/k/ doesn't have special operator threads anymore.

Reminder that all of these guys lie and fluff up their records.
>US Army MSG Tim Kennedy, a Green Beret and major public figure within the post-9/11 veteran community, admitted this week to lying about receiving a valor award for combat service and to exaggerating parts of his service.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/10/tim-kennedy-green-beret-and-army-hype-man-under-investigation-lying-about-combat-valor.html

>>63968869 (OP)
i operate a specialized powered industrial truck, can i be considered a special operator?

>>63968869 (OP)
>warfighter was 15 years ago
Time flies...

>>63968869 (OP)
OP is a fluffer

I'm forklift certified, I'll take it from here

>>63968880
13*

>>63968869 (OP)
Sometimes I think about lying through my teeth and making some operator vetbro podcast or coffee brand just to see how much money I could make before people realized I'm a pog and full of shit, but I've just got too much shame and empathy to pull off a con like that.

>>63968880
>>63969078
I wish it was given more of a chance. It was the perfect middle ground between CoD's arcade-y gameplay and Battlefield's team play.

>>63968869 (OP)
Special forces aren't really that important anymore, now that GWOT is over.

>Sure, if Venezuela invades Guyana, you could drop a platoon of green berets into the jungle, and have them train the locals to fight for you.

Or you could just bomb the venezuelans.

>You could use a team of delta force operators to attack a HVT in a civilian area.

Or you could use an R9X missile, or maybe even an FPV drone with a tiny warhead.

>The SEALs could still do VBSS operations, if pirates capture a civilian ship.

PMCs as security on the boats are cheaper for the shipping companies than potential delays due to pirates.

>>63969219
>Special forces aren't really that important anymore, now that GWOT is over.
They're important for diplomatic reasons.
The no1 thing they do all day is training with foreign forces.
It's VERY common for Nation-A to send their special forces to Nation-B to provide training and build diplomatic tires, bonus points if they can shill Nation-B's army into buying some weaponry made in Nation-A.

>>63969119
I wish it was given more development. It could have been perfect but it was far from it.

>>63969303
That proves his point, though. The primary combat missions they used to have in droves are severely diminished and they serve different purposes.

>>63969337
Training foreign forces was always original purpose of special forces. That was the whole point of creating such forces in the early cold war.
Yeah, sure, they sometimes went out on live missions to OPERATE OPERATIONALLY. But such situations were exceptions, not rule.

>>63969346
It's still combat-adjacent if they're supporting a combat mission while they're doing that. The focus shifts from training some locals to training foreign partners/allies. Hence, non-combat.

He may be a liar but he is the most successful SNCO on Earth because the rest are even bigger screw ups.

>three US SpecOps
>but no multiple SpecOps for other nations

>>63970661
Why nothing for China? They don't even have a Green Beret equivalent?

>>63970682
Because they don't have any Tier 1 operators. They have instead multiple Tier 2 under PLASOF which is rather vague in how good they are since it's lots of different brigades. The closest is probably the Sea Dragon Commandos which some argue are the equiv of SEALS but obviously difficult to actually work out if that is true or not.

AI will spit out shit saying they have comparable units to the SAS or SEALS and then list off shit like the Snow Leopards which are a counter-terrorist unit attached to the police and internal security forces, not a special ops force that also has counter-terrorist duties.

tl;dr they don't have a known or renowned one because they only set up a SpecOps system in the very late 80's and China is purposefully quiet about a lot of shit (for example, nobody knows what the head of their intelligence agency is called. They have no MI6 or CIA or whatever, in those circles they are known simply as 'Beijing').

>>63970646
>A POS
Correct

>>63968869 (OP)
>grom n spetnaz eyeballing each other
lol

You may not like it, but this is what peak badass US super soldier killing machine looks like

>>63968869 (OP)
>Reminder that all of these guys lie and fluff up their records.

Is this mostly an American phenomenon? You rarely hear of other nationalities going for the media route, publishing books or even doing interviews

>>63972762
Her feminine penis probably gets tucked more than (you)'rs tho...

>>63972801
Hmm, Thomas Rathsack from the Danish army special forces did become a bit of a media whore and published books. His portrait was also removed form the army special forces messhall. So I guess it more frowned upon.

>>63969078
>15 years ago was 13 years ago

>>63968869 (OP)
Honest question. What's the point of beanies or balaclavas in this attire? They both look like garbage compared to a proper helmet and obviously don't protect. A balaclava specifically might even impede airflow during a key moment.

>>63972866
+1 to camo, what's the point of tacticool gear blending in, if your face sticks out like a sore thumb

*walks up to you*
*lies*
*360s away*

>>63968869 (OP)

>>63969119
Yeah perhaps CoD wouldn't degrade into a slopfest if they kept it going

>>63968869 (OP)
jtf2 was goated for being the fastest

>>63974113
what he lie about?

>>63970682
>>63970722
Aren't the PAP the ones with actual combat experience? From mostly fighting TIP remnants in Xinjiang.

>>63974221

>>63969303
>links 20 videos of russian and ukranian special forces ambushing behind enemy lines or droning behind enemy lines

>>63974661
I dont know, but I always lol whenever he does his "Sheriff of Baghdad" schtick, acting like a rough and tough wild west character.
Sheriffs were just the callsign given to TOC fobbits in charge of battlespace deconfliction. Literally just C2 phone jockeys.

>>63975347
>I always lol whenever he does his "Sheriff of Baghdad" schtick

what does he say?

>>63970722
>They have no MI6 or CIA or whatever, in those circles they are known simply as 'Beijing'
in those circles their foreign intelligence is usually grouped under MSS (ministry of state security

>>63974221

>>63972801
Bongs literally started it, the bravo two-zero media circus was the prototype for the modern podcast+bookdeal SOF guy.

>>63972866
anonymity. prior to the last maybe 15 years, SOF units were very secretive because there's zero benefit to foreign nations or terror groups being able to identify the personnel that would be deployed against them. overall its gone by the wayside since GWOT and Facebook and podcasting, but some countries still take it seriously. secondly they could be flash hoods, but they tend to have large bibs and neck coverage so they're distinct from regular ski masks and gaiters.

>>63968869 (OP)
I was an 18x. Made it through selection then got in a motorcycle accident two weeks before I had my date for Q. I can answer most questions people have if you'd like.

The Army in its infinite mercy allowed me to finish my contract as a support guy with 5th group, so I did get to do a fair amount of fun training and schools.

If anyone here is/was an 18 series, there was some pretty scandalous stuff that happened around my accident with SNCO's so I'm curious if you'd know about me lol.

>>63969303
JCETs still happen constantly. Not only do ODAs and ODBs regularly become the face of the US Army abroad, it serves as a diplomatic means of controlling foreign militaries. Training guerilla fighters isn't their only purpose as GWOT reformatted SF to include many of the tasks typically assigned to Battalion or SMU. Same reason SEALs don't strictly fight on boats anymore. I always thought it was weird when armchair observers try to pigeon hole the community you're not even a part of. I did get to go to an Embassy party once and got drunk with an ambassador's daughter one time, though.

>>63968869 (OP)
Special Ops drama is like celebrity gossip for men.

>>63976073
Western SF have to care about the whole human rights and hearts and mind shit, so they're ordered to show their faces in battle unless it's absolutely necessary to cover them since covering your face makes you feel less accountable so you're more likely to be excessively brutal and commit random war crimes (or so psychology says). This was part of the "mindset" they trained into the ukrainian SF that western media praised for having a "westernized mindset" (variations of the phrase "they think like us") where they did away with the classic russian balaclava look.