{"id":16707,"date":"2010-01-14T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16707"},"modified":"2010-01-14T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:11:09","slug":"top-10-bad-ass-military-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16707","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Bad-Ass Military Units?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some assclown named FlameHorse over at Listverse.com <\/a>decided to demonstrate an amazing level of ignorance by posting his opinion of the top ten Special Forces units in the world.<\/p>\n

FlameHorse seems to know about as much about Special Forces as I do about rare blood disorders in aardvarks, applied quantum physics or why in the hell anyone would give a shit about what is happening with Jay Leno and Conan. These are all mysteries to me and so I avoid beclowning myself by offering my opinion about them.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s the assclown\u2019s list but more at the link.<\/p>\n

10. Spetznaz (Russia)
\n 9. French Naval Commandos
\n 8. MARSOC (USA)
\n 7. MI-6 (Great Britain)
\n 6. Rangers (USA)
\n 5. Green Beret (USA)
\n 4. Delta Force (USA)
\n 3. Shayetet 13 (Israel)
\n 2. SEALs (USA)
\n 1. SAS (Great Britain)<\/p>\n

There are some obvious flaws in the list and other than Google hits, who knows what his criteria was for picking these units or putting them in this order. Most of these are legitimate Bad-Ass Units but there are a couple of indicators that Mr. FlameHorse doesn\u2019t know jack-shit about Special Forces.<\/p>\n

The obvious idiot pick is the Russian Spetznaz. This is without a doubt the most over rated special ops unit in the history of special ops. The French Naval Commandos are certainly well trained but their internal politics leaves them rarely utilized and thus unable to be measured. MARSOC has a similar problem in that it has only been around for a bit over three years and their biggest accomplishment so far seems to have been getting kicked out of the combat zone at least once.<\/p>\n

The rest of these units can make a claim to being on a top ten list and given the divergence of their missions it is impossible to rank order them. Only a retard would try to do that.<\/p>\n

If you want to arm, train and lead a tribal force to overthrow a warlord, don\u2019t call a SEAL team. If you want to spearhead a forced insertion of enemy territory with massive violence and over whelming fire superiority you might not want MI-6 as your only option. If you don\u2019t want your operation on the front page with a huge body count, it might not be a perfect Ranger operation.<\/p>\n

And of course if it doesn\u2019t include open opportunity for TDY fraud the Green Beret are probably not interested.<\/p>\n

Aside from the obvious flaws, Mr. FlameHorse gives the following insight when he put the Rangers on the list:<\/p>\n

But then, they lose a few points for an incident a Ranger told me about: he was the captain of a tank regiment on maneuvers in the Amazon jungle. Just an exercise, but because of the sweltering heat, they had to open their tank hatches. This captain, who shall remain nameless, heard a thump behind him, and turned to see a Goliath Bird-eating Spider crawling toward him, raising its front legs and hissing.
\nHe admits to screaming like a girl, knifing the tarantula, jumping out of the tank and running off into the jungle for a mile and a half. His buddies still rib him about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tank Regiment?
\nAmazon jungle?
\nA spider that made a thump on a tank?
\nKnifing a tarantula?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know about your \u201cRanger\u201d buddy but do your friends rib you about being an idiot?<\/p>\n

I would like to think that some old Ranger did tell this idiot this story and laughs at him while he\u2019s drinking FlameHorse\u2019s beer and ravaging his girlfriend.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey Flamer, why don\u2019t you go grab another 12-pack and some pork rinds. I\u2019ll tell you about being a door gunner on the Space Shuttle.\u201d Then smiling at FH\u2019s girlfriend, \u201cand take your time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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