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THE ELITE ELITE
I think all SEALs highly respect our brothers in the elite anti-terror
unit you’ve read so much about at home. They are an elite group within
an elite group.
We didn’t interact with them in Iraq much. The only other time I
had much to do with them came a few weeks later, after we got into
Ramadi proper. They had heard we were out there slaying a huge
number of savages, and so they sent one of their snipers over to see
what we were doing. I guess they wanted to find out what we were doing
that worked.
Looking back, I regret not having tried to join. At the time, they
weren’t using snipers as heavily as the other teams were. The assaulters
were doing the majority of the work, and I didn’t want to be an assaulter.
I was loving what I was doing. I wanted to be a sniper. I was
getting to use my rifle, and killing enemies. Why give it up, move to
the East Coast, and become a new guy all over again And that’s not
even considering the BUD/S-like school you have to get through to
prove you belong.
I would have had to spend a number of years as an assaulter before
working my way up to be a sniper again. Why do that when I was
already sniping, and loving it
But now that I’ve heard about their ops and what they accomplished,
I think I should have gone for it.
The guys have a reputation for being arrogant and more than a
little full of themselves. That’s plain wrong. I had the opportunity to
meet a few after the war when they came out to a training facility I