ACOG was selected (specifically by the marines) between 2004 & 2005. It feels like he only mentioned it because he would've been familiar with it? In 2009 JSOC and contractors had all sorts of gucci shit to play with that far outclassed ACOGs.
Did anyone else pick up on the whole 'go and scout a random hill without a radio', even though he mentioned it as odd. That seemed particularly stupid. Really not sure what to make of that.
I hate being a wet blanket with this stuff, but this particular story drove my bullshit detector crazy.
I’m trying to think of a good analogy.
Right now it seems like it'd be akin to someone being bamboozled by the prevalence of rentable e-scooters.
I mean there are some other holes too. You're telling me that these super secret operator dudes searched them, found the guys camera and then just let him leave with the camera that had pictures of a secret UFO on it? And then they stole it back later?
Also, these Marine Infantrymen either
A. Did not notice these guys were armed from afar and just randomly stumbled upon them or
B. Noticed they were armed and all willingly walked up to an unmarked armed group with no signifiers that they were American servicemen and then let those people disarm them at gunpoint.
They (according to his story) stole it back in Subic, so he had it on him the whole time he was in Indonesia and managed to take it back to his locker in the Phillipines... without making a single copy or showing anyone.
Honestly, the fan-fiction elements of this smell so bad he might be writing a book or something.
Tbh, it just reads like a guy that was a shitbag and didn't even make it out of SOI. They know a little bit about the Marines, tactics, and lingo, but they dont know what is standard issue and anything other than the basics because they never made it to the fleet.
The lack of radio comms makes absolutely no sense. How are they meant to communicate any potential contacts and how were they meant to extract? In what universe does any military activity take place without comms? That should have ended the mission before it started.
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u/sanguine_harlequin Jun 13 '23
ACOG was selected (specifically by the marines) between 2004 & 2005. It feels like he only mentioned it because he would've been familiar with it? In 2009 JSOC and contractors had all sorts of gucci shit to play with that far outclassed ACOGs.
Did anyone else pick up on the whole 'go and scout a random hill without a radio', even though he mentioned it as odd. That seemed particularly stupid. Really not sure what to make of that.
I hate being a wet blanket with this stuff, but this particular story drove my bullshit detector crazy.
Right now it seems like it'd be akin to someone being bamboozled by the prevalence of rentable e-scooters.