I bet they are rarely complimentary........the DEVGRU guy who did the "No Easy Day" has been all but ostracized(sp?) by his former shipmates......
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...that is the general perspective. My one buddy, an E9 career Special Operator (And about the nicest guy you will ever meet...) was fairly straightforward about how he felt about Chris Kyle and his book...not really happy about it.
Yup, what happens at work tends to stay there with those guys.
If you notice, there aren't a ton of books written about stuff like that by the boots on the ground. National/personal/team security is only part of the reason.
Well the head of the Australian Army is fairly unequivocal is his position on women in the military.......
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/8797666/Army-chief-becomes-unlikely-feminist-hero
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/8797666/Army-chief-becomes-unlikely-feminist-hero
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Looks like it'd be fairly unpleasant to be on the end of a proper in person bollocking from the General.
Yep I don't think you get to be a General or above in any army (cept maybe WWII era Italy) without being a right hard bastard.
Cripes, I'm not Australian, or in the Army, and I felt ashamed of myself watching that. He makes his point very well.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/13/commission-finds-no-compelling-medical-reason-to-exclude-transgender-americans-from-military/
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Murican uniforms tend to tend towards banana republic - pretty ridiculous and not very functional. I always thought the Germans had it about right.
The comments. Wow.
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