of privates do when they think they’re smarter than their leaders. Usually their answers are vacuous and selfish.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Phony soldiers
Basically, he saw the 7th Grp flash in his AO and surmised he must be one of them… since of course, THEY could not be in HIS unit…
Thankfully he never saw a SOCOM or JSOC patch nearby…
Ah, a little Stolen Valor to spice up life.
His super secret call sign was “Agent Yellow.” I totally knew this guy, his entire unit was wiped out and he survived eating a single blade of grass, and low crawled over the Khrygyzstani border.
Dang… Jonn must have discovered the ‘Silly Pills’ that I thought the VA only gives us geezers.
Jonn,
Tactical Site Exploitation/Sensitive Site Exploitation is basically another way to describe searching an objective after a raid. I helped write my unit’s TSE SOP and it was nothing more than how to handle stuff we found in Iraqi houses, at IED blast sites, etc. All the fancy CSI stuff was done by contractors anyways.
So basically saying he was an “SSE operator” meant he helped searched a house in Afghanistan. Hardcore man. Hard-fucking-core.
I think he just uses the term “operator” to make him sound all high speed and elite.
Don’t you have to be over the age of 12 to be allowed into SF?
I’m sure the guys over at http://www.professionalsoldiers.com would love to hear about this.
Well, I know back in my day the DH was a 92D and that was for the really smart dudes with the ace GT scores. They did some complicated stuff…and AIT was 6 months long. Don’t recall if they trained 72D at McClellan or not…
I wish my neck was that long and elegant…
So basically, after a team clears the building, and there aren’t any dead goats laying around, then this kid is instructed to go in and swipe for any chemicals, after which his sergeant makes the call. Then a quick trip back to base in time for surf & turf, time in the gym, and a movie in the MWR shack.
Perhaps this kid should be teaching folks how to inflate their resume – it’s a rough economy out there.
re #10
Turning boring military resumes into exciting and impressive sounding civilian terminology is a must have skill for almost everyone leaving the military.
#11 NSOM: agree.
I turned “Field Artillery” into “Landscape Artist.” We’ll see if it works.
“Barbarcy”? WTF is barbarcy? And, “my team cannot truly define why they’re still fighting”? Perhaps, to keep from getting killed, douCHE?
DaveO, IOW, he waltzed in, rubbed some swabs on the walls and floor, turns the swabs over to someone who actually knows what they’re doing, and stands back?
operator maintenance on smoke generating equipment? He blows smoke?
Well, he’s definitely good at blowing smoke, that’s for sure.
When he was talking about his disdain for “senseless barbarcy,” he was indicating that he found barracks haircuts to be HORRIBLY unfashionable.
Someone needs to inform this shirtbird and the ex-marine below that the media and the liberals no longer care about IVAW. As long as a left-leaning Democrat is POTUS, IVAW as well as Code Pink are yesterday’s news.
Now let me go buy my Trident badge, since our amtrac platoon was on the same ship as a SEAL team during a Med Float in 1996.
Oh this just pisses me off. For all, this is NOT me. Though the name is dead on. I’d like to say you should NEVER be on an SF team if you don’t know why you’re fighting. Worse, this little f**kstick thinks that by telling a bullshit tale he can GET tail. “war is horrible” woe is me.
Here’s my solution for Michael. 1). Pull your head out of your ass 2). actually do something worth while with your life. 3). stop whining. 4). CHANGE YOUR EFFIN NAME before i kick your ass.
I passed this along to POW.network.
The official streetsweeper daffynition of “barbarcy”: Bar fly minus one.
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I was stationed in Alaska in 1974-76 and singlehandedly kept the Russians from attacking our pipeline !!!
I did that all by myself, and I have 400,000 confirmed kills, (Does it matter if they were mosquitoes and not the enemy people ???)
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Thanks
Thunder