Jack Murphy
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Journalist & host @theteamhousepod. The High Side co-founder. We Defy: The Lost Chapters of Special Forces History: https://t.co/NJ2kCfV0ek
New York City
Joined September 2011
These smart ass sarcastic answers are how people reply in free countries. It is only in authoritarian states where people answer with wooden rehearsed replies about maintaining the continuity of our most glorious nation.
🇺🇸 US soldiers were asked why they joined the army — there answers had nothing to do with duty, service or honor…. No wonder Russia is winning this war.
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A U.S. Special Operations official monitoring the conflict in Ukraine told Connecting Vets that he had seen estimates of 280 Russian armored vehicles taken out by the Javelin as of this writing, out of 300 total missiles fired.
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Amongst those questioned included a Green Beret nick named "The War Criminal" due to the distinctive birthmark on his face that looks like war paint, and also because of "other stuff" in Afghanistan.
Panic spread through the special operations community at Fort Bragg as members of 3rd Special Forces Group and Delta Force were investigated for alleged involvement in drug and human trafficking, @JackMurphyRGR reports
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WH is very quiet about this one, when normally they use and abuse the military for all the glory they can wring out of it.
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There is this weird facet of American psychology that we don't see airstrikes or special ops raids as being "war.".
Biden says in his oval office address, "I'm the first president this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world." (The Pentagon announced airstrikes in Yemen earlier today.)
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Seeing people complaining about how much we're giving to Ukraine and I'm just sitting here wondering why we haven't given them F-16s and Abrams main battle tanks yet.
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I spent months working on this deep dive about the CIA working with a NATO intelligence ally to conduct sabotage strikes inside Russia. Merry Christmas.
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Don't want to shock anyone, but this is what we should have been doing in Afghanistan and Iraq if we actually wanted to "win" and withdraw leaving behind something resembling a democracy. Instead it was all on DOD and the rest of our government was just kind of absent.
60 Minutes discovered the U.S. is financing more than weapons in Ukraine. The government is buying seeds/fertilizer for farmers, paying the salaries of 57,000 first responders and subsidizing small businesses.
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2001 wants its narrative back.
We should be bombing the Taliban, ISIS, and anyone else who messes with American lives back to the Stone Age.
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Nice to know that my government will have a foreign leader speak to the house, condemning fundamental American civil rights, and they'll cheer him on while he flattens cities like Assad and the Russians did.
Netanyahu's remark to Congress that Gaza protesters "should be ashamed of themselves" is met with a standing ovation that goes on for nearly a minute.
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Weird how this doesn't make it into the conversation about groomers.
Illinois attorney general finds Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 kids, with hundreds more priests involved than the church had named.
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I always found it weird that we had a tighter ROE rolling with the special ops task force in a war zone than most cops within the United States seem to have.
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Just to be clear, this is false. I know the guy who shot Pat, and it was a tragic and accidental friendly fire incident. The military initially lied about how it went down, and that is the real issue here.
Just a reminder that Pat Tillman, the man in the ad the NFL just opened the Super Bowl up with, was shot in the head by his own men in an intentional friendly fire incident after he became openly critical of U.S. war efforts (particularly in Iraq).
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My bro, who takes their fucking mil ID card with them on a merc job to dispose of a foreign government?.
.@NicolasMaduro: Among the terrorist captured today they were 2 U.S. military officials from Texas. According to a member of the band they are "intermediaries with Trump's head of security". Their names are Luke Denman and Aaron Barry, members of the company Silver Corp.
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This is horrifying. I don't think even the Russians have experienced this level of internal military dysfunction.
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When some folks were fine abandoning Kurds in Syria but are up in arms about leaving the Afghans high and dry. pretty obvious what that is all about.
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Sorry if I'm less than enthused to listen to the Japanese lecture us about not taking responsibility for war crimes.
Oppenheimer has been released in Japan, eight months after its global release. We spoke to historian Naoko Wake to learn why the U.S. refuses to take accountability for the war crimes it committed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and why all of this is relevant to us today.
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The battle lines for something far bigger than Ukraine are currently being drawn across the globe.
Exclusive - Newly obtained footage from Russia's Sergievsky Training Ground showing North Korean troops being outfitted in Russian gear in preparation for deployment to Ukraine.
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From Rojava to Israel we have this really weird predilection to fetishize female soldiers. It's a little creepy. Makes me really jaded to see the same patterns repeated in every modern conflict.
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These folks ride around in pickup trucks with flags that say: "fuck your feelings." Weird to see the pearl clutching today.
Haley: The idea that he condemned us was worse than Hillary calling us deplorables, was worse than Obama calling us extremists. He basically called us bad people
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Over the years I've worked a lot of military sexual assault and domestic violence stories, most of them involving Army SOF/Infantry officers. The commonalities between these cases, and specifically the traits of the abusers is pretty stunning in my opinion. My rant 🧵 below:.
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Is the CIA a hyper competent hunter killer force weaving a Byzantine web of conspiracy or a progressive hive hollowed out by DEI policies? Just curious because I'm not clear on how it can be both. .
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There is a huge chasm between what sigma male influencers think communal male cultures are vs. what they actually are.
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*gravelly voice* war. war is different now.
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It seems pretty clear that the Navy sat on the readings from their acoustic microphones until they positively visually confirmed the debris field. That isn't a conspiracy.
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That right there, is a breath of fresh air.
I still find this @margbrennan exchange the most illuminating/honest in how Biden thinks about Afghanistan .“Don’t you bear some responsibility for the outcome if the taliban ends up back no control & women end up losing the rights—-“. “No I don’t!”.
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If I get so senile that I'm critiquing basic training kids on the internet just smother me with a pillow and put me out of my misery.
Who knew decades of lowering standards and running off all your experienced leadership would have consequences--?.
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Another Green Beret, whose arrest sparked last week's dragnet, would moonlight as a bouncer at O'Donnell's which is a Special Forces bar in Southern Pines. He is alleged to have been pimping underaged girls to other SF soldiers.
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I don't fucking understand why we're doing this to ourselves as a country.
My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat.
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Huh. This used to be called colonialism when the west did it.
China to take over Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport for default on debt repayment. China has rejected Uganda's request to re-negotiate toxic clauses in the $200m loan picked six years ago for the Airport expansion. The Airport is the only Intl Airport in the country.
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This is going to sound radical of me, but this is the attitude of third world countries where the government does not trust its own citizens with the truth, that they won't teach them about their own past or the world today for fear that the elites will lose political control.
If we teach that the founding of the United States of America was somehow flawed. It was corrupt. It was racist. That's really dangerous. It strikes at the very foundations of our country.
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10th Special Forces Group veterans arrested for allegedly taking part in Venezuela coup plot. Luke Denman (ODA 0136) and Aaron Barry, went dark 8 days ago crossing the border. Worst part: CIA caught wind and tried to talk them out of it in Jamaica. Not a USG condoned op.
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Yet another guy questioned by authorities is a new Delta operator who came from the same battalion as the two above mentioned Special Forces soldiers. Stay tuned because you won't believe who came walking through the door at some of these drug and sex parties in Southern Pines.
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Military veterans turned CIA Global Response Staff (GRS) contractors turned Murder Incorporated assassins kill an auto exec's mistress and her boyfriend in Nashville for 900,000 bucks but leave the cops a paper trail a mile wide.
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Honestly, fuck whoever wrote this headline. Ask yourself why a 14 year old girl was so desperate not to go back to a children's home that she picked up a Kalashnikov and started spraying down police officers.
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Some day the full story about this will come out. Russian comms are 100% fucked unless they go dark and simply rely on verbally issued instructions or couriers. Somebody going to write a book about this and how some egg heads cracked the modern day enigma machine.
The United States (🇺🇸) will reportedly receive Russia's (🇷🇺) Krasukha-4 mobile electronic warfare system, which was recently captured in #Ukraine (🇺🇦). This is one of Russia's most capable Electronic Warfare Systems and potentially an intelligence goldmine.
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US tax payer dollars to rebuild what US tax payer dollars destroyed. It's hard not to feel a deep sense of cynicism and nihilism over this.
Today, we're announcing an additional $135 million dollars in humanitarian assistance — water, sanitation, maternal health — for Palestinians in Gaza as well as in the region. - @SecBlinken from Doha, Qatar.
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When I think back to the Gallagher case, what always stands out in my mind is that senior SEAL leaders colluded with one another to bury war crimes and the only reason why the story went public at all was because of junior NCOs who would not compromise with justice.
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This "I'm a billionaire and can have anything I want in life but I'm also a victim so feel sorry for me" schtick is the most god damn exhausting thing I've seen in a while. It's not enough that they get to lord over us, they also need the public to love and adore them.
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It's like the covert ops olympics right now. Sleepy Joe really took the gloves off. I'm kind of shocked tbh. There is stuff going down right now that that Reagan would have recoiled from in horror. 2022 ain't 1987, that's for damn sure.
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Chinese communist propagandists make our military seem more badass than actual DOD recruitment campaigns. It's the USS Kraken death lord carrier vs standing around in the motor pool shouting hooah.
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It's an honor to interview a gent like this. DSC in Vietnam, maybe going to upgraded to a MOH. SF and Ranger Hall of Fame inductee. Willie Merkerson ran recon with MACV-SOG and served for decades in CIA Special Activities doing ops all over Africa.
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Not only were Afghans targeted with lethal strikes for using or touching a radio, but DOD would kill people if a Scan Eagle pilot thought maybe he saw an antenna sticking out from under his clothes for a moment, or caught (maybe) a glimpse of a tac vest.
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It is wild how many people use the term "doxxing" to describe typing someone's name into a search engine and pressing enter.
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I'm against war crimes, be they committed by Americans, Russians, Israelis, or any other military. I don't know why this is controversial for some people.
Israeli soldier admits he murdered an unarmed elderly Palestinian man who had his arms up in the air & begged to spare his life. The other soldiers applaud & praise him for it, shake his hand, give him a pat on the shoulder & say "all the respect"!
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Told friends earlier today that this idea to have Zelensky speak at a venue as trivial as the Oscars is inappropriate given the gravity of the situation in Ukraine. Guess that point was made pretty clear tonight.
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Biden's speech was refreshingly frank. Appreciate someone sticking to their guns and telling people the truth even if they don't want to hear it. Execution has been a mess, and that falls at his feet, but directionally this is correct.
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We're in the midst of an undeclared global war but it feels like no one is ready to say the words out loud yet.
JUST NOW: WSJ reveals that Russia has been providing targeting data to the Houthis for their attacks on ships in the Red Sea. Data was passed through members of Iran's IRGC who are embedded with the Houthis.
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Marian Thomas passed away yesterday. She was the Delta Force commander's secretary for decades, and known as a calming voice in the room. By some accounts she was the second member of Delta Force (right there with Col. Beckwith) when the unit was being formed.
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This is just sad. I'll lay this on you, yes there is a classified crash retrieval program, it's a SAP. It is about retrieving crashed UAVs from adversarial countries and has nothing to do with aliens. Don't be a sucker folks.
A former U.S. intelligence officer claims a classified program has recovered UFO wreckage of “nonhuman origin.” @rosscoulthart and @BrianEntin report on why the Air Force veteran is taking his claims to Congress: #VargasReports
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Like a dozen people ask me a day, are the guys in xyz picture FBI/DeltaForce/BlackWater/SEALs. You don't get it. Since 9/11 EVERY FUCKING ONE looks like this. Cool helmets, suppressors, plate carrier, multi-cam, none of that is an indicator of anything in 2020.
Asked who they’re with, these guys say only that they’re with “The Department of Justice.”
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10th SFG soldier Matthew Livelsberger, who took his own life & blew himself up in Vegas, served in the CIF and in the Jedburgh company. He was liked, respected, & not in trouble with the unit. I'm told a well known mil podcast will be running his manifesto tomorrow. (no, not me).
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These virtue signal flags give me douche chills. Call me old fashion but the red, white, and blue is just fine without any additional flair for patriotic correctness.
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Currently enjoying GWOT vets saying verbatim the same shit I heard from vets in the 1990s when I was thinking of joining. All the good guys got out, it's a PC Army now, women taking over, etc, etc. Time is a flat circle, and it's always banal and dumb.
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What the actual fuck is this guy rambling about?.
Elon Musk says if done right, X could become 'half of the global financial system'.
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I sleep soundly in my bed tonight, because somewhere out there a Navy SEAL is signing a book deal and exclusive movie rights to the story of how he was twenty steps removed from the alleged Soleimani strike.
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It is not too late to do a Band of Brothers style mini-series about MACV-SOG, but it will be if they wait another ten years.
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This guy's assets, the ones pertaining to national security, should be nationalized. When the balloon goes up in the PACOM AOR we can't have this idiot's thumb on the scales for the enemy.
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Show physical courage on the battlefield and you die a hero. Show moral courage when not in combat and you die lonely and forgotten. That's why most people won't do it. Why choose the hard right when you can choose the easy wrong? The offered incentives speak for themselves.
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Reconnected with an old friend who works federal human trafficking cases. At some point we may need to have an adult conversation about the former SOF guys LARPing as counter human trafficking crusaders, and you guys ain't gonna like it.
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This week has driven home for me that we've learned nothing. We're one major terror attack away from doing Iran and having the Patriot Act 2 shoved down our throats. There are few guardrails against it, moderate voices will be shouted down, and most of you will cheer for it.
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ISIS-K member who planned the Abbey Gate bombing got smoke checked this evening. More to follow.
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There is a dark irony in how we tear into veteran entrepreneurs for selling coffee, Ranger t-shirts, or for writing books. enlisted guys trying to make a living. But the O's sell out to the highest bidder and that's a-okay.
Recently retired General Mark Milley is now an advisor to JP Morgan Chase bank and has embraced the lucrative paid speaking circuit, represented by the same agency as Hillary Clinton.
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We seriously need to go back to the drawing board. Previous assessments were that these guys were going to jam and spoof us into oblivion, shut down our global GPS network, etc.
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Some of this stuff is so over the top that I honestly would not have believed it if there wasn't video of it.
Khan Younis | . Israeli soldiers from the 66th battalion film the mosque with a drone, observing that it is completely empty with nothing in it, having already been destroyed. They proceed to blow it up, reducing it to dust ->
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I broke off comms with my former Team Sergeant 2 years ago because he was posting things that implied violence against elected officials. When I confronted him I said he'd have the feds banging on his door. He assured me he had it all figured out and was playing 4D chess.
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I don't care what your views are, this chick is weird af.
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Hit up the PAO at US Army Pacific for the backstory/veracity on this and asked for a reply by COB. Now I'm just left in suspense. At 3AM tonight I'll be staring at my ceiling wondering about how to say, "Eat My Ass" in Chinese.
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I find it both mildly amusing as well as terrifying that the 75th Ranger Regiment is doing a 15-6 investigation into who allegedly leaked documents to me, rather into how and why an alleged criminal slipped into their ranks.
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I hope the Ukrainian government is inviting international observers and officials from the ICC and other relevant organizations to travel to sectors held by Russian forces up until now. The world needs to see this and evidence needs to be processed.
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Maybe it sounds trite, but every time I interview a survivor of sexual assault in the military I'm shocked. Not that it is surprising that it happens, but the way the military fails to address the issue is systemic and intentional.
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It's crazy to me how old people literally have no idea what is actually being taught to kids in schools. They should ask their grand kids instead of believing everything in the boomer chain emails they get.
Tuberville: All of this woke, transgender athletes, CRT, 1619. We don't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic anymore. You know half the kids in this country, when they graduate, can’t read the diploma.
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They were cultivated, and if you look back 5-6 yrs, you would find a propaganda program that specifically targeted American veterans. It was shocking to see Cold War era Special Forces soldiers say that Putin was a good, strong leader, and defender of Christianity.
"The folks who rely the most on accurate, timely intelligence, literally for their lives when they go into combat, these special forces troops have fallen for a lie, they've fallen for bad intel, they've been duped" - @FrankFigliuzzi1 w/ @NicolleDWallace
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I would like to see these SOF veterans selling "leadership" and "mindset" training flip the script and offer training to their own peer group on how to instead of bringing SOF culture to corporate America, learn how they can integrate back into society as well adjusted people.
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After talking about veterans and QAnon for months, I finally wrote an op-ed about why this toxic swamp is so appealing to many of them, including former SOF guys. I hate to use the term ticking time bomb, but the danger is there.
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I've written a fair amount about JSOC and the CIA over the years, often times some darker stories about things going wrong. I hope Americans understand that right now they are doing the right thing, and on the right side of this conflict.
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In American culture you are not allowed to say what this is.
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I have no particular issue with Russian soldiers and I think it is tragic that so many are dying for one man's vanity. But it is what it is.
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When do we get a "Top Gun" film about a A-10 pilot? The protagonist should be a five foot three girl from Missouri who dips Copenhagen. Script writes itself, it's like permission to build your own printing press and run off sheets of $100 bills.
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The gov needs to institute some discipline in what appears to be a completely undisciplined force before something irreversibly bad happens.
Israeli soldiers severely beat Palestinian Journalist Mustafa Haruf, who works for Turkish public agency Anadolu, and threaten him with live fire and in East Jerusalem. He is hospitalized with serious head injuries. All broadcasted live by CNNTurk .
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The "non-combat related incident" was a murder.
Today we remember Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar who died on this day three years ago from a non-combat related incident in Mali. SSG Melgar was assigned to 2nd Battalion, @3rdSFGroup. De Oppresso Liber!
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I know some folks get upset when I talk about veterans and how many are predisposed towards conspiracy theories, but I'm also upset that guys I was close friends with now accuse me of being part of a clandestine Marxist conspiracy to destroy America b/c I don't support one guy.
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Yikes.
I think 20th Special Forces Group has some fucking explaining to do.
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The "everything I don't like is a government conspiracy" people are having a moment right now.
UFO whistleblower David Grusch’s wife called him an “alcoholic” and pled with him to get help amid a drunken rage for which he was institutionalized in 2018. A similar incident took place in 2014. He and a friendly journalist are accusing me of using confidential medical records.
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Give my latest story for Yahoo News a read. It is about a DEVGRU operator named Bill Mulder who took his own life, & the efforts his widow and brother-in-law have gone to make sure that America's spies and clandestine soldiers can get mental health care.
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Man, this Elon guy is proof that money can't buy happiness. Dude just seems sad and miserable.
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Motivational advice from me, a dude who was never a SEAL: wake up at 8am and pour yourself a cup of coffee like a normal ass person not trying to prove anything to anyone else cause you're a grown up now.
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300+ days into this conflict and the IDF has been unable to pacify a 25 mile strip of land sandwiched between their own country and the sea. It may be time to ask some difficult questions about strategic goals and what is realistically achievable. Just a thought.
Only three of Hamas’ 24 battalions have been destroyed by Israel’s 9 month brutal offensive in Gaza, according to forensic analyses of Hamas units. The battered north of the strip has seen a significant resurgence. Military experts say that Israel’s heavy-handed bombardment +
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Chinese will weld you into your apartment, Russians will send soldiers to steal your washer/dryer. Fellas, this is not the alternative to the "decadent" west many of you think it is.
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The intelligence community will not be embarrassed, the diplomatic signaling and leaks are part of deliberate messaging. I've never heard of an intelligence service getting a black eye for avoiding a war before.
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Are we ready to stage a generalized revolt against ex-SOF dudes trying to sell their bullshit "leadership" grift to corporate America, despite coming from a world with a formalized hierarchy, no profit incentive, and no customer+two failed conflicts? I feel you're ready for it.
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This is how they do it in third world countries. Their SOF guys get used as glorified bodyguards.
We don’t train Navy SEALs to guard political candidates while they play golf.
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I remember reporting this at the time and basically no one believing me, which was a bit unnerving considering how we walked right up to the precipice in those few days.
The fact remains that trump’s secretary of defense is stating on the record publicly here that as president trump tried to order the US military to deploy and shoot US protesters in 2020.
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I find it interesting that Israel can conduct precision HVT strikes on targets in Syria, but in Gaza they will just drop on anything with a pulse with apparently no targeting criteria.
🧵1/9.An Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other at a World Central Kitchen convoy escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, according to defense sources familiar with the details.
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"Imperialist oligarchies" that offer 40k enlistment bonuses and free college for 2-4 yrs of civil service where, lets be real, the vast majority will never hear a shot fired in anger. It's not a bad deal for a 18 year old who doesn't have many opportunities.
In rural western New York, preying on the poor like all imperialist oligarchies
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It is hilarious that I keep getting tagged in various rants, so once again I am here to remind you that I'm the real Jack Murphy, the ex-Ranger turned journalist guy. Not the "masculinity expert" that "likes to watch." I'm not the dude you saw on Tim Poole.
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I will never not share this whenever I see it.
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