Welcome back folks! It's Monday, and over the weekend we discussed Mike Vining & Pat McNamara's time at Delta. But, as anyone in the firearms community knows, you can't discuss The Unit without Larry Vicker's name coming up.
Strap in. It's going to get ugly.
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Many of you are familiar with his prolific firearms development work - the HK 416, the HK 45, the TangoDown Glock accessories. But to truly understand Larry, you have to look at the events that forged him.
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Delta's origin has been covered in depth, but here's a TL:DR; Beckwith did an exchange with SAS, came back, and fought for a direct action US version. It took years but the evolving threat of 70s era terrorism & worse, disco, convinced leaders that the capacity was needed.
Today we're going to talk about another well known SMU legend, Pat McNamara.
Pat spent 21 years in SF, with 13 in Delta. He retired in 2005. Unfortunately this means that he experienced some dark, terrible things during his service. I'm going to share what I've learned.
The year is 1984. Pat is a young trooper, a "cherry" in his own words, freshly assigned to reactivated 1st Group. He's been through some of the toughest training the Army has. Van Halen's seminal album 1984 is working through the charts with Jump, Panama & Hot for Teacher
Unfortunately the 80s also produced some awful music. And Pat was a young man who enjoys pretty ladies.
As such, we can say with confidence that he was forced to endure videos like Bananarama's "Cruel Summer" while out on the prowl.
Oh, I see, you've are just completely ignorant. Since others might be similarly uninformed,
1, it doesn't happen in countries with gun control, when cherry picking postage stamp sized countries with populations roughly the same as Rhoade Island and ignoring places like Mexico
2, The US isn't Europe, or Asia, or South America. We kill more people without guns than all those countries do by all methods combined (including guns). We're a violent country and gullible slackwits like yourself don't think past the surface.
3, the lion's share of those "mass shootings" that happen "every other day" are committed by people who've been through the criminal justice system repeatedly. They're already banned from having guns. They're banned from even having ammo. Most certainly can't buy from stores.