Re: [Epic] Chat line mailing list

From: Timothy J. Kilgore <tkilgore_at_...>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:58:25 -0400 (EDT)

At 01:19 AM 4/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 05:08 AM 4/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>I have to agree, with all but one point, SEALs are trained not only to
>>break things, but also to kill things quietly and effeciently. I have
>>been in bars where other military people got up to give the SEALs seats,
>>it impressed the hell out of me.
>
>Okay, yeah, they are supposed to kill folks, too. I've never seen anyone
>get up to give a SEAL a seat, and I know I wouldn't. I've only met a
>handful of them, but they are just like most military guys - there are good
>ones and those who slipped through the cracks. One thing most people don't
>know is that yes, they get sent to all these different schools, but they
>only have to actually complete a few of them. For example, I think they
>have to complete 2 of the five jumps at jump school. Yippee. Also, the
>highest rate of washouts at Marine sniper school is Navy SEALS. They can
>get into the program easily, but they are all cowboys or cowboy wannabes
>(not that that makes them bad guys) and don't have the particular kind of
>discipline it takes to complete that training. Oh, yeah, my infantry
>reserve unit was supposed to cross train with some of them to teach them
>mortar techniques. They got called away to do something else, but it was
>actually printed on the official training schedule. So obviously they are
>not gods among men.
>

As always it has to be your own motivation or else you wash out, who was
that boxer who decided to get in the marines? However Navy SEALS do have
the access to the nsatiest form of armed and unarmed combat. Just doesn't
mean that theyalways will try. I'm sure there is a high amount of I'm a
SEAL you aren't bow to me. But there unarmed combat is truly vicious.


                Timothy J. Kilgore
                tkilgore_at_...

You know Aerosmith is getting old when they start singing songs about thier
aching joints "Falling in Love is Hard on your Knees"
Received on Wed Apr 23 1997 - 19:58:25 UTC