jillycat
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Both of the authors that I am referring two are confirmed seals. I will keep one author anonymous as he is deceased. Neither he nor the police were smoking anything. Though he related the incident as "fact" in his book, it never happened. The SEAL in question was not one dimensional. Then again, few people are. In his case, he was both a war hero and was also known to tell "fish tales". The reference to the second author is Dick Marcinko. He is also a confirmed SEAL and has written about twenty fiction books in which he leads a team that takes independent action against a variety of bad guys.
Never claimed that these exist.
Nope, never claimed that either.
Really? That is why I said "I agree with everything, including your admiration for SEAL commandos (if anything, we need more of them)". Yet, you chose to ignore that and launch a lecture.
Good grasp of the obvious.
Ok, just think about what you just said. How can make such a statement? Unless you have met all Seals, you can't. In fact, this statement is contradictory to your other statements (accurate) that there are a few bad apples in any group of people.
Contrary to the implications made in your lecture, I can easily acknowledge that the number of bad apples in the SEALS is extremely low- almost non existent. Any chance, however, that a new SEAL might have blurred those lines? I was hesitant to make my post because I knew it could bring this sort of blind response.
I'm not sure why this has angered you so much. In regard to this crime, I'm honestly not sure what your point is about SEALs who write books. My point was that no fictional tale of SEAL vigilante adventures is consistent with 'real' training or operations, so that's not correlative to this murder.
You posted this:
"There is a chance that this incident might be distantly linked to a vague idea that SEAL commandos also have "licenses to kill" and can be semi official vigilantes. For example, one SEAL war hero who was brave even by special forces standards, also wrote "fish tale" accounts of being a vigilante where he killed criminals on several occasions and was allowed by police to leave the scene of a double homicide after he flashed some sort of SEAL identification card or orders."
What exactly was your point? That these books reflect that this perpetrator didn't know if his military job extended to monitoring civilians and killing them in an argument that HE started?
I would think of it like this - BUD/S is BUD/s, no matter how many SEALs anyone knows. Contrary to your claim that one must know all SEALs to be certain they aren't confused about where the Navy ends and the rest of the world begins, the Navy can be certain of the purpose for which it trains, and that it's training sailors who know they're in the Navy, not a police academy, child *advertiser censored* unit, or Messianic mission school. So Krah is sure why and how he earned a Trident and that it had nothing to do with civilian picture taking.
I'm familiar with Dick Marcinko's books. Let's not forget that Marcinko did some federal prison time for illegally monetizing for profit his skill set beyond what the Navy trained or authorized him to do. His first book was written (in prison) to pay his massive legal fees. Don't know him personally, but I'm confident in saying it's implausible that as a commander of a Team he wasn't sure where the lines were in the Dept of NavSpecWar.
As I said, there are a lot of SEAL tale books, some fictional, some historical accounts. None of them are related to why a guy like Krah committed murder. If Krah's additional history is accurate, he decided before ever joining the Navy that he had "license". Who knows, that may or may not have been observed in his career. If it was and it was ignored, then shame on those who looked the other way. Whatever the case, he owns his crime. And Kris is owed justice for being killed.