CBS’ SEAL Team
The folks at CBS want us tell you about their new TV series that premieres on September 27th. It is entitled “SEAL Team” and it stars David Boreanaz.
SEAL TEAM stars David Boreanaz in a military drama that follows the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them. Deployed on clandestine missions worldwide at a moment’s notice, and knowing the toll it takes on them and their families, this tight-knit SEAL team displays unwavering patriotism and fearless dedication, even in the face of overwhelming odds.
It will probably launch the careers of millions of phony SEALs, as if we don’t have enough already.
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Boreanz must be a legit bad-ass, his character on ‘Bones’ was an ex-Ranger sniper./sarc I guess as long as he doesn’t run for the NM Senate seat…
And he’s a vampire, to boot.
Wondering. . . Is there a category of stolen valor for pretending to be undead?
Yeah, he was the sad, pussy vampire that got his own crap-spinoff.
Ahhh…..I think i’ll pass.
FFS…didn’t History Channel already do this?
I suppose the woman on the left is a member of the ‘Team’ too….you know for inclusion purposes.
Will one of them be gay too?
SEAL Team ‘Glee’ where diversity reigns and they go on Social Justice Missions.
Sadly, you probably have the story arc nailed.
Oh yeah – I forgot about the gay requirement when typing my thoughts below. Good catch!
“I suppose the woman on the left is a member of the ‘Team’ too”
Nah, that’s a transgender guy, er, gal; whatever.
I just call them a Fembot with a kickstand
Dammit… Spew alert needed desperately…
Dude to the left of davey isn’t even trying to hide gay…oh yeah, he’s scaring me to death
He looks like he’s gettin ready to “polish his bayonet”
The History Channel did this a few months ago with “SIX”. Aside from depicting team guys as a bunch of raging alcoholic sociopaths who kill everything that breathes, ROE be damned, it was ok. Lots of action and stuff goin ‘splody.
I didn’t make it through the first episode. All form and no substance.
Judging by the poster this dumpster fire has all the makings of a musical comedy. I’ll pass.
Don’t forget, bangs their fellow teammates’ wives…
But, but there’s no Asian character in that lineup…
He’s there, just in Ninja mode.
Remember the “Hawaii Five-O” thing, Poe. Ethnic Asians can be top-billed Stars, but they still won’t get paid as much as white actors. And Hollywood calls us racist…
And the females don’t get paid as much and have to put up with all sorts of sexual harassment – and they call us sexist….
I fairly regularly blast a couple of hollywood actor types on FB because they re-post about how tough it is to work there because of the sexism, racism, stereotyping, etc.
Usually it is something along the lines of “Yeah, so when are all you actors making millions starting the boycott of hollywood until they fix their ways?”
OR
“you sure have no problem cashing those checks and buying that new multi-million dollar house from the money you made working in such a sexist/racist/homophobic town!”
Strangely, I never seem to get responses or see an actual boycott by them….
If it’s so bad, they could always try a regular job in blue-collar redneck flyover America, where that shit doesn’t fly.
You expect celebrities and rich people to mingle amongst the peasant class? Pshawwww!
They will have to have a quadriplegic lesbian black or latino to hit the trifecta on that show.
I’m sure that CBS, just like Hollywierd, will have a quota foo-foo character just to make it as PC as they can.
She fills one of the diversity slots.
I think it will be great. It will be a way to showcase the hard working folks who make up the SEAL teams in the same way the “Army Wives” was a way to showcase the US Army. I am also looking forward to seeing if they are able to showcase females working with SEALs. From watching the Avengers and Kill Bill, I know that females can be every bit as bad ass as men are so I hope this show can put the focus on that fact. I mean, how many dudes does Black Widow kill while a MAN (Happy) is messing around with ONE opponent?
That was the bestest scene in Iron Man 2.
Any scene with Scarlette Johannsen in tight leather is the bestest scene. Duh!
Was “Army Wives” the show where all the dependents wore designer clothing and the Military drove BMW’s, Merecedes or highend American motor vehicles no matter how low their paygrade. Never once did a dependent go out to lets say the Commissary wearing her husbands old PT uniform looking like she just woke up. That one? Yah, I wonder why it was canceled?
And they all looked like models. Catherine Bell was one of them, but she was the big slut of the crew.
Met her once… one gorgeous lady. Not at her best, either – sweaty, helmet hair, dressed in a racing suit. And still very friendly, nice, and did I mention gorgeous?
Well, since I gave up watching TV shows ages ago, I suppose I won’t be watching.
I can hope that they do a decent job showing the sacrifices our SO folks and families make, but fear it will be sensationalized beyond any good that could come out of it.
I doubt the validity of this show.
I saw nothing about kitchen time.
Everyone knows SEALs also cook.
I thought that was the CBs. Always looked for a SeaBee camp around chow time during DS/S – best chow in The Arabia of Saud, at least north of Al-Jubail Pizza Sheik.
Yep, when I was traveling in and around the Raq of the I and the Wait of the Ku, I tried to always stay at the CB camps…comfortable quarters, good chow and MWR amenities including booze if u knew where to find it…I think they considered General Order Number One an Army thing…
So are you saying I should change my stories to SeaBeeGirls? I’d have to re-engineer the whole thing.
Consider a She-B spin-off, Ex?
*grin*
Late to the party, I know. Thing called “work” interferes…
Well, think about it. It has all sorts of possibilities.
Imagine a construction battalion of women in coveralls and tool belts….
Remember, also measure thrice, cut once.
You forgot the pink tool belts and tools like the pink guns at the gun shows I attend.LOL
Badum-tish!
I love CB’s. We inherited the base camp area they constructed and occupied in Chu Lai. I couldn’t believe it. They had flush toilets and porcelain urinals. They had real shower heads with water pressure; not the 55 gallon drum on stilts with holes punched in a quart can for a shower head. The wooden plank barracks buildings looked like they were built in the states; two-stories no less.
‘Everyone knows SEALs also cook.’
Top ramen + freshly speared something + tabasco = ‘winning’.
Having said that, being a good cook, especially as a new guy, is NEVER a bad thing.
It’s not uncommon for 4 guys to share a house where only 2 are living there at a time (you intentionally look for another pair of guys with offset deployment schedules as much as possible: 4 guys paying rent 2 guys in a big house is a nice setup).
I had a housemate (another new guy) who was an OUTSTANDING cook (although he swore by garlic a little too much).
This meant a steady stream of guys coming to see what was for dinner, bringing booze, meat for cooking, etc.
When you need well more than 2000 calories a day a lot of quality, inexpensive, easy to come by food is a luxury considering free time constraints.
I’ll admit it’s been years and every time I have fish with some rice and am not overpowered by a cloud of garlic, I go on a little pleasant nostalgia trip.
Those were the days. As carefree as it gets in the world of SOF. A new guy where all the cool schools were still new, etc.
More than in the Civilian world, youth is wasted on the young. 😉
I was gonna say something facetious about SWCC guys and their unofficial duties…but I gotta work around those guys. 🙂
Oh…if you weren’t already going to SOF hell… 😉
Having said that, in my experience DBGs are largely unsung (unjustly so) and either bad or very good. The very good ones are worth their weight in gold.
Also, since SWCC came into being the ‘average’ quality level of DBGs skyrocketed. Almost no comparison now vs. back then.
‘It will probably launch the careers of millions of phony SEALs, as if we don’t have enough already.’
Yup; shack.
Tridents, leather vests, poser bling, doo-rags, and dumbass-looking white framed mirror-lens wrap-around sunglasses are gonna be flying off of the shelves in surplus stores across the nation this fall after 27 September.
Motorcycle sales are also predicted to spike to unprecedented levels following the premiere of this TV show.
Well pardners, it looks like it’s time to hit the armory… this is gonna take a LOT of shells.
I just really must be freakin’ old and dino-like!
WTF is up with those white framed sunglasses?????
There you go thinking logically again.
Don’t forget the spike in leather vest sales and sales of patches and badges of all things SEAL. The populations of dog pounds may fall as our new posers get their “service” dogs.
Just skimming the comments. Mick, I now see you have it all covered except for the mutts.
Get ready for a transgender SEAL who quaffs Moccachino’s and is a Yahtzee champion. Graduated at the top of his (?) BUD/S class, don’t you know.
Uh, yeah. No thanks.
Sorry, real life already beat you to the punch: 😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Beck
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=36006&cpage=2
Um, that would be a big fat “No.” Check your facts – the ones in the first source you cited.
Beck retired in 2011. While serving, Beck complied with the DoD policies then in effect (“don’t ask/don’t tell”) and served as his biological gender – e.g., as a man. He didn’t begin his “transition” until after retirement.
Try again.
Same with GB COL David Schroer…didn’t transition to Diane “The Man” Schroer until after retirement.
Ah, yes, Diane. My old battalion commander….
I never heard anyone that worked with him say much of anything nice about him.
There’s a reason for that.
Okay? All I said was that reality beat Marcus to the punch, the joke being that there already is a transgender SEAL. So unless you think that because of retirement Beck isn’t a SEAL anymore, I don’t see how I got my facts wrong. But you might want to have a word with Chief Shipley in that case…
In any case, it was just a throw-away joke, nothing meant to be taken seriously.
Lesson number one in a school that cannot be mentioned:
“All skills are perishable.”
My eyes just rolled back so far I saw my cerebellum. FFS
What the hell is a cerebellum?
Are you talking about your brain?
Pretty sure you spelled that wrong.
Ummm, no, he didn’t. IIRC, he teaches 18D (Special Forces medics) for a living, so I’m quite sure he knows his medical terminology and how to spell all of it.
Yef’s just being facetious today instead of grouchy. 🙂
Sarah Bellum … used to write for Garrison Kiellor if I recall ….
(^_^)
OK …see this is what happens when you move into the spotlight.
Stay in the dark at least two terrain features back and don’t talk to the fukking press.
Does anyone watch these shows? When I was a kid I ate up every WW2 movie I could find. As a young soldier, every Merc and Vietnam movie. By my second decade in the army, I could not sit through most of them.
This is exactly where I am right now.
I do not watch war movies or TV shows no matter what. I can’t stand the fakeness and the liberal bent.
I just see a bunch of actors faking war.
The problem is, other people in the extended family watch them and they ask me. I’m like “absolutely everything in that movie is false”.
The last war movie I watched, The Hurt Locker, won an Oscar, and I have never ever seen so many lies put together in a movie.
I’m like, whatever.
The Siege of Jadotville was good I thought.
That is an excellent movie. And no one says “Don’t call me ‘sir’. I work for a living” like every US war movie since Deerhunters.
Oh yeah, i think it is on Netflix.
Historical movies don’t really count, because if it was before I joined the Army, things might have changed a bit.
I could believe some of that stuff in Saving Private Ryan.
A damn good movie.
When I was a kid we watched “Combat” (and “12o’clock High”). Dad would watch with us and tell us what was realistic, and what was not, explaining things that did not make sense to us.
We learned early on that TV and movies did not represent reality.
“Big Red One” – somewhat cheesed up but the writer/director was a 1st Infantry WWII grad. “Cross of Iron” – author Willi Heinrich came from the Eastern Front 228th Jager. At least the authors knew what they were talking about.
Big Red One….ah yes. The story of a young Private who fought in a major war before flying off to live with his Aunt n’ Uncle in the desert and run Moister Vaporators. In his spare time he bulls-eyed Wap Rats in his T-16. Someday soon though, he would be a Jedi….
That’s the one. FYI, the guy who played the smart-ass Italian Vinci was Slim in “Th Cowboys.”
Sure,… but the people watching them watch them as entertainment, not a documentary. They tune in for the drama, the relationships, the wise-cracks, the stories and the action… but not the realism.
I can enjoy watching NCIS despite knowing that, when they were getting ‘hacked’ and had two people type on one keyboard at the same time, it wasn’t exactly representative of .. well, shit, reality, let alone cyber security. (For kicks, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2zo0JN2HE )
Expecting realism from military-styled entertainment is like expecting deep conversations from the porn star dressed up like a librarian. It’s just styled like that to provide a compelling theme and hook, not to represent reality.
Continuing to use the NCIS example – the problem is that now prosecutors have to fight the unrealistic expectations of jury members who don’t realize that stuff is just BS.
It’s fun to watch as long as you know better, but when we have the number of mental midgets we seem to have who believe the fantasy, it get’s old.
As a result of the CSI shows, many jurors and potential jurors expect conclusive, irrefutable evidence of guilt in many cases. Also, contrary to depictions in these shows, DNA test results don’t come back in 20 minutes after submission.
There was a guy on another forum I frequent, who insisted that it was not possible to get a conviction in the State of Oklahoma, for the crime of rape, unless there was DNA evidence. I guess that using a condom, or a beer bottle, to commit rape never happens in that state.
Yeah, kinda how I feel watching “Chicago Fire,” for which the primary entertainment value is found in irritating my wife by punctuating every ten seconds with “Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. Wrong tool. Bullshit. Bullshit. Cars don’t explode. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. That medic would be in prison. Bullshit. Bullshit. Button up your coat, dumbass. Bullshit. Bullshit. Aw, give me a fuckin’ break! Who writes this shit?” That and laughing my ass off at the overwrought “drama.”
At least “Rescue Me” portrayed life in a firehouse somewhat realistically.
-tires- make one hell of a noise when they cook off.
I remember the first time I saw a gas tank blow on a vehicle fire. My reaction, from 15 feet away, was “That’s it? I feel cheated!”
Now, 500-gallon residential propane tanks? Those are another story.
I guess I’m the only one that watched “Hennessy” and “McHale’s Navy”.
McHale’s Navy was funny – as was Hogan’s Heroes.
Never saw Hennessy.
Hennessy – Jackie Cooper as a Navy doctor. It was the 1950s. I also got to watch ’77th Bengal Lancers’ on afternoon serial TV, and Wild Bill Hickock and The Virginian.
You had a TV in the 50’s? I’m so jealous.
Oh, Spew Alert!!
The only entertainment we had out on the farm was watching the bacon seeds eat their own nuts on cutting day./smile
Yeah, we had one… and things just went downhill from there.
What was Hennessy’s beagles name? How about Capt. Midnight, Andy Devines show, with plunk your magic twanger froggy, Super circus, Sea Hunt,Sky King, Roy Rodgers with Nelly Bell the jeep, Sgt. Bilko and so many more. Those years went by so fast.
That was Bernaette, a Bassett hound who played ‘Cleo’. The show was Cooper’s prior series ‘The People’s Choice’. There was also a cat named Socrates on that show.
The Bengal Lancers! Hadn’t thought about that show in years!
Life was considerably simpler, I guess.
Sugarfoot; Cheyenne; Maverick; Have Gun – Will Travel; Gunsmoke; High Chaparral; The Blue Angels; Sky King; Fury; Sea Hunt; Mickey Mouse Club….
In our area the first three alternated weeks – so if you didn’t like Clint Walker, for instance, you didn’t tune in that Sunday. Don’t forget Sgt. Preston of the RCMP!Or the ultimate… Steve McQueen and “Wanted: Dead or Alive”.
Know a couple of real life former SEALS…. I’ll pass on the homo drama.
I’m so glad the SEALs are finally getting some recognition. No one ever hears about them at all!
You’re onto something there Instinct. Another military organization has finally outdone the Marine Corps public relations department. Remember what Truman said about them?
“The Marines have a better propaganda machine than Joseph Stalin.”
Of course it had to be another branch of the Navy to do do it.
Heh…
Tried to watch the promo, but I just don’t have 5 minutes to waste on that. Certainly won’t be ‘tuning in’.
I laughed when he called the dog a “Hair Missile”…the rest made me cringe and I was only able to watch it by employing USMC Staff meeting survival and resistance techniques.
I’m assuming that’s a euphemism for “blackout drunk?”
I wonder if Dan Rather or john kerry will have cameo appearances.
Brian Williams.
A man is accused of fatally shooting a service technician from the American Automobile Association after he became irate about the response time for service on his dead car battery.
Jesus Esquivel, 63, from Miami, Florida, reportedly shot Magdiel Hernandez, 38, multiple times on Tuesday afternoon.
Esquivel, a disabled Navy SEAL veteran, got into an argument over the phone with a service technician about the length of time it would take for him to get a new car battery for his 2003 Cadillac Escalade, the arrest report says.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4692700/Police-Irate-customer-fatally-shoots-AAA-service-technician.html
FOIA or the SEAL claim is bullshit.
I’d be surprised if he can even produce a retiree ID card
Word
SEAL claim is officially bullshit per BMCS(SEAL)Don “The Hair” Shipley, et al.
Chuck Norris has a poster of The Hair®™ on his bedroom wall that he looks at every morning for inspiration.
Not gonna bother.
Here we go…again. A TV series about the ups and downs, in and outs and backstories of being a SEAL.
SEAL team with good looking, civilian woman running the show. Check.
Back at home, the wife issues, the teenage angst. Check.
Missions muddled by wife’s upset, good looking leader’s pushing them to succeed. Check.
Yea it all says, “this is the way real SEAL Teams operate.
NOT!!! I’ll pass.
Don’t forget the female SEAL who’s the best hand-to-hand combatant! You gotta have one of those!
She’s too light-skinned, hair is eight inches too long and she’s too flatchested to be a real female SEAL.
Hey, it can’t be any worse than “GI JANE”. Now that was some seriously deluded hollyweird bullshit. I can’t stand any of the military themed movies produced these days. I watched the original “Dirty Dozen” a couple of weeks ago. Damn find movie made more so because most of the actors in it had actually served and experienced combat. Nothing made since that era has been good, especially the fucking Vietnam movies which perpetuated the “insane Veteran” meme liberals love to push.
Quite a bit of that movie was shot in middleburg, Florida right down the road from my place.
(I was stationed at NAS JAX at the time)
Funny story about Demi Moore, the local gym (at the time) in Orange Park was called Q Fitness. They had a baggy clothing rule, so as not to intimidate fat overweight people from coming in to improve3 themselves. Demi came in, in some tight clothing and was kicked out. After I’m sure throwing quite a bit of ‘Do you know who I am(s) around’.
Funny.
This show reeks of PC BS from a mile away and has all of the Hollywood boxes checked. Prettyboys and prettygirls striking macho poses and uttering dramatic remarks. No Thanks.
Maybe the show can mimic the old A-Team series and have lots of massive shootouts where no one gets hit.
WOW, When I watched the first A-Team episode, with all that fire power and no one getting hit, I stopped watching and they are showing the reruns on ME TV 156 down here in S. Florida
Wasn’t there a badass movie, with actual SEALs in it, that did this exact same thing? I know there was. I saw it a couple times in the theater.
There was a movie called “Act of Valor” which wasn’t so much “badass” as it was just “bad.” 😉
I kinda liked that one. Even bought the DVD.
I saw it and was impressed with the acting skilz of the real SEALs in it, but then some of the ones I have dealt with in real life have a little hambone in them anyway.
I got the DVD too and watched it. The “action” was pretty good, but they expected real SEALs to “act” and that was pretty bad.
I’d watch painted stripes on pavement dry if Rosalyn Sanchez was doing the painting. Puerto Rico’s finest export.
Yeah, but when you go in knowing that they are real SEALs and not actors, you can compensate for that.
I wonder what kind of fucking soap opera this is gonna be.
How many SEAL wives are gonna cheat on their husbands?
How many SEALs are gonna cheat on their wives?
How many times will the wives say something like; “you’re never home for John Jr.s baseball games, Suzies dance recitals, and baby Moshe’s bar-mitzva!” (okay, maybe that one they won’t say).
And looking at the composition of the team, I wonder how many times the female “intel specialists” will wind up going on the missions with the SEALs proving they are just as good as the men, and are able to lift, haul, and kick nuts with the best of them?
Count on me to NOT be there to watch this show from the very beginning. I have better things to do; like clean the dingle berries off my dog’s ass.
Yeah, that’s the shit that ran me off from “The Unit”
Thank you. “The Unit”. One hour of my life I’ll never get back.
I liked the Unit, even with some of the silliness they added in. The only reason they stopped filming it was because of the Writer’s strike that happened when they would’ve been filming, as I recall. But it was still 4 seasons worth.
Granted, there are plenty of examples in the real military of personnel hooking up with the wives/husbands of their fellow unit members. In some cases, even commanders hooking up with their own subordinates. (One of my previous units is currently under investigation for that very thing.)
At least the Unit hired SGM Haney (ex-Delta operator) as a consultant to tamp down some the totally bogus foolishness. I read his book, thought it was interesting, but there wasn’t much in it that made to the TV show.
Ditto
Former SEAL population is guaranteed to rise after this show airs!
This ought to be a screaming success, what amounts to a 90 minute movie crammed into a season of twelve or so 60 minute episodes…
Don’t forget special guest star rapper I-Tea, playing himself PFC Tracy “Bag-a-donuts” Marrow…
I think I liked this TV show better when it was about the Army and was called “The Unit.”
Oh, wait, no I didn’t like that at all (despite the inclusion of Robert Patrick from Terminator 2 spouting off geniune Army slang. They must have hired a consultant for that.)
I’ll say one positive thing about “The Unit” (at least the 3 or 4 episodes I was actually able to watch): At least they made almost all of the main characters enlisted. Too many military “Dramas” are filled with officers who don’t seem to be in any sort of leadership position.
Martinjmpr,
You mean the JAG officer former Naval aviator who ALWAYS seems to be packing heat isnt real?????? I knew there was something off about that show…
Hmmm my idea for a show would be, lets see, oh yeah antigrav APC’s and Tanks in a futuristic military regiment that happens to look like an Armored Cavalry regiment…wait, whaddaya mean David Drake already came up with that??? 😉
Well, just think of how many dudes joined the Marines thinking their females all looked like Catherine Bell? (Schwing!)
Beauty is a light switch away
Eric Haney, who was a “plank owner” in Delta, who also became the CSM of the unit was the main consultant for the show. So there ya go. He also wrote a book about it, which was a fairly quick n’ easy read.
I did enjoy watching the show, even with some of the silliness.
How much of the storylines and plots in the show actually happened is of interest to me. I’d bet that at some point an officer / team leader hooked up with one of his troop’s wives, if not more, for example.
Well, you can expect one adventurous foray per week into Unknown Territory, using stuntmen for jumps, stunts, shoot-shoot-bang-bang stuff, and imaginary equipment that they get to field test. They won’t deploy from an overseas base because that would cost the production company too much money, but they’ll fly to the Point of Action because scenes of anonymous airplanes and parachutes can be edited into the episodes with a sweep-cut segue.
And they’ll all be home in time for dinner.
I got bit on the tush by a seal (carnivorous marine mammal type) that did not take kindly to my brother and I poking him with a stick back when I was a kid during a family vacation to Seal Beach (Orange County, California).
I’m thinking maybe that qualifies me to be a technical advisor on this kind of show.
CBS’ SEAL Team producers, have your people call my people…
This show will be a non-starter until they hire Old Scruff-Face to do the voice over narration./snark
😀
I’ll bet his agent is already angling for a cameo appearance for Ol’ Scruffy.
I am going to have so much fun ripping this silly show.
Scruff face will be getting his own show:
If you had to choose between watching Captain Freedom’s workout and Jane Fonda’s fitness show…..how many seconds would it be before you stabbed your own eyes and ears?
So which one does the ball on the nose thing ???
Or is that the Chair Force Seals ???
Never EVER touch the dog’s ball! EVER!!!
You don’t have to touch Ol’ One Ball’s remaining nut. He always takes care of it on his own, as he is sensitive about only having one left. He lost one in a terrible crash while riding on some poser’s Harley.
Another SEAL flick…yawn.
How about they do something that we can all relate to.
“DRAWER GUNNERS…Clerks gone Berserk”
Episodes
Formations and the art of non-participation
You were on Leave? How to preserve those numbers on your LES.
COMRATS and Meal Cards…keeping the best of both worlds
“Irish Pennants”…the curse of the Corps
Blousing Boots…avoiding the sloppy sag.
I am sure there are more ideas for quality entertainment that non cephalopods would enjoy.
I think my idea SeaBeeGirls is a good one. I am already making notes.
Here are a few more potential episodes:
– The Fine Art of Blocking and Starching the Eight Point Cover
– Edge Dressing: It’s Not Just for Corfams Anymore
– ‘M-NU: So Many Uses; So Little Time
– Rocking an Air Winger Haircut and Still Remaining Within Regs
– No, I Haven’t Seen Your Special Liberty Request Chit
– Hands in Your Trouser Pockets: A Risk Assessment
– Sleeves Rolled Up, or Sleeves Rolled Down: The Never-ending Emotional Controversy
– Liberty Tonight: The Driftwood, Tobies, The Brown Bagger, or Go Straight to Court Street? How to Make the Smart Choice
More to follow…
LMAO…
Sick call Commando’s: securing the perpetual chit.
Fresh Socks and Motrin…the Corpsman’s cure-all.
– Duraglit or Liquid Brasso? Kiwi Shoe Polish or Lincoln Stain Wax?…The Ongoing Dilemmas
– The Art of Escaping From Camp Wilson and Sneaking to Mainside 29 Palms During CAX
– Walking on the Grass: Is It Worth The Risk?
– 550 Cord: The New Currency
– The ‘Dos’ and ‘Don’ts’ of Operating the Floor Buffer During Field Day
Aahhh, the highly coveted light duty chit. Known well by slackers throughout the military
BC Glasses, Brown or Black: Which makes thighs drip the most?
Regular or anodized: Do these medals make me look fat?
SeaBeeGirls:
Dammit! We just built that f–king bridge!
Dammit! We just rebuilt that f—ing bridge!
BOOM! What f–king bridge?
Never Touch My Plumb Bob
Does this wrench make me look fat?
We don’t do nails. We pound them.
LOL…you need to cash in on this.
Thanks! I think I will.
EAB “John-Boy Walton” glasses were a sure-fire panty dropper, but only if you put some heat shrink tubing on them so your temples wouldn’t turn green.
I’ve always thought highly of the black frames, but the brown are not without their advocates.
Don’t forget, one entire season of “Mandatory Training” At least one season.
Run Dropping: The art of the inconspicuous fade.
Ha!
AH, Irish Pennants. Were those the little pieces of thread that stuck out of the little metal bands on the ends of those 18 inch clothes stops that had to be cut off even at the metal end that we used in the Great Lakes Boot camp to hang up our clothes in the drying room and tie up our ditty bags to the bunk rail that the 1st class DC CC would cut open my ditty bag because I could not tie it right then I had to sew it up while every one else was in the lounge smoking and coking. I also wound up in the large drill hall working off the demerits doing the 96 count manual of arms with an American Enfield rifle This was in 1963 so it was cigarettes and coca cola. How about you had to stand asshole to belly button on the chow line.
I’m sure this will have all the white-knuckled tension and gritty realism that Top Gun brought to Naval Aviation.
*gawd that was hard to type*
Top Gun.
— sigh —
You just had to do it, didn’t you.
Dude…Top Gun was so awesome!
Until I joined the Navy, and could see how horrible it truly was. I got gypped out of cool USMC enlistment because of that recruiting flick.
(But, I did some really cool shit with A-7’s, F/A-18’s, SH-3’s, and SH-60’s…so it turned out to be a wash.)
Any situation where Tom Cruise turns a woman Lesbian (Kelly McGillis) is a good thing.
Wait. She is lesbian???
http://people.com/celebrity/kelly-mcgillis-coming-out-as-a-lesbian-not-easy/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/13/jodie-foster-gay-golden-globes_n_2469439.html
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/02/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/maria-bello-gay/index.html
They don’t call it Hollywierd for nothing
How about “Camp Casey: The Untold Story.” Show what happens in the ville on Friday and Saturday nights (also, on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights.)
Only problem with that one is that it would have to be on “Skinemax” and only be shown after 10pm. 😉
Aaahhh, fond memories of TDC and Itaewon wondering how I survived…
I wonder how Senior Chief Shipley and Mr. Sharkman view these kinds of shows.
They view them with large portions of mac & cheese and dark glasses.
I would have thought popcorn…but to each their own.
Hey ALL! 🙂 Thanks for the giggles! I particularly liked the different episode titles! The one about the buffer brings back “fond” memories of several Sundays spend buffing the brigade HQ building near Disneyland at good old Fort Knox.
Brought some relief to an otherwise hectic week out here in the Washington desert.
Thanks again!
As long as they don’t forget the one team member who’s wife is a porn star and he stars in some of her movies with her too.
I recall the days as a pup, being raised by the last generation of the ‘Old School’.
Tattoos, of any kind but ESPECIALLY anything alluding to NSW: Nah.
The inability to harmlessly lie/misdirect any line of questioning to avoid being pinned as a Teamguy = loser. This made for some great ‘cover stories’. Dolphin Doctor, Sea Otter Linguist, etc.
Basically, the need to tell anyone on the outside that you were a Teamguy pretty much meant you weren’t right in the head for the job, according to the Old School.
Now I get that times change. And some ‘young pup’ with 7 or 8 combat deployments rocking a tattoo that alluded to Teamguy status…well, I’m not saying sh1t. It’s their world now, part of the nature of things and the ‘Wayback Machine’.
But when I hear about TV shows like this, I will admit that my inner monologue is basically:
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Another reason to not watch CBS.
CBS = “See BS.” 😉
The number of poser SEALs will skyrocket from tips gained in watching the show. At least the lingo of the posers will improve. Probably have a few posers who claim to have been on the show.
“There I was, deep in the glare of the camera lights, when the SHTF …”
I’m sure it will go the way of the failed TV show called “Over There”. That show was set in Iraq and had every single Army stereotype in one Squad and lasted 7 episodes.
Man, that’s a whole lot of diversity right there in a SEAL team. Gender, ethnicity etc.
Maybe they should just title it SEAL team sex.
Still ain’t interested.
And everyone will be sporting the “operator” beard, because, you know, everyone in the military has one.
I refuse to watch this tripe due to the fact that my buddy “Diwzzle” Williams ( that was a “tier one” Rat Rig operator in the commo platoon) was not given his own action series on CBS detailing his and other platoon members exploits, adventures, and hi jinx outsmarting 1st Sgt and most other senior NCOs in his never ending quest to evade Article 15s.
Don’t waste your time with Hollywood BS, check out the real BUDS training on Youtube