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Sep 24, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
New GAO report on federal law enforcement tactical teams. I'm particularly interested in the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and the Coastie units. Here we get some interesting data on deployments and personnel. For instance, we learn there are 149 HRT members. Image
"FBI officials stated that the HRT was deployed to Washington, D.C., in response to the civil unrest and protests. The reported primary responsibility of team members was to protect federal facilities and potentially respond as a QRF in the event of injured officers."
Interesting stuff on DOE's nuclear transport security unit. A lot of ex-SOF guys there and have told me it is a boring job. Would not want to be one of those guys though. Had someone tell me the contingency if bad guys are about to capture a weapon is to just JDAM the vehicle. Image
This report appears to be missing a number of other tactical teams however.

gao.gov/assets/710/709…

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Aug 22, 2023
So I have in my possession a rather humorous email from the Delta Force chain of command which is trying to fight the tide of culture and technology to put the kibosh on VUMs (Veteran Unit Members, in their words) from going on podcasts or talking about historical missions.
The email claims that VUMs have appeared in digital and traditional media to share vignettes of their military service, which puts Delta at risk, although the email fails to provide any examples, evidence, or proof of this. The email harps on unenforceable NDAs of course.
I've never seen a vet prosecuted for breaking an NDA, and if Delta is serious about this they need to make their operators sign the same type of paperwork that CIA officers sign. Shit or get off the pot fellas. While it is within their purview to reminds VUMs of classification
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Jun 16, 2023
The Havana Syndrome story continues to fascinate me and I've come to 1 of 2 conclusions

1. The CIA is absolutely terrifying their employees into silence about what is happening
or
2. There are groups of former CIA personnel making up stories and selectively leaking to the press
I do think that on some level there is a real phenomena taking place, and the tech is nothing exotic. It's just a microwave weapon, which is mainstream science and openly in use by LE agencies. But the closer you get to Havana, the farther away from it you are,
as stories evaporate, witnesses pull a fade, and evidence is not forthcoming. So either the agency is still bullying and scaring current and former members about their health condition or there is some exaggeration taking place.
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Jun 16, 2023
I thrive on the positive feedback we receive from the podcast. Check out the latest:

USG Propagandists,
More war crime story hour and whitewashing of the Ukrainian Nazi army of late I see! Again, why not have on someone who isn’t going to pal around and laugh about all the US
war crimes you two find so funny and/or excusable because USA does it? Or is each and everyone who calls you out a Putin propagandist and Kremlin agent? Fact is, you don’t even work for the American people and never did. You murdered people across the other side of the planet in
their own country for Pizza Hut, Wakenhut, Booze Allen Hamilton and all the other war profiteers who benefited so well from your dirty work. Until propagandists like you come clean and change your genocidal views, you’ll have to consider people like me needling you and exposing
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Jun 8, 2023
I feel like there is a collective amnesia about Ukraine, a glossing over how poorly they performed in '14, how wrecked their military was, and how hesitant America was to support them. For instance, there was a huge food fight behind the scenes before we provided Javelins.
Fast forward to today, and we're told that Ukraine is fielding UDT teams in the Baltic Sea blowing pipelines, they're running sabotage ops behind enemy lines, drone swarm attacks in Moscow, sweeping disinformation ops, precision targeting, running networks of agents, etc
Sure, these are smart determined people fighting for their survival and I respect that. But some of these capabilities took the US decades and billions of dollars to develop. Sure our defense industry is bloated and Ukraine's is streamlined for war but that doesn't fully explain
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Feb 16, 2023
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:
1. Abused spouses write their husband's grad papers, war college papers, etc. Their husband is as intellectually stunted as he is emotionally undeveloped and has no interest in developing these skills. These officers are dumber than a box of rocks & need to cheat on their papers.
2. Expectations of portraying the perfect Christian nuclear family in public & military events. Wives are supposed to stay at home and rear children and attend unit functions. The Army even has classes to train them to be perfect little field grade wives like it is 1955.
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Struggling to finish writing this article about a SOF operator who took his own life. It isn't that the story isn't compelling or important, it is. It's that my subconscious mind is literally freezing my body and preventing me from writing.
For a decade now I written stories about soldiers murdering other soldiers, soldier suicides, overdoses, domestic abuse, sexual assault, missing persons and all kinds of horrible shit that service men and women endure. It's finally caught up with me as well.
I've talked to so many widows, mothers, gold star family members, and former team mates over the years. Mostly these articles are met with reflexive denials, charges that I write them for the money (LOL, wtf?), and the military launches investigations to figure out who talked.
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