Summary
Bishop Garrison, a former Pentagon official who led a 2021 investigation into military extremism, warns that recent New Year’s Day attacks by military personnel highlight the ongoing threat of radicalization and distress in the armed forces.
Despite a report recommending counter-extremism measures, its policies were never implemented, facing backlash from right-wing figures, including Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth.
As Hegseth aims to dismantle counter-extremism programs, Garrison stresses the risks of neglecting the issue, citing cultural and mental health challenges within the military.
I was attached to MARSOC early on when they were forming the groups and recruiting from Raiders and Force Recon. I was usually attached when they needed to plus up for DMRs. Being 0317 gave me a lot of job opportunities in the early GWOT.
Anyways, we would often deploy in joint efforts with the Green Beret ODAs and almost always it was the tertiary POGs that were the most gung ho assholes. They’d always let you know how smart they were and how stupid the government was for letting all the fat purple hairs into the general ranks. This guy was the POGest of POGs as he was a glorified drone operator. I have doubts he ever left the FOB.
SOF/SF tier one units are filled with embezzling wife beaters who deal fent. I’ve rubbed shoulders with plenty of them. Plenty of them who rotate back to civ div end up robbing banks and selling their training services to militias. It’s the perfect setup for domestic terrorism.
Excerpt from another thread on the Tesla Truck bomber
We. Don’t. Know. Your. Acronyms.
WDKYA
I mean. Okay. But you wrote that knowing that very few people reading it would know what MARSOC, DMRs, “being 0317”, GWOT, ODAs, POGs (let alone the POGest of POGs), FOBs, SOF/F mean. And, plot twist, it was all an excerpt?
What are you on about, man?
I used to train shepherds to shoot opium dealers
I couldn’t be more proud of you.
Well at least someone is. Don’t join the military if you can help it.
Military lingo is easily searchable
You’re out of your mind if you think anyone reading this cares enough to find, copy, and paste each term to decipher them. Or that it’s easier than writing out each term in a non-military community.
How do you feel about context clues?
Uh… Non-existent?
And that’s only your first 5!
Sure, So I was attached to a military unit that worked with other military units. I would float between different units.
See how no understanding of these acronyms is necessary for the above statement? This is what we call context clues.
What a goober you turned out to be 🤣
You like peanuts?
Your condescension is not needed. I was simply pointing out that this is not a military community, no one knows what those terms mean. Yes, I know what context is, my example is showing that context does not help.