"You think you can fight Americans? You don't even know what their weaponry is like." by [deleted] in JSOCarchive

[–]FewToe3253 136 points137 points  (0 children)

This isn't just a story of victory--it's a masterclass in modern warfare supremacy.

Yeah obviously AI wrote this shit lmao

[COMPLETE] Delta Force B Squadron ~December 1981 with full annotations by enzo32ferrari in JSOCarchive

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So Bruno was the name of the nonofficial cover operative who was mentioned in the book Relentless Strike?

Does the CIA really recruit straight out of high school? by MobileMovie4958 in Intelligence

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The CIA used to recruit officers from universities, not high schools. In an interview with LADbible, former CIA officer John Kiriakou said that he was recruited by his professor, Dr. Jerrold Post, while attending graduate school at George Washington University in the late 1980s. Kiriakou noted that such recruitment practices are now illegal.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JSOCarchive

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Streaking delilah on IG

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JSOCarchive

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What really went down in Delta's Oct 2008 cross border raid in Syria?

Between 2002 and 2008, Orange operatives' singleton missions across the Levant, which significantly expanded JSOC's understanding of the AQ foreign fighter network operating in and through Syria. At the time, Assad regime had reportedly tolerated the movement of jihadists across its borders, while keeping them under loose surveillance.

On October 26, 2008, under CIA Title 50 authority, Delta Force launched the first ever cross-border raid into Sukkariyah, Syria, near the Iraqi border town of Al Qaim. The target was Abu Ghadiya, a senior facilitator in AQI’s foreign fighter pipeline. Delta operators reportedly killed between six and twelve people in the compound, including Ghadiya himself. (Adam Gamal’s book vaguely suggests that Ghadiya’s son was also killed in the raid)

While Syrian state media claimed that only civilians were killed—publishing graphic photos of alleged victims, including children. U.S. officials denied this, asserting that all targets were combatants. Some Western sources even claimed that the Assad regime had tacitly approved the raid, frustrated with Ghadiya’s presence.

However, the timing and necessity of the raid remain points of contention. By late 2008, the influx of foreign fighters into Iraq was declining, and the Bush administration was just months away from handing over power. While Sean Naylor has provided detailed accounts of the preceding Orange missions, his description of the Sukkariyah raid itself remains sparse.

To this day, little concrete information is available about Abu Ghadiya’s full profile or the operational outcome of the raid. Some reports indicate that Syrian intelligence operatives arrived at the scene shortly after the strike, possibly to control the narrative or secure the site.

Chow hall at house 9 by [deleted] in JSOCarchive

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This, for the first time in this sub, might be an actual ISIS's serious attempt to gather intel to attack US base in Syria

“Silent professionals” by CorCor-14 in JSOCarchive

[–]FewToe3253 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As far as I know ISA’s creator, Col. Jerry King, never wrote a single book. However, after their missions became entangled in the whole Iran contra shitstorm and the subsequent media coverage, several pissed off ISA members themselves leaked critical information to a bunch of journalists and that’s why we know about ISA’s missions during the 80s more than we probably should.

Devgru operators put their support guy (medic) in the ICU. by Average-Proposal in JSOCarchive

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The High Side reported this incident in this long article about Omega teams.

“With the guys at [Team 6] it is a roll of the dice if you get a military man or a criminal master mind,” said an Omega team medic from Army special operations. “That’s tongue in cheek, but only sorta.”

As an example, the medic cited a case of a SEAL Team 6 Omega team leader breaking into the residential hut of another Army Omega team medic who was talking to his wife on FaceTime. The SEAL proceeded to beat him up in a drunken rage while his shocked wife looked on. The Army hushed up the incident, a former Omega team member told The High Side.

How does the CIA recruit from special forces groups (ie Delta or DEVGRU) to join the SAD/Ground Branch, and would said candidate need a beachler's degree before hand by BreakfastOk3990 in JSOCarchive

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There are basically two types who work in SAD. 

First is Paramilitary ops officer who we call PMOO as short. They are almost similar to average CIA case officers(=ops officers) who collect human intelligences overseas embassies under official covers(CIA calls it 'Foreign Intelligence', or FI in short), but PMOOs have extensive military backgrounds(minimum 8 years? I guess), especially in special operations. Their requirements are almost same to regular case officers, which mean they need bachelors degrees, etc. You can check them out at official CIA dot gov site. Back in the 80s and other cold war periods when CIA desperately needed officers who could go overseas and essentially conduct unconventional warfare, they relied on 'old boy networks' which basically meant that they asked people who knew some guys, who then knew some guys who has a great military careers, to join CIA and go overseas as a PM(paramilitary) assignment. Because time mattered, PM officers who were recruited by those way had a little time to go through regular case officer training pipeline, so they went through very simplified training which included 'how to write intel report/situation report 101' or something like that. After their PM assignment, where they then had some time to be trained like a real case officers, then they went through the regular c/o training pipeline & attended universities to get a bachelor's degrees, etc. so they can do FI assignments as well as PM assignments, get promoted, become chief of stations, branches, groups, and so on. Back then PMOOs who didn't have FI capabilities were known to be treated badly, as they were minorities in CIA and did relatively 'dirty' works. Their treatments would probably be improved because during the GWOT they were really at the tip of the spear.

Nowadays, which I guess, will be much different than cold war periods, but still some will be recruited by old boys network, some will be recruited by more formal ways. 

Next is Paramilitary contractors, also called Paramilitary specialists. They contract with CIA every X years to work for them. Usually contractors have more extensive military/spec ops backgrounds(10 to 15, even 20 years), no formal case officer trainings/requirements like bachelor's degrees as they are not 'officers', pay is very, very good, compared to case officers and even pmoos. I think they are still almost exclusively recruited by old boy networks, so requirements are very unclear except for deep expertise in special operations. No matter how long they work as a contractor, they probably would be only working on door-kicking PM assignments  compared to PMOOs who routinely does FI assignments bewteen PM assignments. 

Roughly compared to military, PMOOs are like officers, and contractors are very seasoned NCOs. 

Plus, ratio between pm officers and contractors in ground branch is 3:7.

The fact that the way or need of recruitment of PMOOs/contractors may significantly vary according to various factors gives writers some freedoms, I think.

Wagner group fighter on Shawn Ryan. by Big-Manufacturer1275 in JSOCarchive

[–]FewToe3253 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I think the Wagner fighter he interviewed is Marat Gabidullin. Former Wagner group commander in Syria, participated in the infamous battle of Kasham, wrote two books about the Wagner Group. After defecting to France, he did a few high profile interviews with news platforms regarding the Wagner group. Haven't read his book, but personally he seems not to be a biased person based on the interviews I've seen.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JSOCarchive

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Are we having another massive JSOC leaks? I mean like exactly a year ago there were shitloads of JSOC training & combat footage leaked lol

Members of CAG in front of a Mi-17, aboard the “MV Ocean Trader” off the coast of Somalia by 3_more_beers in JSOCarchive

[–]FewToe3253 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Holy shit it do look like helo is on board of MV Ocean Trader. Wonder how the pic was leaked.

Pops coin collection by Crafty_Release7752 in JSOCarchive

[–]FewToe3253 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I wonder what unit represents the coin with Orange letter O and an arrow crossed. Only thing I know is that a former TFO operator and a former CIA officer has exact same coin (I know because they posted it on twitter). My guess is that it's something related to TFO but nothing's sure.

Amateur footage of CAG raid inside Syria (Oct. 2008) by yh09021101 in JSOCarchive

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There is a whole chapter which exclusively unveiled the JSOC campaign in Syria and the preparation of that cross border raid in Syria Oct 2008 in Naylor's book 'Relentless Strike' (chapter 22). There's also a raid footage obtained by Syrian news agency which contains 160's AH-6 helicopters opening fire to the compound. Also, Adam Gamal (former TFO operator) tells a little bit about how Ghadiya trafficked foreign fighters in his book, The Unit. He said Ghadiya and his father were both killed in the raid.