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In reply to the discussion: Navy Seal who allegedly shot Bin Laden says US military has abandoned him [View all]toby jo
(1,269 posts)They do hard work, dangerous work, but it's all ladled out: the job, paycheck, future, 'toys', lifestyle, retirement. In civvy life, you have to go and get it - a different kind of difficult. I see it as a reality adjustment, one this guy hasn't made yet.
In related news - a friend who was in the marine spec forces - recon, told me awhile back that the guy who wrote the book on being a sniper would be 'taken care of'. 'They don't like that', he said, 'you watch'. Here we go again, I thought. The guy was Chris Kyle. Chris was the guy shot at the firing range by the ptsd guy he was 'helping'.
Now before I knew this guy I would have said oh shit happy coincidence. But now, no. Heard, and lived, too much. Spec forces guys usually just shut up - it's a class thing, at least that's what I always thought. It's a danger thing, too, apparently. Real ugly stories out there. They make good money. But it's no questions allowed. After retirement, from what I can tell, these guys are watched for 2 things, going rogue, and writing. Some stuff should come out, some shouldn't. It's dicey. I wonder how long our hero here will be allowed to go on like this. He sounds like a major whiner on one level, but he 's up against some pretty dark stuff on another. I think he'll shut up.