Thread: Navy Seals raid on Daesh in yemen on the weekend. What went wrong

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I don't really know how high to rate the seals, but during a special forces exercise a few years my section was guarding a "high interest political prisoner" and the seals were attempting to snatch him from us.

My section, half composed of "green" soldiers...ie limited experienced , brassed up their reconnaisance several times and the exercise commander called me up on the radio and asked me to relax my defences.

We were doing what any good infantry section would do in the circumstances, ie. patrolling and maintaining the security of our hide.

The commander insisted so I pulled back my men , went and sat in the unlocked CWA tearoom where we housed and kept the "prisoner" and played 500 and just let the famous seals storm the tearooms making heaps of noise and screaming at us. We tried to keep playing 500 but that ****ed them off and they tried to rough us up then.

They were so noisy when we had our defences up it was dead easy to see them and intercept them.

Australian soldiers in the same situation would be lucky to be seen or heard.

Thats just my point of view and a personal obvservation of seals.

I've read similar stories about the Yanks in Vietnam, but I wasn't there. Maybe someone who was might have something to share.

I think the other part of this is more the choosing of good bedfellows when running a joint op. Pretty sure Erik Prince (Blackwater) has a battalion setup in UAE to help the Emirati armed forces, mostly made up of foreigners.
Bit hard to trust.

They self destructed a downed Osprey, bit expensive. Sounds like a cluster all round.

No one will ever know but the people on the ground.

The other thing is, The US is arming the very people who orchestrated 9/11.

Inside the Yemen raid: Women al Qaeda fighters surprised US forces - CNNPolitics.com

A stuff up. And loss of face.

Yemen Raid Had Secret Target: Al Qaeda Leader Qassim Al-Rimi - NBC News

I really hope Mr trumble doesn't commit any of the ADF to Trumps payback mission. I believe he will do most anything to save face, and while I have the utmost confidence in US special forces, I have very little in the Trump admi. to get it right.

What Went Wrong in Yemen? New Details on Deadly Raid That Left Navy SEAL Dead - NBC News

From my perspective why do we always give America a hard time trying to beat an enemy that is out to get us all.

Mistakes get made on all sides but at least I do believe American soldiers try their best like ours do.

Personally I am thankful we have brave soldiers in both our countries still prepared to go out and tackle these enemies.

Originally Posted by EastFreo

From my perspective why do we always give America a hard time trying to beat an enemy that is out to get us all.

Mistakes get made on all sides but at least I do believe American soldiers try their best like ours do.

Personally I am thankful we have brave soldiers in both our countries still prepared to go out and tackle these enemies.

No one is pointing the finger at the military. That has never been insinuated. This mission had been planned for many months, there must have been a reason the Obama administration hadn't given it the go ahead. I believe the Trump administration to be more reckless, and it is always the military who suffer.