THE RECENT SHOOTING AT FORT HOOD, ONCE AGAIN, PROMPTED ME TO LOOK FURTHER INTO HOW OUR MILITARY TRAINS OUR TROOPS.
YOU MUST BE AWARE THAT EVERY GENERATION IN MY FAMILY HAS SEEN VOLUNTEERS SIGN UP FOR SERVICE.
SOME WENT ON TO BECOME PART OF THE "SPECIAL FORCES" WHO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL TRAINING.
SOME WORKED IN AREAS THEY STILL ARE NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCUSS.
I KNOW DOZENS OF CURRENTLY DEPLOYED MILITARY AND HAVE SAT AND LISTENED LONG TO THEIR STORIES, THEIR COMPLAINTS, THEIR FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCES, JUST AS I LISTENED FOR DECADES TO TWO SPOUSES AND TWO UNCLES (SADNESS AT THEIR GOING PEACE TO THEIR ASHES) AND MY FATHER, WHO WERE WORLD WAR 2, KOREAN, AND/OR VIETNAM VETERANS..
WE WERE A MILITARY FAMILY, SOLDIERS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WARRIORS IN BATTLE SINCE BEFORE THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA.
I WILL NEVER PRINT FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR TROOPS.
I AM DEDICATED TO APPRECIATING THEIR SERVICE AS MUCH AS A HUMAN CAN.
I "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" BY WISHING THEY COULD ALL COME HOME AND STAY HOME.
I BELIEVE WE WOULD BE BEST SERVED BY NEVER SENDING A U.S. SOLDIER TO ANY FOREIGN NATION EVER AGAIN, UNLESS THAT NATION ATTACKS THE U.S.
THAT SAID, I FIND THAT THE WAY OUR MILITARY TRAINS OUR TROOPS IS BOTH IMMORAL AND UNETHICAL AS PERTAINS TO THE TROOPS THEMSELVES.
OUR TROOPS AND THEIR WELFARE ARE NOT THE PRIORITY OF THE CURRENT U.S. MILITARY, AND MAY HAVE NEVER BEEN.
THEY ARE TRAINED IN A WAY THAT DISRUPTS THEIR CONSCIENCES, THAT DELETES THEIR INDIVIDUALITY, THAT TOO OFTEN ROBS THEM OF THE ABILITY TO REASON LOGICALLY, AND INSTILLS IN THEM A HOSTILITY AND AGGRESSIVENESS THAT THEY FIND HARD TO DEAL WITH ONCE WAR IS DONE.
THIS THE STORY OF JUST ONE GROUP, BUT OTHER "ELITE FORCES". "SPECIAL FORCES" HAVE RECEIVED THE SAME DIRECTIVES, HAVE ENGAGED IN SIMILAR (AND EVEN WORSE) TACTICS. .
YOU MUST BE AWARE THAT EVERY GENERATION IN MY FAMILY HAS SEEN VOLUNTEERS SIGN UP FOR SERVICE.
SOME WENT ON TO BECOME PART OF THE "SPECIAL FORCES" WHO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL TRAINING.
SOME WORKED IN AREAS THEY STILL ARE NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCUSS.
I KNOW DOZENS OF CURRENTLY DEPLOYED MILITARY AND HAVE SAT AND LISTENED LONG TO THEIR STORIES, THEIR COMPLAINTS, THEIR FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCES, JUST AS I LISTENED FOR DECADES TO TWO SPOUSES AND TWO UNCLES (SADNESS AT THEIR GOING PEACE TO THEIR ASHES) AND MY FATHER, WHO WERE WORLD WAR 2, KOREAN, AND/OR VIETNAM VETERANS..
WE WERE A MILITARY FAMILY, SOLDIERS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WARRIORS IN BATTLE SINCE BEFORE THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA.
I WILL NEVER PRINT FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR TROOPS.
I AM DEDICATED TO APPRECIATING THEIR SERVICE AS MUCH AS A HUMAN CAN.
I "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" BY WISHING THEY COULD ALL COME HOME AND STAY HOME.
I BELIEVE WE WOULD BE BEST SERVED BY NEVER SENDING A U.S. SOLDIER TO ANY FOREIGN NATION EVER AGAIN, UNLESS THAT NATION ATTACKS THE U.S.
THAT SAID, I FIND THAT THE WAY OUR MILITARY TRAINS OUR TROOPS IS BOTH IMMORAL AND UNETHICAL AS PERTAINS TO THE TROOPS THEMSELVES.
OUR TROOPS AND THEIR WELFARE ARE NOT THE PRIORITY OF THE CURRENT U.S. MILITARY, AND MAY HAVE NEVER BEEN.
THEY ARE TRAINED IN A WAY THAT DISRUPTS THEIR CONSCIENCES, THAT DELETES THEIR INDIVIDUALITY, THAT TOO OFTEN ROBS THEM OF THE ABILITY TO REASON LOGICALLY, AND INSTILLS IN THEM A HOSTILITY AND AGGRESSIVENESS THAT THEY FIND HARD TO DEAL WITH ONCE WAR IS DONE.
THIS THE STORY OF JUST ONE GROUP, BUT OTHER "ELITE FORCES". "SPECIAL FORCES" HAVE RECEIVED THE SAME DIRECTIVES, HAVE ENGAGED IN SIMILAR (AND EVEN WORSE) TACTICS. .
US Army Sergeant Major (Retired) Joe Garner describes what was probably the first parachute
jump with a W54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) in 1960 as
part of PROJECT GREENLIGHT in his autobiography - Code Name: Copperhead.
SGM Garner, a Special Forces soldier with many years of combat
experience, described his high altitude jump from a H-21 helicopter on
the back side of Fort Bragg, also the fictional setting of the special
munitions depot in Lost Key. Joe reported that he dropped faster
than anticipated in his modified chute and ended up on the ground with
all the laces busted out from his boots.
ONE VERSION OF THE SUITCASE NUKES, ABOVE.
In the Navy scenario,
the two-man team would place the weapon package in the target location,
set the timer, and swim out into the ocean where they would be
retrieved by a submarine or other high-speed water craft. The parachute
jumps and the retrieval procedures were practiced extensively.
Reportedly 300 SADMs were assembled and remained in the US arsenal until 1989.
A WASTEBASKET VERSION OF THE SADM.
THE BALTIMORE SUN REPORTED, July 27, 1994
"U.S. commandos once assigned to suicide missions"
<<For many years, American commandos were assigned to volunteer teams with the suicidal mission of detonating small nuclear weapons at very close range, according to authoritative military sources.
THE BALTIMORE SUN REPORTED, July 27, 1994
"U.S. commandos once assigned to suicide missions"
<<For many years, American commandos were assigned to volunteer teams with the suicidal mission of detonating small nuclear weapons at very close range, according to authoritative military sources.
The
so-called "Green Light" Army demolition squads were supposed to deliver,
arm and then "watch the device until it went off" to assure that enemy
forces did not interfere with the explosion, said a former Special
Forces member trained in the mission.
"If
that meant staying inside the hydroelectric plant, standing 20 feet
away from the warhead, that's where you stayed," he said. "It was
suicide and we all knew it."
Retired Army Maj. Gen. David Einsel, deputy assistant secretary of defense for atomic energy from 1980 to 1985, confirmed the "Green Light" teams' assignment.
Man-portable nuclear warheads "were not the weapon of choice, and it had to be a very worthwhile mission or you weren't going to set it off in the first place," General Einsel added.
George
Grimes, spokesman for the U.S. Special Operations Command, said he
could not discuss the capabilities of forces assigned to the command.
The Special Forces member trained in nuclear detonation asked not to be
identified because, he said, he had signed confidentiality agreements
while in the Army program.
A classified Army manual on nuclear demolition supports his account and General Einsel's, and civilian experts in nuclear weapons say it is consistent with their understanding of nuclear war tactics.
No devices ever were actually fired by
the Army's tactical nuclear demolition teams. The last of 300 so-called
"backpack nukes" built for such missions were withdrawn from NATO
arsenals in 1988 and destroyed.
WHO WOULD EVER DREAM OF SENDING OUR TROOPS ON SUICIDE MISSIONS?
WE FIND THAT OUT FROM THE ARTICLE IN THE SUN...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER...A GENERAL HIMSELF.
President Eisenhower conceived of the highly classified U.S. tactical weapons program in the 1950s, hoping that ways could be found to use very small nuclear devices in combat.
The smallest weapon, armed with a 58-pound warhead and producing a
blast equal to only a few tons of TNT, was deployed in Europe in 1964.
It was designed to destroy Eastern Bloc bridges, tunnels, dams, canals
and other targets invulnerable to bombardment from the air.
The
warhead was drum-shaped, about 20 inches in diameter and 24 inches tall.
Two-man teams carried the devices in customized backpacks. One bore the
warhead, which was nicknamed "the monkey," according to the former Army
Special Forces commando; the other carried the firing mechanism.
Assembled, the device weighed about 160 pounds, according to the Nuclear
Weapons Databook, the definitive unclassified manual on the subject.
"They
practiced delivering it by land, sea and air; by static line, free
fall, HALO (high-altitude, low-opening parachute) jump and submarine; by
car, truck, train and just plain hiking it in," said the former
commando.
They'd disguise it as a trash can, a water cooler, a keg of beer. If somebody beside it pulled out a sextant, you'd think it was surveying gear," said the former commando.
According to Mr. Arkin, a cable
only 100 meters long ran from the blast site to the detonation team in
early versions of the device. "Believe it or not, for safety and
security reasons, it was operated without remote detonation. Somebody
actually had to push the button."
Later, use of a radio activated
"timer option" was permitted. But protecting the device still required
that demolition team and their squad of 10 heavily armed and
cross-trained protectors stay fatally close to the warhead, the Special
Forces veteran said.
If the weapon were deeply buried in rock and
the detonation triggered by a radio transmission, "Green Light" teams
might have survived the explosion, General Einsel said.
They
probably would not have survived the radioactive fallout, according to
tables published in a classified 1971 Army field manual titled
"Employment of Atomic Demolition Weapons." It predicted heavy casualties
from fallout even at the lowest yields and even when the warhead was
buried 12 meters deep.
["Although demolition units were likely to perish, "delay in the onset of
effects . . . may permit some personnel to remain effective long enough
to influence a specific operation," the training manual states."]
One [NUCLEAR DEVICE] nearly got away in 1977, according to a former "Green Light" team member.
In
that incident the navigator of an Air Force MC-130 that was supposed to
drop a "Green Light" team a half mile inland from the Gulf of Mexico at
Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, got lost, he said.
The aircraft
dropped the team and their weapon more than|| TC mile offshore into
choppy seas. Eleven of the 12 squad members let their gear drop to the
bottom and took turns holding up the warhead two at a time. The twelfth
member swam ashore and found help. The warhead was saved, he said.>>
<end quoted Sun article>
<end quoted Sun article>
PERHAPS A LITTLE LESS CREDIBLE (THOUGH FACTUAL IN CONTENT) AND A BIT MORE BIASED IS THE REPORT IN RT (RUSSIA TODAY) FROM February 11, 2014.
In a detailed report by Foreign Policy, the publication
chronicles the creation of the Special Atomic Demolition Munition
(SAMD), a portable nuclear weapon that could be carried into
battlefield by a single solider. During the Cold War’s final 25
years, Navy SEALs and Army Special Forces were trained to carry
these “backpack nukes” beyond enemy lines where, if necessary,
they'd be used to destroy valuable infrastructure and keep
opposing forces at bay.
[NOTE: THE ARTICLE LINKED ABOVE, FOREIGN POLICY, IS RICH WITH PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.]
Concerned with the Soviet Union’s military advantage over the
United States and its allies in terms of manpower and traditional
weaponry, President Dwight Eisenhower looked to enhancing the
country’s nuclear capabilities as a way to level the playing
field. His “New Look” strategy, however, promised “massive
retaliation” to any form of aggression by the Soviet Union – a
bold strategy that in reality left the US with little room to
maneuver.
“In the event that communist forces launched a limited,
non-nuclear attack, the president would have to choose between
defeat at the hands of a superior conventional force or a
staggeringly disproportionate (and potentially suicidal)
strategic nuclear exchange that would kill hundreds of millions
of people," the report stated.
In an attempt to develop targeted nuclear weapons that wouldn’t cause as many casualties, the SAMD was born. Often strapped to a soldier’s back, the 58-pound bomb made it difficult for soldiers to maneuver through a war zone, and those chosen to carry the device – known as the “Green Light” teams – underwent extensive training to ensure they could deliver the bomb, even at the expense of their own lives.
"I think that my first reaction was that I didn't believe
it," former Green Light member Ken Richter told Foreign
Policy. "Because everything that I'd seen prior to that,
World War II, showed this huge weapon. And we were going to put
it on our backs and carry it? I thought they were joking.
US allies
were not particularly fond of the idea of detonating numerous
nuclear devices across their countries, while others within the
American military questioned the whole enterprise.
"In our hearts, we knew nobody was going to give control of
these to a bunch of big old boys running around the
countryside," Tom Davis, another Green Light member, told
Foreign Policy. "We just didn't believe it was ever going to
happen."
This, however, wasn't the only controversial idea the United
States tested during the Cold War. A lawsuit is currently
unfolding in federal court concerning a military program that subjected servicemen to
various secret drug and chemical experiments. The US hoped to
discover new ways to control human behavior, pinpoint weaknesses,
hypnotize, and increase an individual’s resistance to torture.
As a result, many former soldiers have come forward claiming that
their long-term health problems are a direct product of the
experiments conducted on them. The Department of Veterans Affairs
has generally declined to cover the health costs of these
individuals, though just recently a federal judge ruled the US
must notify all veterans of any potential health problems
stemming from the experiments.>>
<end quoted RT article>
<end quoted RT article>
"We were kamikaze pilots without the airplanes," said Louis Frank Napoli
Jr. of Tampa, Fla., a former enlisted man in the Army who said he
volunteered for the assignment.
WELL, IT WAS "IMPRESSIVE" ENOUGH THAT NORTH KOREA VOWS IT HAS ITS OWN VERSION OF THE AMERICAN SUICIDE UNITS THAT CARRY SIMILAR DEVICES, AND ARE JUST ITCHING TO USE THEM.
AMERICAN MILITARY'S TOP DOGS ARE DEDICATED TO PRESERVING THEIR SPECIAL UNITS BEYOND THE "WARS" IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
<<The Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, is scheduled for spending and personnel increases while the rest of the military looks to be making cuts.
In fact, the number of operators has doubled since 9/11, and their budget tripled — from $3.5 billion to $10.5 billion. The trend will likely continue as the U.S. is in the middle of a shift to "smaller footprint" type operations.>>
THE ABOVE ARTICLE MAKES MENTION OF A COUPLE OF SPECIAL UNITS NOT LISTED BY WIKIPEDIA AND OTHER SITES. [SEE LIST BELOW]
SPEC OPS WEATHERMAN, ANGLICO, ARMY CAG, FAST, MARSOC...
SOME OF THE "COURSES" THE SPECIAL ELITE FORCES ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE ARE RIGOROUS, DEMANDING, AND FEW PASS ENOUGH OF THESE, PLUS THE TRAINING, TO MAKE IT INTO THESE GROUPS.
- Military freefall
- Combat diving/Underwater egress training
- Survival Evasion Resistance Escape
- Jump master (parachuting)
- Combatives instructor
- Combat lifesaver (medical first response)
- Pathfinder (survival)
- Language
- Mountain Warfare
- Maritime interdiction and law enforcement
- Anti-terrorism/Force Protection
- CBRN-E Detection
- Vertical Insertion (commonly referred to as Fast Roping)
- Search and Rescue (limited)
- Port Protection/Anti-sabotage
- Underwater Port Security
- Canine Handling Teams (Explosive detection)
- Tactical Boat Operations
- Hook and Climb
- Non-compliant boarding operations
A [PROBABLY PARTIAL] list of active military special forces units:
THOUGH I CHOSE TO USE THIS LIST FROM WIKIPEDIA SO YOU MAY, ATYOUR LEISURE, EXPLORE EACH LINK GIVEN, THE SAME LIST APPEARS ON SEVERAL CURRENT WEBSITES.
I OFFER THE LIST SO WE MAY ALL CONTEMPLATE WHAT EACH OF THESE SPECIAL UNITS/SPECIAL FORCES MAY BE TRAINED FOR, AND REALIZE THE DANGERS INHERENT FOR THE MEN SO TRAINED. HOW "AT RISK" ARE THEY, AND WHY WOULD WE ASK THEM TO BASICALLY HAND OVER THEIR LIVES TO THEIR COMMANDERS WITHOUT THOUGHT, AND SOMETIMES, WITHOUT KNOWING THAT IS WHAT THEY WILL BE REQUIRED TO DO...
- Joint Special Operations Command
- Joint Communications Unit
- Joint Communications Integration Element (JCIE)
- Joint Intelligence Brigade (JIB)
- Joint Medical Augmentation Unit (JMAU)
- United States Army 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta
- United States Army Intelligence Support Activity
- United States Army Flight Concepts Division (FCD)
- United States Army Skills Evaluation Detachment (USASED)
- United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group
- 724 Special Tactics Group
- Aviation Tactics Evaluation Squadron (AVTEG)
- 66 Air Operations Squadron (66 AOS)
- 427th Special Operations Squadron
- United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC)[90]
- United States Army Special Forces Command[90]
- 75th Ranger Regiment[90]
- United States Army Special Operations Aviation Command (ARSOAC)[90]
- 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment "Night Stalkers"[90]
- Special Operations Aviation Training Battalion[90]
- Systems Integration Management Office (SIMO)[90]
- United States Army Special Operations Command Flight Detachment[90]
- Military Information Support Operations Command[90]
- 95th Civil Affairs Brigade[90]
- 528th Sustainment Brigade[90]
- Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC)[90]
- Naval Special Warfare Group 1: SEAL Teams 1, 3, 5, 7[90]
- Naval Special Warfare Group 2: SEAL Teams 2, 4, 8, 10[90]
- Naval Special Warfare Group 3: SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1[90]
- Naval Special Warfare Group 4: Special Boat Teams 12, 20, 22[90]
- Naval Special Warfare Group 10[90]
- Naval Special Warfare Group 11: SEAL Teams 17, 18 (Reserves)[90]
- Naval Special Warfare Center[90]
- United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group[90]
- Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)[90]
- 1st Special Operations Wing[90]
- 24th Special Operations Wing[90]
- 27th Special Operations Wing[90]
- 193d Special Operations Wing (ANG)[90]
- 919th Special Operations Wing (AFR)[90]
- 352nd Special Operations Group[90]
- 353rd Special Operations Group[90]
- United States Air Force Special Operations Training Center[90]
- United States Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC)[90]
- Marine Special Operations Regiment[90]
- Marine Special Operations Support Group[90]
- Marine Special Operations School[90]
YOU MAY SKIP PAST THE LIST IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR HISTORY.
AGAIN, I LEAVE LINKS INTACT AS SOME OF THESE UNITS MAKE FOR VERY INTERESTING, IF NOT GREATLY DISTURBING, READING.
FASCINATING...OFTEN HORRIFYING, SOME...
- The Civil War
- World War II
- 1st Air Commando Group
- 1st Special Service Force "Devil's Brigade"
- 2nd Air Commando Group
- 3rd Air Commando Group
- 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit "Alamo Scouts"
- Alaskan Scouts
- Army Ranger Battalions
- 5307th Composite Unit (provisional) "Merrill's Marauders"
- Marine Parachute Battalions
- Marine Raiders
- Marine Scout and Sniper Companies
- Marine Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion
- Observer Group
- Sino-American Cooperative Organization
- Naval Group, China (NGC)
- Naval Scouts and Raiders
- Navy Combat Demolition Units (NCDU)
- US Navy Beach Jumpers
- Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
- 2641st Special Group
- 2671st Special Reconnaissance Battalion
- 2677th Office of Strategic Services Regiment
- US Army Air Forces Carpetbaggers
- OSS Detachment 101
- OSS Detachment 202
- OSS Detachment 303
- OSS Detachment 404
- OSS Detachment 505
- OSS Jedburgh Teams
- OSS Operational Groups (OG)
- OSS Maritime Unit (MU)
- OSS Maritime Unit, Operational Swimmer Group
- OSS Weather Observers
- Special Allied Airborne Reconnaissance Force (SAARF)
- Korean War
- Air Resupply And Communications Service (ARCS)
- Airborne Ranger Companies
- Combined Command Reconnaissance Activities, Korea (CCRAK)
- 6167th Air Base Group
- 6167th Operations Squadron
- B Flight, 6167th ABG
- 6167th Air Base Group
- Detachment 1, 6160th ABG/22nd Crash Boat Rescue Squadron (CBRS), Korea Detachment
- Joint Advisory Commission, Korea (JACK)
- Special Activities Group (SAG)
- GHQ 1st Raider Company (Provisional)/8227th Army Unit
- Unit 4 21st Troop Carrier Squadron (TCS), 5th AF/Special Air Missions (SAM) Detachment, 21st Troop Carrier Squadron (TCS), 5th AF
- United Nations Partisan Infantry Korea (UNPIK)
- BAKER Section
- Partisan Airborne Infantry Regiment (PAIR)
- US Navy Special Operations Group, Korea
- Vietnam War
- 46th Special Forces Company
- Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP)
- MIKE Force
- Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group(MACV-SOG)
- Phoenix Program
- Project 404/Palace Dog
- Project "Leaping Lena" (Vietnam War)
- Project DELTA
- Project GAMMA
- Project Sigma and Project Omega
- Raven Forward Air Controllers
- Tiger Force
- US Navy Boat Support Units (BSU)
- Other
- 1st Battalion, 245th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)
- 5th Force Reconnaissance Company
- 6th Special Forces Group
- 8th Special Forces Group
- 11th Special Forces Group
- 12th Special Forces Group
- 55th Special Operations Squadron
- 129th Air Commando Group
- 129th Special Operations Aviation Company (SOAC)
- 437th Combat Control Squadron
- 617th Special Operations Aviation Detachment
- 1730th Pararescue Squadron
- Army Aviation Support Element (AASE), US Special Operations Command
- Blue Light
- Detachment A (DET A, 39th SFOD)
- HAL-3 "Sea Wolves"
- HAL-4 "Red Wolves"
- HAL-5 "Blue Hawks"
- Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment One (MCSOCOM-Det 1) (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
- Red Cell
- SEASPRAY
- Special Forces Groups Aviation Detachments
- Special Warfare Aviation Detachments (SWAD)
- 22nd Aviation Detachment (Special Forces)
- 23rd SWAD (Surveillance)
- 281st Assault Helicopter Company, Airmobile Light (AML)
- Special Boat Unit 11 (SBU 11)
- Special Boat Unit 13 (SBU 13)
- Special Boat Unit 24 (SBU 24)
- Special Boat Unit 26 (SBU 26)
- Task Force 5 (forerunner of Task Force 11)
- Task Force 11 (Operation Enduring Freedom)
- Task Force 20 and Task Force 121 (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
- Task Force 98
- Task Force 157 (Covert USN Intelligence unit)
- Task Force Bayonet (Operation Just Cause)
- Task Force Ranger (Operation Gothic Serpent)
- Underwater Demolitions Teams (UDT)
- US Army Special Operations Division
- USAF Special Operations Combat Control Team (SOCCT)
- US Coast Guard Drug Interdiction Assist Team (DIAT)
- Yellow Fruit
THEY FAILED TO INCLUDE THE "COVERT OPS", ETC, GROUPS FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, BUT, REST ASSURED, THEY EXISTED.
AMERICA HAS ALWAYS HAD "SPECIAL FORCES".
NO MORE GREEN LIGHT UNITS!!!
WE NEED TO KNOW HOW TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE DONE TO HUMAN MINDS ONCE THE TROOPS COME HOME.
WE NEED TO FORCE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT THE TROOPS, THE VETERANS COMING HOME FROM THEIR "ASSIGNMENTS", AND HOW WE CAN RESCIND THEIR ORDERS TO KILL, KILL, KILL...
THE MILITARY MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HELPING THOSE WHO SURVIVE THEIR TRAINING AND SURVIVE THEIR DEPLOYMENT.
WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO BRING ALL OUR TROOPS HOME AND MAKE SURE THEY CAN HANDLE COMING BACK TO US.
NO MORE SUICIDE MISSIONS, NO MORE THINKING THAT THEIR LIVES ARE NOT WORTH ANYTHING. NO MORE FORT HOOD SHOOTINGS, NO MORE COMING HOME AND KILLING SPOUSES, STRANGERS, OR THEMSELVES! DO YOU REALLY "SUPPORT YOUR TROOPS"?
THEN MAKE SURE THEY CAN HOME TO A TRUE AND LASTING PEACE...OF MIND.
BOTH WERE WIKILEAKED.
Thanks for posting this information. A veteran in a Youtube comment suggested people look up "Operation Greenlight" as it was run at Fort Bragg. I hadn't heard of it. In checking, I found your blog, and so I responded to the veteran with a link to it, and this: "Eisenhower authorized the program of tactical nukes to be deployed with two man teams, one carrying an 80 pound warhead, and the other carrying the launching device to be assembled when they reached proximity to their target. Some of Eisenhower's program called for suicide bombers using nukes. In 1964, under LBJ, a number of such teams were placed in the context of NATO with potential European targets that couldn't be effectively reached by an airstrike." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRtfvQfZ-qU
ReplyDeleteThe veteran, gordy threehorses wrote 3 months ago, "the military had use of tac nukes going back to the 1970's, don't believe me look up operation green light under us special forces control at ft. bragg. what we had back then was an artillery shaped nuke device that a team could infiltrate a target with, like a dam, we were trained to get it on target and to detonate it, there are three phases to testing on this, a written test, and showing inspectors every part of the bomb also and last, was the field game where we took the bomb and planted it on a target. we could score no less than 100% on each part of the testing less our group commander would be relieved if any of us scored less on the testing."
The Atomic Veterans were subjected to fallout from nuclear blasts in Eisenhower's absurd aspiration that the battlefield operation could continue subsequent to a nuclear detonation.
Many thanks, POW. I always trust what vets say 1000000 times more than any other source. Those who have been there, done that carry more knowledge than those who merely 'research' such things & write about it.
DeleteForever and humbly indebted to all who have stepped up and served this nation. No words can say how grateful this old heart is.
All the best, all the time.
//WW
'Green Light', U.S. commandos once assigned to suicide missions
DeleteJuly 27, 1994|By Knight-Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON -- For many years, American commandos were assigned to volunteer teams with the suicidal mission of detonating small nuclear weapons at very close range, according to authoritative military sources.
The so-called "Green Light" Army demolition squads were supposed to deliver, arm and then "watch the device until it went off" to assure that enemy forces did not interfere with the explosion, said a former Special Forces member trained in the mission.
"If that meant staying inside the hydroelectric plant, standing 20 feet away from the warhead, that's where you stayed," he said. "It was suicide and we all knew it."
Retired Army Maj. Gen. David Einsel, deputy assistant secretary of defense for atomic energy from 1980 to 1985, confirmed the "Green Light" teams' assignment. Man-portable nuclear warheads "were not the weapon of choice, and it had to be a very worthwhile mission or you weren't going to set it off in the first place," General Einsel added.
George Grimes, spokesman for the U.S. Special Operations Command, said he could not discuss the capabilities of forces assigned to the command. The Special Forces member trained in nuclear detonation asked not to be identified because, he said, he had signed confidentiality agreements while in the Army program.
A classified Army manual on nuclear demolition supports his account and General Einsel's, and civilian experts in nuclear weapons say it is consistent with their understanding of nuclear war tactics.
No devices ever were actually fired by the Army's tactical nuclear demolition teams. The last of 300 so-called "backpack nukes" built for such missions were withdrawn from NATO arsenals in 1988 and destroyed."
I'D BET THE FARM THEY WERE NOT DESTROYED. TOO MUCH $$$ WENT INTO THEM AND THEY'RE JUST TOO DAMNED 'HANDY' TO HAVE AROUND.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-07-27/news/1994208148_1_nuclear-weapons-warhead-nuclear-devices
THAT TOOK PURE, RAW GUTS!
DeleteFor 25 Years, U.S. Special Forces Carried Miniature Nukes on Their Backs
The B-54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition was a nuclear bomb the size of a backpack
Adam Rawnsley and David Brown chronicle in a sprawling feature the stories of the special forces troops. “Soldiers from elite Army engineer and Special Forces units, as well as Navy SEALs and select Marines, trained to use the bombs, known as “backpack nukes,” on battlefronts from Eastern Europe to Korea to Iran,” they write. The troops were trained to parachute or SCUBA dive behind enemy lines with their little nukes, to using them to take out strategic installations or render vast tracts of land uninhabitable. According to Rawnsley and Brown, “These “small” weapons, many of them more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, would have obliterated any battlefield and irradiated much of the surrounding area.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/25-years-us-special-forces-carried-miniature-nukes-their-backs-180949700/
For other readers, " Operation Greenlight" does NOT refer to the project to end child sexual abuse and child trafficking, nor does it refer to the HBO series,"Project Greenlight".
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