JTAC Directed Apaches Pound Taliban With 30MM: Warning! Graphic Content

 @Tango9 snicker snicker .... they still blame each other. I love it! It is a topic about every third family gathering and I just say; "Oh man that was really mean; I bet that made basic MUCH harder"! Then I watch them snipe at each other about it. It is fun!

 @Tango9  @StormR Good, but I think it'd be more like "Bradley" or "Steven" than "Brad" or "Steve".

 @MedicSteve2  @StormR LOL steve.  How's "Brad?" 

 @Tango9  @StormR C'mon, man.  Pick another name

@Tango9 LMTO..evil, evil man :) :)

@Recon6 @Tango9 Thanks, Recon, but I'm good - I'll just take it out of my "Burgers & Beer" entertainment fund and probably drop a couple of pounds too :) :)

 @StormR  @Tango9   Wait!!!  You don't need my address, DUH!  I will need yours to send the funds!  Brain dead.    6

 @StormR  @Tango9  Hey Storm, if you require any additional funds, I can send you my physical address and I will send some financial aid to you.

Let me know....6

@Tango9 Absolutely for real :) I have to run to the store in a few minutes anway, so I'll pick up a card and get it off to him tomorrow...and yes, please let me know what 'stuff' to send. I know the appropriate magazines, power bars, socks, non-melting snacks, dry energy drinks yadda, yadda, yadda to send for Iraq & Afhgan (which I still can't spell right), but I've never sent stuff to some in basic. It will be fun!! I've missed sending packages.

 @StormR do not make fun of my spidey undies.

He started off being mad.  Sometimes folks are just mad and want to stay mad.  His 'mad' may not have had anything to do with you, but you were a convenient target.  Spiderman underpants?  Really or you just joshing?

 @Old PH2 I haven't pissed this many people off in months.  It's not on purpose... I just want to enjoy my coffee and some cake.  But every time I turn around this week it's a fight. 

From J1ob's posts I think he's a JTAC/FACP guy so I absolutely want him to contribute here.  Hate blue on blue.  Fuck.

 @Tango9 ROTFLOL I could really fly with that one as far as making up a press release & being humane to the raped animals  but .....

 @meankitteh1 Well, at least they don't have to worry about their Muj owners diddling them anymore.

 @Tango9 Well, in my youth I was a live-off-the-land-girl, but it wasn't by choice LOL   And yeah, if things fell apart, I could pretty easily build a cozy little shelter (if there was willow & cedar around), build & light a fire and feed us, weave clothes, rugs, etc. out of cedar and if I had me a nice knife, carve some the necessities - but I sure would be cranky about it.   I don't even camp now.  Truthfully, up until 7 years ago, I only camped twice a year and the trips were back to back.  In mid-June to put folks on the mountain to cry for their vision and then off to the other side of the mountain for sun dance, BUT I always made my circle haul my little camping trailer up and down that mountain LOL.  I think they were happy when I retired from doing that kind of thing.  Now, I'm just little ole almost-Elder...a delicate flower..who likes room service when she ventures away from home.   Oh, and Storm is my honest-to-goodness real name, not a nickname.  Dad's name was Smogelum, and they called him Smokey.  He wanted my name something close to his.   Sigh, I always wanted one of those Hollywood Indian names, like Fierce Elk Woman or Runs Really Fast With Scissors, but no such luck.  My tribe doesn't do those kind of cool names.

 @StormR  well, I picked you as a live off the land guy so WA makes sense.  That with your nic.   I shoulda guessed!

 @meankitteh1 everyone has to eat the eyeball.  It's a rule.

 @Tango9  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b  PS - don't bother sending me the rent money...just send me one of those PX2Fury flashlights and a Gerber knife :)

 @Tango9  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b Oh dang, you're going to be sleeping in the car when your wife finds out that you just lost the rent money :)    Washington State - told you I was a Coast Salish Indian.  My tribe are river and bay folks.  So...grew up eating whatever we could catch, pick or shoot...and we ate ALL of it.  When I was really young, my Auntie took me and cousins to the White river to pick out our cooking stones, and then to strip cedar bark and make a cooking basket..so I learned how to cook fish-head stew in a basket with some roots we dug near White Swan & Yakima.  Today..well, I would physically hurt anyone that tried to take my micro-wave away :) :)

Oh No! Dear man I am so glad that I am an honored guest here but I could not possibly take that eyeball from you! No, no, I insist that you would make me very happy as your guest if YOU ate the eyeball!

Storm, yuck! I just am not that hungry. I don't even like chicken on a bone anymore ... reminds me of tendons on open fractures and other traumatic injuries. OMG my granfather loved squirrel so much so I decided I would make it for him ...  shooting the little thing was fine but dear Lord after I skinned it it looked like ... well human. NEVER again.

 @StormR  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b ok maybe Louisiana.

 @StormR  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b west virginia or missippi.  I'll bet the rent.

 @StormR  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b LOL "I'm used to my food looking at me while I eat it." 

that is quite possibly the most messed up thing I've read for a while.  Where the heck are you from?  I gotta know. 

 @Tango9  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b Not on purpose :)   Grew up eating the stuff.  I'm used to my food looking at me while I eat it.  Jarred blubber is an 'acquired' taste, though.  A Haidi friend sends me some every couple of years.

 @StormR  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b LOL storm have you done SERE?

 @Tango9  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b Save it for me.  I'm full up after my big pot of Salmon fish-head stew and frybread, with jarred blubber for dessert.

 @StormR  @Tango9  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b Yup. we're good.  Who wants to eat the eyeball?

Okaaay! Got you to blissed out on the sugar. To far into the coma. <snaps fingers> No, enough of that Tango. It is finished. You did fine and I hope when someone comes sideways at me I have someone like you to at my back. It is over; let it go. He will be back he has things to say and lots of things to add. Then you guys will be cyber-talking over a cyber-beer.

PS: you are a nice guy or you would not have gotten mad at him for talking shit.

@Tango9 @meankitteh1 @Michael Golembesky @j10b Storms takes deep, calming breath: Okay, Tango, T, T9..yes, there may have been a softer, gentler way to deal with it. Your manner was extremely professional in discussing those things in your area of expertise AND in your responsibility as moderator...until he said your brother was full of doo-doo and so were you, and then you reacted. Just like you reacted when someone talked trash about Laura yesterday. So, no..don't apologize for protecting what you hold dear. Yes, lesson learned..when someone starts pushing your button, back away and let another moderator step in. I've been there done that (and there ain't anything more quarrelsome than a bunch of Indians who all think they have the only RIGHT answer). Soo, lesson learned and now fracking let it go. You (I, anyone) can't possibly know what triggered him. From the strength of his disdain for the video, I suspect it was a personal experience, but that's only my opinion. You, we, anyone can't know now. It's a flipping shame it came down that way, but there it is (shrugs shoulders). Oh, and bite the damn bunny

 @Recon6  @StormR  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b sometimes things go sideways and sometimes I'm the guy that caused it.  It happens and I'll be the first guy to call me on being silly..  This ended up being something far below the level of SOFREP.  As a moderator here, I shouldn't have let it happen.  I have more respect for the guys that built this place, and I count them as friends.

My behavior yesterday was totally unprofessional and it will never happen again.

Fuzzy bunnies :)

 @Recon6  @StormR  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b Brother I'm trying to be a born again nice guy.  I like flowers and cute animals.  I repeat this to myself over and over and over. Give peace a chance!

 @meankitteh1  @Michael Golembesky  @j10b Yeah.  I blame me.  No I seriously blame me I should have handled it better.  Mistakes made, lessons learned and all that.

@meankitteh1 @Tango9 Cats, dogs and horses are four-legged people. And I know for a fact that my cat is smarter than me. Rabbits and chickens are dinner :)

 @StormR  @Tango9 LOL at least you did not say to stew the kitteh!

 @StormR  @Tango9  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b   Storm, I was ready to JDAM your response Until the final two words, LOL   I Cannot see T9 traipsing thru the daisies with a big Smile, lol

    He would have some weapons stashed somewhere on his property!   R6

 @StormR  @Tango9 exactly!

@Tango9 Bunnies...yummmmm..fried bunny, stewed bunny. Oh, oops...I meant to say: good bunny, sweet bunny..fuzzy pink bunny with cute button nose and floppy ears. And chicks...little baby fuzzy yellow chicks.

fuzzy bunnies.

 @meankitteh1  @LauraWalkerKC  @StormR  @Michael  @j10b I appreciate the feedback. 

 @Tango9  @LauraWalkerKC  @StormR  @Michael  @j10b Hey! You Laura! Stop it!  I am exposing Tango to kittehs and rainbows to put him into a sugar coma for awhile! Storm the pyre has some interesting possibilities though.

I think what I am getting at is the reaction to the post was all out of proportion to the video not on Tango's side either. So he was saying a lot that did not necessarily have to do with this post. It was a missed opportunity. He was most concerned about "friendly fire".

@Tango9 @meankitteh1 @Michael @j10b Don't call anyone a twit while you doing it, or they will throw you out (voice of experience speaking). Umm, perhaps you need something a bit more manly to visualize...sparkly vampires instead of sparkly unicorns?

 @LauraWalkerKC  @StormR  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b LMAO!  girl you know better. 

No silly, you don't need a time out. It is a bit hard to have (for lack of a better phrase) situational awareness on the web. You don't get to see anyones pupils dilate, skin color, venous distension, where their head & shoulders just swiveled to, etc. It is inferential by language being typed only. So, on this I think that supersekrit ninja that lurks over your shoulder  should give you a pass. I have all the comments and you were not a total turd.

I am in hopes he comes back and hangs.

 @Tango9  @StormR  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b   You go Bronie on me and I will beat it out of you, brother.

 @StormR  @Tango9  @meankitteh1  @Michael  @j10b  I'm doing fluffy kittens and rainbows therapy right now.

@Tango9 @meankitteh1 @Michael Golembesky @j10b Awwww, it's okay. You just need an itty bitty more practice with the wind-through-grass--rainbows & teddy bears-sparkly unicorns-fluffy kittens mediation thingy....while unarmed.

@Recon6 @Tango9 @Michael Golembesky @j10b This is the FIRST time I have understood any military slang since I've been on this site. Thanks, Recon6!! Errrr, I guess this also tells you when the last time was that I hung around soldiers :)

 @meankitteh1  @Michael Golembesky  @j10b I could have handled it better.  As I told the ninja secret squirrel SOFREP web manager this morning (he called me... poor guy I drive him crazy):  I didn't mean to shoot him!

I'm in time out.  Yesterday was high noon on main street in Deadwood and I had both pistols out.  I have GOT to stop doing that.

 @Tango9  @Michael Golembesky  @j10b    T9, Awwww shit bro, check your 6 !!  Most ricky tick  then didi mau     R6

 @Tango9  @Michael Golembesky  @j10b 

This is going to sound all fluffy and stupid but here goes and I hope I don't get slapped by him for saying it  but if he does slap so be it. I think that guy needed you guys Tango. I wish he had stayed & I hope he comes back ....  angry or not. He did run but I went back & read his comments from my follow-up e-mails and I don't think cowardice made him run. Just my take on it.

 @Michael Golembesky  @j10b there's a dude that sits in the SOFREP background.  He's a great guy. He runs the site for the most part.  His identity is classified super squirrel top secret.  He's ninja.

I know he wants to kill me right now.

I'm ducking him.  You haven't seen me and I was never here!

 @Tango9  @j10b He left? I missed it all, had to go to work. I really wish he would have taken more of a constructive approach and contributed here.

I don't know Tango I wish he had stayed. He was wrapped a little tight but wish he had stayed.

 @Michael Golembesky  @j10b The only kind of people I really detest are those that run.

 @Michael Golembesky  @j10b He deleted all his comments.  Dude could have probably contributed here a lot but because he and I locked horns for a few minutes he fled. 

That's just stupid.  Oh well.

 @j10b  @Michael Golembesky  @ed I mean seriously.  Dude I've gone out of my way to accommodate you but you just keep pressing.  I'm going to ask you nicely:  please stop.

It's the last time I ask.

 @j10b  @Michael Golembesky  @ed You're trying to piss me off?

 @Tango9  @Michael Golembesky  @ed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlvedYbmvTM

 @j10b  @Michael Golembesky and to answer your question:  "What do you do" 

mostly golf.  I teach.  lay around in my spider man underwear.  Watch some TV.  mow the lawn.  write a little bit... you really want to know?  I could go on.

 @j10b  @Michael Golembesky I don't have to look it up I sent probably 100 of them to PJ/TACP/CCT school and 1 made it.  I'm familiar.

I should have been a cook.  Dammit that would have rocked.You're making a mistake.

 @j10b  @Michael Golembesky and what the fuck was brandon wrong about on CCTs?  I'm AF so you qualify that shit.  Like now.

 @j10b  @Michael Golembesky You're assuming the CAS didn't know the frienlies loc but if you watch the video the JTAC calls his position.  No friendly fire, the apache teams did a good job (not great job, the gunner can't shoot for shit) and they killed all the right people.  How fucking more right would you have had this engagement go??? Seriously?  dead bad guys, live good guys and women and children. 

It doesn't get much more un-fucked than this.  Was it perfect?  no.  pretty damn close though.

 @j10b  @Michael Golembesky yeah you know everything.  Sorry man didn't mean to impinge on your mastery of CAS. 

 @j10b  @Michael Golembesky when steel flies no one does everything perfectly.  ease up.

 @j10b  @Michael Golembesky was there any friendly fire?  nope.  easy crusher.

 @Michael Golembesky  @j10b J1... Im with Mike on this one.  The JTAC called his position.  And hellfires are ass in general for CAS.  Granted the dude at the end took one to the face but that's the exception to the rule. 

Monday morning airmchair quarterbacking is just that. 

Those guys kicked ass and got it done.  They knew where the friendlies were and you can tell from the video the crew thought through every kill.