US Navy Pilot's letter to terrorists

[88Mariner]

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British World War One veteran Henry Allingham, 112, (L) reacts after placing a wreath, during an Armistice Day commemmoration ceremony in Whitehall in London on November 11, 2008. Europe on Tuesday marked the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, with the handful of surviving veterans at the vanguard of commemmorations for the fallen of the 'War to End All Wars'. By Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty.

this, is a real hero.

[shosh]

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this, is a real hero.

imo, everyone serving our country is a real hero

[sammwalk]

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garbage

how could you post such jingoist claptrap. snyde, arrogant, and impotent text written for an American audience to glorify the right wing and to cast dissenters of the war, militarism, or the general left as weak and unappreciative.


p.s.: we didn't get bin Laden yet.

[DIDI]

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^^^ +1

[sammwalk]

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Here's a better story:

BENAVIDEZ, ROY P.
Rank and organization:Master Sergeant. Organization: Detachment B-56, 5th Special Forces Group, Republic of Vietnam
Place and date: West of Loc Ninh on 2 May 1968
Entered service at: Houston, Texas June 1955
Born:5 August 1935, DeWitt County, Cuero, Texas.

Citation:
“ Master Sergeant, then Staff Sergeant, United States Army. Who distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely glorious actions on 2 May 1968 while assigned to Detachment B-56, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne). 1st Special Forces, Republic of Vietnam. On the morning of 2 May 1968, a 12-man Special Forces Reconnaissance Team was inserted by helicopters in a dense jungle area west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam to gather intelligence information about confirmed large-scale enemy activity. This area was controlled and routinely patrolled by the North Vietnamese Army.

After a short period of time on the ground, the team met heavy enemy resistance and requested emergency extraction. 3 helicopters attempted extraction, but were unable to land due to intense enemy small arms and anti-aircraft fire. Sergeant Benavidez was at the Forward Operating Base in Loc Ninh monitoring the operation by radio when these helicopters returned to off-load wounded crew members and to assess aircraft damage.

Sergeant Benavidez voluntarily boarded a returning aircraft to assist in another extraction attempt. Realizing that all the team members were either dead or wounded and unable to move to the pickup zone, he directed the aircraft to a nearby clearing where he jumped from the hovering helicopter, and ran approximately 75 meters under withering small arms fire to the crippled team. Prior to reaching the team's position he was wounded in his right leg, face and head. Despite these painful injuries he took charge, repositioning the team members and directing their fire to facilitate the landing of an extraction aircraft, and the loading of wounded and dead team members. He then threw smoke canisters to direct the aircraft to the team's position. Despite his severe wounds and under intense enemy fire, he carried and dragged half of the wounded team members to the awaiting aircraft. He then provided protective fire by running alongside the aircraft as it moved to pick up the remaining team members.

As the enemy's fire intensified, he hurried to recover the body and classified documents on the dead team leader. When he reached the leader's body, Sergeant Benavidez was severely wounded by small arms fire in the abdomen and grenade fragments in his back. At nearly the same moment, the aircraft pilot was mortally wounded, and his helicopter crashed. Although in extremely critical condition due to his multiple wounds, Sergeant Benavidez secured the classified documents and made his way back to the wreckage, where he aided the wounded out of the overturned aircraft, and gathered the stunned survivors into a defensive perimeter. Under increasing enemy automatic weapons and grenade fire, he moved around the perimeter distributing water and ammunition to his weary men, reinstilling in them a will to live and fight.

Facing a buildup of enemy opposition with a beleaguered team, Sergeant Benavidez mustered his strength, began calling in tactical air strikes and directed the fire from supporting gun ships to suppress the enemy's fire and so permit another extraction attempt. He was wounded again in his thigh by small arms fire while administering first aid to a wounded team member just before another extraction helicopter was able to land. His indomitable spirit kept him going as he began to ferry his comrades to the craft. On his second trip with the wounded, he was clubbed with additional wounds to his head and arms before killing his adversary. He then continued under devastating fire to carry the wounded to the helicopter. Upon reaching the aircraft, he spotted and killed 2 enemy soldiers who were rushing the craft from an angle that prevented the aircraft door gunner from firing upon them. With little strength remaining, he made one last trip to the perimeter to ensure that all classified material had been collected or destroyed, and to bring in the remaining wounded. Only then, in extremely serious condition from numerous wounds and loss of blood, did he allow himself to be pulled into the extraction aircraft.

Sergeant Benavidez' gallant choice to voluntarily join his comrades who were in critical straits, to expose himself constantly to withering enemy fire, and his refusal to be stopped despite numerous severe wounds, saved the lives of at least 8 men. His fearless personal leadership, tenacious devotion to duty, and extremely valorous actions in the face of overwhelming odds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service, and reflect the utmost credit on him and the United States Army.

[dig72]

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What a wanker. Likes Bush and rekons he was a good choice.

This letter was obviously produced for laugh.

He sure got me.

[BabyMatty4Block]

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He likes the challenge? I think he likes his ego, just like every navy pilot does cause they can land on carriers. But ya, he's not hiding behind women and children - he's hiding behind sophisticated weaponry costing millions of dollars at the expense of the taxpayer. If he's so adamant about strangling a terrorist in a room, perhaps he should have joined the CIA or opted to work with ground units in the Army or the Marines.

/rant off.

how could you post such jingoist claptrap. snyde, arrogant, and impotent text written for an American audience to glorify the right wing and to cast dissenters of the war, militarism, or the general left as weak and unappreciative.


p.s.: we didn't get bin Laden yet

Amen, brothers. He also forgot to mention how he will probably accidentaly kill more women and children than terrorists, further inciting the ill will that keeps the breeding ground for terrorism fertile in the first place.

[88Mariner]

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^ or, alternatively, you could add that his position to deploy bombs from safe distances, as opposed to traditional ground warfare, prevents us, you and me, from facing what would ultimately be a draft...governmental slavery. I'm glad he can do what he does so that I may remain free from government coercion. War is hell, and people must pick sides.

That said, he does sound like a jackass who watches Fox & Friends a little too much.

[Localizer]

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wow the fuckin haters

please post what you have done for your country that is so admirable or GTFO

Lol, hating huh? A significant portion of my friends work in the military (nearly all pilots) or for a clandestine agency. I can tell you first hand the arrogance of military pilots, specifically air force and navy pilots.

I respect soldiers who don't say stupid shit like this navy pilot did. He's probably bored seeing as how the USS St. Vincent hasn't had a navy jet throw down a bomb throughout this war (PBS Carrier). I also have more respect for ground troops, especially snipers and recons.

But leave it to shosh to jump the gun and misinterpret my post.

[nick007]

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Here's a better story:

BENAVIDEZ, ROY P.
Rank and organization:Master Sergeant. Organization: Detachment B-56, 5th Special Forces Group, Republic of Vietnam
Place and date: West of Loc Ninh on 2 May 1968
Entered service at: Houston, Texas June 1955
Born:5 August 1935, DeWitt County, Cuero, Texas.

Citation:
“ Master Sergeant, then Staff Sergeant, United States Army. Who distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely glorious actions on 2 May 1968 while assigned to Detachment B-56, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne). 1st Special Forces, Republic of Vietnam. On the morning of 2 May 1968, a 12-man Special Forces Reconnaissance Team was inserted by helicopters in a dense jungle area west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam to gather intelligence information about confirmed large-scale enemy activity. This area was controlled and routinely patrolled by the North Vietnamese Army.

After a short period of time on the ground, the team met heavy enemy resistance and requested emergency extraction. 3 helicopters attempted extraction, but were unable to land due to intense enemy small arms and anti-aircraft fire. Sergeant Benavidez was at the Forward Operating Base in Loc Ninh monitoring the operation by radio when these helicopters returned to off-load wounded crew members and to assess aircraft damage.

Sergeant Benavidez voluntarily boarded a returning aircraft to assist in another extraction attempt. Realizing that all the team members were either dead or wounded and unable to move to the pickup zone, he directed the aircraft to a nearby clearing where he jumped from the hovering helicopter, and ran approximately 75 meters under withering small arms fire to the crippled team. Prior to reaching the team's position he was wounded in his right leg, face and head. Despite these painful injuries he took charge, repositioning the team members and directing their fire to facilitate the landing of an extraction aircraft, and the loading of wounded and dead team members. He then threw smoke canisters to direct the aircraft to the team's position. Despite his severe wounds and under intense enemy fire, he carried and dragged half of the wounded team members to the awaiting aircraft. He then provided protective fire by running alongside the aircraft as it moved to pick up the remaining team members.

As the enemy's fire intensified, he hurried to recover the body and classified documents on the dead team leader. When he reached the leader's body, Sergeant Benavidez was severely wounded by small arms fire in the abdomen and grenade fragments in his back. At nearly the same moment, the aircraft pilot was mortally wounded, and his helicopter crashed. Although in extremely critical condition due to his multiple wounds, Sergeant Benavidez secured the classified documents and made his way back to the wreckage, where he aided the wounded out of the overturned aircraft, and gathered the stunned survivors into a defensive perimeter. Under increasing enemy automatic weapons and grenade fire, he moved around the perimeter distributing water and ammunition to his weary men, reinstilling in them a will to live and fight.

Facing a buildup of enemy opposition with a beleaguered team, Sergeant Benavidez mustered his strength, began calling in tactical air strikes and directed the fire from supporting gun ships to suppress the enemy's fire and so permit another extraction attempt. He was wounded again in his thigh by small arms fire while administering first aid to a wounded team member just before another extraction helicopter was able to land. His indomitable spirit kept him going as he began to ferry his comrades to the craft. On his second trip with the wounded, he was clubbed with additional wounds to his head and arms before killing his adversary. He then continued under devastating fire to carry the wounded to the helicopter. Upon reaching the aircraft, he spotted and killed 2 enemy soldiers who were rushing the craft from an angle that prevented the aircraft door gunner from firing upon them. With little strength remaining, he made one last trip to the perimeter to ensure that all classified material had been collected or destroyed, and to bring in the remaining wounded. Only then, in extremely serious condition from numerous wounds and loss of blood, did he allow himself to be pulled into the extraction aircraft.

Sergeant Benavidez' gallant choice to voluntarily join his comrades who were in critical straits, to expose himself constantly to withering enemy fire, and his refusal to be stopped despite numerous severe wounds, saved the lives of at least 8 men. His fearless personal leadership, tenacious devotion to duty, and extremely valorous actions in the face of overwhelming odds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service, and reflect the utmost credit on him and the United States Army.

for the foot soldier!

[Dhar_2]

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agreed, but would it not have been worse had he voted for Bush for his IQ? lol

but liking him!

thats such a far stretch!!!

[shosh]

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Lol, hating huh? A significant portion of my friends work in the military (nearly all pilots) or for a clandestine agency. I can tell you first hand the arrogance of military pilots, specifically air force and navy pilots.

I respect soldiers who don't say stupid shit like this navy pilot did. He's probably bored seeing as how the USS St. Vincent hasn't had a navy jet throw down a bomb throughout this war (PBS Carrier). I also have more respect for ground troops, especially snipers and recons.

But leave it to shosh to jump the gun and misinterpret my post.

imo he has just as much merit as a sniper or a ground soldier.

[88Mariner]

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ok, so if this guy wrote a letter, do you think he included a homing device?

would prolly take care of the whole situation.

[PROG]

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it be funny if this pilot got a replay back starting with the

Dear, US Terrorist ...doh! sorry! had to go there...we aint better.

[jay813]

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what a stupid letter


(ex navy, is that enough qualification for you)