US Mercs an elite fighting force

2006-11-05T12:12:00.000-08:00

Hey asshole, this is a fucking videogame. Figures. Some people can't tell what's real and what's not. And that's where the main subject of this blog is going to come in...

Joe Cafasso, the asshole that is, the Colonel who wasn't.

Don't come here if you can't take the language or the subject matter.

This.is.unadulterated.vendetta.

For you, Joe. Up close and personal.

slicing and dicing the punks of the world

2006-11-05T12:04:00.000-08:00

An interesting video to start this blog off with:

Interesting because it uses two quite questionable sources for prime interviews, both connected, in more ways than one, to the infamous Joseph Cafasso, the man that claims to be the hero of DESERT ONE, who saved the burning planes aircrew while a member of the elite Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, commonly referred to as Delta Force. That's a surprise to the guys that actually were there. They must have missed the phony Special Forces Colonel, and his three silver stars for heroism.

An easy explanation- it never happened. Joe Cafasso was working as a janitor during the Operation Eagle Claw rescue attempt. But it makes good stories at the local VFW bar in Carteret New Jersey.

Equally of interest is interviewee Number 1- Kathryn Cramer, a science fiction writer who has re-invented herself as an expert on military affairs. Probably after her torrid sexual affair (news to her husband) with Colonel Gerry Blackwood. Unfortunately for Cramer, it turns out that her CIA source, a presidential advisor on the White House staff, also a highly decorated Colonel in Special Forces, carrying a top level Secret Service Yankee White designation (news to the Secret Service- who never heard of him), was in reality, Joe Cafasso. Even more hysterical is the fact that Cramer was using Colonel Cafasso (she thought he was Colonel Blackwood), as her source for her research for none other than another stupid loser, Robert Pelton. Yankee White is the nation's most rigorous security background check, for the presidential staff. Maybe Cramer and Pelton should have spent fifty cents for a phone call to the Secret Service and asked someone if there ever was a Colonel Blackwood at the White House (hey Pelty, you could have just used Google you moron. And one question for you Kathy, did you not check his wallet while he was using the bathroom in your Washington hotel room?).

And, behind door number 2, is another expert source, also interviewed for the film-Robert Pelton.

Pelton writes a book about contract military soldiers, mercenaries, and infamous "characters," based on all his lengthy experience in the Afghan and Iraq war zones. Problem is that Pelton's extensive experience, like Cramer's, is mostly in science fiction. But Pelton's con is a little more polished. At least Pelton actually flies into the war zone, and stays just long enough to snap some photos, take some hair-raising video, and head back to a safe hotel in another country to write his vivid front line battle stories. Pelton had a good thing going, until Cramer convinced him to use Colonel Blackwood as a primary source for his new book. Un-named of course, after all, you have to keep those secret CIA, Special Forces, Delta Force, Ranger, Navy SEAL, spook sources highly confidential. Heck, if you didn't do that, someone might just call you and tell you that your source, Colonel Blackwood, was in reality Colonel Cafasso, who was in reality, a private in the US Army, who was thrown out for unsuitable service after a mere 44 days. On the other hand, it's more time that either Cramer or Pelton had in the army, or the navy, or the coast guard, or even as cooks for anyone in a real uniform.

But that didn't stop these two brilliant filmmakers from falling all over these irrefutable experts and interviewing them for their movie, which even foists upon us a comment from Ted Kennedy. Wonder what poor Senator Kennedy would say if he knew that it bullshit, built on bullshit, laced with bullshit, on a plate of bullshit, served to us all cold?

So if this is the quality of the sources Shadow Company uses for a film they tell us to all watch, then exactly what is the quality of the film? Easy answer- bullshit, just like Cramer’s blog and Pelton’s books.

Hey, what can we say, birds of a feather flock together? Hey Pelty, come ride in our chopper sometime, we can show how to freefall, but it only works once. Get a life boys and girls, and go back to writing about what you know about- science fiction.

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US Mercs an elite fighting force

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