is this the most retarded special operation of all time with the biggest retards of all time?1. insert to some place, hike 12 miles to observation point 2. lol, jk we landed only a mile from it but we lied to make us sound like badasses 3. decide to not use vehicles but decide to take the kitchen sink4. cant even walk a mile with it so they shuttle 200 lbs ruck sacks 300 feet at a time 5. use incorrect radio frequencies 6. lol jk, SAS HQ is just as retarded as SAS guys and writes their communications down but doesnt do anything with them 7. discovered within an hour 8. decide to run away and leave 5000 lbs of spam, toilet paper, bullets 9. think they are being chased by a tank 10. lol jk its just a bulldozer by some dude doing road work 11. decide to run away again 12. run to exfiltration point 13. SAS helicopter pilot has diarrhea and decides lol not my problem and literally just doesn't go and doesn't tell anyone else he didn't pick them up 14. lead guy then says they are chased by guys with Dshks on jeeps 15. other guys says he's lying 16. wait for helicopter, it doesn't come because pilot is pooping 17. they radio they are running away to Saudi Arabia 18. no one cares 19. somehow they lose track of each other even though its a fucking wide open desert and they have only hiked about 4 miles 20. 2 guys die of hypothermia even though it's only 25F out lolwtf
21. one guy dying of hypothermia thinks his black glove is frostbite and starts screaming his head off alerting iraqi troops 22. the other guys just leave him to die for being a spaz 23. come up on a hut 24. kill some civilian to car jack him 25. this alerts more iraqis 26. some say they killed a bunch of them but for some reason they didn't return fire and just waited till the SAS guys ran out of bullets (lol yea right) 27. other separated group does the same, kills some taxi driver, steals it, gets captured 28. bunch of other dumb shit where they are all just calling each other liars
>>65341637Maybe. Fwiw, the key reason bravo 2-0 was a fuckup was because it was thrown together with leftovers at the last minute, hence why they had guys from multiple nationalities and were missing a lot of key equipment. Every other SAS patrol in the gulf war had night sights, satcoms and cold gear.
use meme arrows>like thisalso the most retarded special operation is happening right now
>>65341637The Mayaguez Incident was definitely one of the special forces raids of all time>a couple weeks after the fall of Saigon, some of Pol Pot's goons in Cambodia observe a US flagged cargo ship sailing past and presumably observe some of the crew wearing glasses or using modern medicine or something so they seize the ship>back in the US, freshly sworn-in President Ford has no intention of dealing with the absolute shitfit the public will throw if he sends in US troops back to Southeast Asia to deal with this, so he orders the last remaining military unit in the AOR to solve the problem on their own>this unit is a US Air Force base in Thailand currently in the process of shutting down and being kicked out of the country...>the good news is that there's A-7s still at the base for CAS and a squadron of Pararescuemen and their MH-53s>the bad news is that they need lots of bodies if they're going to air assault a giant cargo ship COD 4 style. The only other unit on base with combat training is the Security Police squadron, but they need their trained ground combat troops on the perimeter in case any communists try to attack during the drawdown>this leaves the other half of the SP squadron; the Law Enforcement flight. AKA: the guys who write speeding tickets and deal with shoplifting at the BX.>The plan gets drawn up: The PJs will man the helicopter guns and coordinate the fighters to buzz the ship while the SPs- who are only armed with .38 revolvers and nightsticks with a couple spare M16s spread out among the assault force- conduct a fast rope air assault insertion, fight their way to the bridge and engine room, free the hostages, neutralize the pirates, and sail the ship back into international waters>and they're only got like a half an hour to plan all this shit out before they get on the birds. (Un)fortunately, the plan gets called off at the last second when one of the assault team's helicopters crashes during takeoff, killing 25 airmen instantly
>>65341831>word of the clusterfuck finally reaches back to DC, and Ford begrudgingly authorizes the deployment of a combat infantry unit from Okinawa>of course because the post-Vietnam military is fucking broke, the only combat ready unit on the entire island is a Marine Reserve battalion activated for a training exercise there>in the time it takes the Marines to unfuck themselves and get ready, the Khmer Rouge offloads the hostages onto a nearby island>new plan: half of the troops will air assault the island (again, not trained for that) in the surviving Air Force MH-53s while the other half hitches a ride on a Navy destroyer and boards the cargo ship>fuck it, we ball.>The Navy rams their ship into the side of the Mayaguez and the Marines drop gangplank and bumrush in to find the ship completely empty>meanwhile the air assault force is approaching the island and about to land when they get fired on by a complex defensive network of trenches and HMG positions>it turns out that what was believed to be bumbling pirates were actually elite French-trained Cambodian naval infantry that had defected to the commies. Oops.>the first wave of helicopters gets shredded by AAA fire and crashes on the beach or into the ocean, one of the PJs has to call in CAS through a one way survival radio while swimming off shore>more and more helicopters keep getting shot down with everyone still pinned down on the beach until the decision is made to abandon the mission>in the chaos, all the dead bodies and three still-alive Marines get left behind to be killed in a last stand, their bodies are never recovered>the Cambodians don't realize the US military is a literal paper tiger and think they're about to get Arc Light'ed so they hurriedly release the hostages as a show of good faith>41 American deaths with absolutely nothing to show for it
>>65341831>>65341836fuckin tragic, Jesus.
>>65341836>>the Cambodians don't realize the US military is a literal paper tiger and think they're about to get Arc Light'ed so they hurriedly release the hostages as a show of good faithThat's not even the best part. The KR were making preparations to release the crew even before the attack was launched.
>>65341836Not even a last stand exclusively, two of the guys managed to run away and hide out elsewhere on the island for a few days. And there was a SEAL platoon that arrived on Coral Sea that night and requested to go in and pull the trapped marines out but this was denied.
