True. Notice that nowhere in your quotation marks are the words "Black Ops" or "Special Operations" used. However, in your first few posts, you clearly state:
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That's conjecture, is it not?
Of course. You are aware of what the words allude and intimated mean, correct?
Now, I will ask you furthermore, are you aware of what lying by omission is?
I've had tons of friends that were medically discharged from the military, and none of them were transferred to "Medical Hold Units". They simply stayed with their own unit until the documents cleared. In Mr. Strider's case, he claims Regiment simply got rid of him... which happens frequently.
Please, by all means, back up this allegation. Please provide some sort of documentation or proof of your bonafides in being a subject matter expert on this, especially since you question my statements below.
You "think his statements about it being due to an injury are bogus". Yet you have no proof otherwise, nor is it Mr. Strider's responsibility to provide any documentation to you.
That's conjecture, is it not?
On the contrary. I cannot prove a negative, and barring other documentation it is not possible for anyone to prove he
wasn't medically removed, it can only be proven that he
was. That is basic logic. However, since he's making the claims, he needs to back them up. He refuses. His credibility has been called into question, therefore the credibility of this claim is suspect.
I have NEVER ONCE CLAIMED MR. STRIDER HAD COMBAT SERVICE IN A CIVILIAN CAPACITY. Why place words in my mouth?
Thank you for stating that clearly. As a followup question, do you feel it is likely, or even probably that he had combat service in a civilian capacity?
A person that has been through RIP and served, for any length of time in Regiment, has a Special Operations background. Is that clear enough?
Do you feel 65 days in the Batts is brag worthy? When you hear someone say they have a Special Operations background, do you think "oh, that guy was kicked out of the Batts!" or do you draw another conclusion? Would you consider someone saying they have a Special Operations background of 65 days in the Ranger Regiment to be a credible source on anything Special Operations related? How many other people with Special Operations backgrounds used for bonafides have such a remarkable amount of training compressed into those 65 days?
Sir, you already offered your Special Operations credentials, and they included THINKING about going to SFAS, CONSIDERING Regiment/Group support, and KNOWING a Best Ranger winner. THAT is "gross exaggeration", not actual Regimental service time... regardless of duration.
Wrong, utterly wrong. I've said I understand how they work, however I've repeatedly gone out of my way to state that I was in no way in Special Operations, nor was I any sort of operator, commando, or otherwise special. I did some cool stuff, but that's the extent.
I was a lowly Combat Engineer, who served honorably. Something you saw fit to snipe at, I will remind you, without even providing any credentials of your own. Furthermore, you did this while showing the remarkable lack of intestinal fortitude and shallowness of character to call out an E1 who was barred from re-enlistment, who went AWOL, who lied about another vet with honorable discharges from the Marines and Navy, and wound up being a convicted felon.
Wouldn't that have been a shame?
If you think I'm gaining any pleasure out of this you are wrong. I will say again, I've opened up my personal and professional reputation to ruin. I've opened myself to unlimited liability if I'm wrong. But I've stepped up and answered the challengers. You, meanwhile, have taken shots at me while hiding behind anonymity. Please do not allude that I'm doing this gleefully
IF the knives can stand on their own merits, he should let the blades AND the people who swear by them (a number of of whom have chimed in on this thread) do the selling. I spent a lot of years in the advertising business and I think i can say with a high degree of certainty that performance specs and testimonials would serve him better. His continued insistence on activitely perpetuating this Billy Badass rep strikes me as a sign of some pretty interesting pathologies.
