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08-15-2010, 05:13 AM | #14041 |
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Stepping back a few months to my misunderstanding of the difference between Special Forces (Green Berets) and Special Operations Forces (the whole gamut), I just watched Green Zone and Matt Damon's character said on a number of occasions, that SF or Special Forces had come and stolen his prisoner.
Now as they didn't wear berets or have insignia afaicr, and the fact that they looked a lot like a bunch of Tier 1 operators, was this a script mistake?
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08-15-2010, 08:23 AM | #14042 |
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yeah I don't know how that all played out. It seemed like it was DOD vs the Agency and guys who I would think would be SAD were working for DOD? I guess they were suppose to be Delta? When they first got off the helicopter I don't know if they identified themselves in anyway?
Still you would think the character Matt Damon would know the difference. They didn't fit the typical Green Beret mission. But Who knows what type of missions they were performing in Iraq besides getting behind enemy lines and calling in air strikes.
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08-15-2010, 10:49 AM | #14043 |
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Stepping back a few months to my misunderstanding of the difference between Special Forces (Green Berets) and Special Operations Forces (the whole gamut), I just watched Green Zone and Matt Damon's character said on a number of occasions, that SF or Special Forces had come and stolen his prisoner.
Now as they didn't wear berets or have insignia afaicr, and the fact that they looked a lot like a bunch of Tier 1 operators, was this a script mistake? |
08-15-2010, 03:38 PM | #14044 |
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Does anyone wear a beret into combat?
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08-15-2010, 03:38 PM | #14045 |
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My issue was that I didn't think SF performed those types of snatch and grab missions, but as Loose says, who knows? I should also add, how hirsute are the SF members allowed to be? I'm not sure where they lie in the "allowed to grow facial hair while in the field" scale of things (though I understand, iirc from one of the Osprey books, that the growing of facial hair has been cracked down on for US S(O)F troops now anyway). Last edited by lardman; 08-15-2010 at 03:48 PM.. |
08-15-2010, 04:27 PM | #14046 |
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Yeah ok, I was being sarcastic with the beret comment
My issue was that I didn't think SF performed those types of snatch and grab missions, but as Loose says, who knows? I should also add, how hirsute are the SF members allowed to be? I'm not sure where they lie in the "allowed to grow facial hair while in the field" scale of things (though I understand, iirc from one of the Osprey books, that the growing of facial hair has been cracked down on for US S(O)F troops now anyway).
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08-15-2010, 05:47 PM | #14047 |
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Thanks blackrazor1, so facial hair is (or at least certainly was then) definitely allowed, well that makes the script in Green Zone more believable then, just depends on whether you guys reckon snatch and grab is part of what they would have been doing in Iraq.
BTW, was that NG series any good? |
08-15-2010, 08:39 PM | #14048 |
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Thanks blackrazor1, so facial hair is (or at least certainly was then) definitely allowed, well that makes the script in Green Zone more believable then, just depends on whether you guys reckon snatch and grab is part of what they would have been doing in Iraq.
BTW, was that NG series any good?
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08-15-2010, 11:27 PM | #14049 |
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So, I found out something interesting, Nightingale, from Kansas, my custom helo pilot I made using the 'pilot Scarlett' isnt too far from the truth. Today, I read my mom and sister's churches denomination university alumni magazine. One of the kids I went to Kansas church and youth camp with. He is now a Marine helo pilot on a crew of a certain One.
Is that vague enough?
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08-15-2010, 11:39 PM | #14050 |
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As far as how hirsute SF soldiers are allowed to be, check out Robin Moore's excellent book, "The Hunt for bin Laden." He says that right after 9/11, they were told to grow out their beards, and in many of the pictures they are sporting such non-standard clothes as jeans and fleece pullovers.
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