Yesterday got off here and then —— came into my hole. We drank a bit, then I went to sleep. When I woke-up his bare feet were in my face. They smelled like corpse sweat.
When he woke up, I asked him why he slept with his boots off.
“Why not?”
“What if you have to run from an artillery strike or an invasion?”
“Run where?”
“Where it ain’t.”
“If we can figure that out, we have a sure-fire money scheme.” We both laughed like still drunk loons.
This sounds like something from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Have not seen that in a while.
Word here is they are looking for more folks with the quals to do more deep missions. I will raise my hand, but the age cut-off seems to be well below my status, and probably for good reason.
Kind of implies they have more fire support resources if they’re looking for more targets?
Or attrition of their scouts
More targets, better long-range cover for teams, more confidence, and — so far — a lack of Russian recon in their behind-the-lines areas.
For more than thirty years all I’ve heard about is how good Spetsnaz units are, but I always thought it was odd that there were so many of them on paper with abundant skills. Like every one of them was a combination of Sgt. Rock and James Bond. I used to think, “Can they have that many guys so well trained?”
All spec ops troops have overblown reputations, not that they don’t do amazing things…thing with Spetz is there is not much out there to compare them to in actual combat.
In my experience, spec ops guys have a great ability to deal with fear, good physical ability, top-notch training, and more fear of showing fear and failure than of dying. They also need actual field combat to sort themselves out.
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