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There are 15.8 million veterans in the U.S. and they used the most downloaded car rental app in 2023.
So I guess that's the link?
I know this shouldn't be funny, but it does feel like obvious propaganda. Like "OMG they both wore Nike sneakers! Nike must be a secret supporter of right-wing terrorists!"
That's exactly what it's like. It's grasping at straws because terrorism accusations get more viewers for the media and support for the security state.
The only thing that piques my interest there is, if that guy intended a larger explosion -- and maybe he didn't, maybe he just wanted to get the thing in the news than to do a lot of damage -- how he couldn't pull it off, if the guy was a Green Beret.
investigates
It sounds like his MOS was communications, not an 18C (engineering specialist). Maybe they just leave explosives to the guys with that MOS.
https://nationalguard.com/special-forces-qualification-course
The engineering specialist clearly deals with this:
18C Engineer Sergeant Course
This course trains and qualifies NCOs in the basic skills and knowledge required to perform duties as an engineer sergeant on an SFOD-A. Special Forces engineer sergeants are experts in employing offensive/defensive combat engineer capabilities to include demolitions, explosives and improvised munitions, construction, homemade explosives, target reconnaissance, and target analysis. Soldiers learn to read blueprints as well as design and construct theater-of-operations buildings, complete with plumbing, electrical and HVAC systems; field fortifications and Special Forces Tactical Facility construction; advanced demolition techniques utilizing U.S., allied, foreign and civilian demolition components; firing systems; calculation; and placement of charges, expedient charges and range operations. They can recruit, organize, train, and advise or command indigenous combat forces up to company size.
What a communications specialist would do:
18E Communications Sergeant Course
This course trains and qualifies NCOs in the basic skills and knowledge required to perform duties as a communications sergeant on an SFOD-A using some of the most sophisticated communications equipment in the Army. Special Forces communications sergeants learn U.S., allied and selected foreign communication systems found throughout the world and are capable of employing and accessing SF, joint and interagency communications. Communications sergeants have a thorough understanding of radio theory; basic electricity; radio telephone procedures; signal-operating instructions; communication security; power applications; information operations, electronic warfare and advanced communications procedures; satellite theory; the use of satellite radios such as the AN/PSC-5C/D, AN/PRC-117G and BGAN antenna and the radios' modes of operation; Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA), High Performance Wave-Form (HPW) and point-to-point operations; satellite communications links, encryption and decryption; computer technology, including computer systems networking, troubleshooting, assembly and applications (computer applications A+ training and NET+ training); network computers in a LAN and WAN configuration; server/routers setup; and FM, AM, HF, VHF and UHF radio system maintenance. Communications sergeants prepare the communications portion of area studies, brief backs, and operation plans and orders. Other duties and responsibilities of the SF communications sergeant include communications planning such as transmission site selection, signal support in the Special Forces group, MDMP, mission planning, and preparing a signal annex. They can recruit, organize, train, and advise or command indigenous combat forces up to company size.
This page -- I have no idea whether it's accurate -- has a screenshot of his bio, says that he was an 18E (communications), 18F (intelligence), and 18Z (senior leadership) at different points in time. It also has some comments that the explosives seem unexpected for a Green Beret, so it's not just me wondering about that:
I don't get an 18E using fireworks and fuel as an explosive. There are many different more powerful and easy to manufacture for someone who was an operator
I think after my first deployment I learned enough about HME to start a demolition business. No one with any knowledge of explosives would have used this.
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I kind of wish that there was a bot that could auto-validate that at post time for communities that want it.
Doesn't even have to be a hard ban on any changes (like, I think that cleaning up garbled ISO entities in titles or stripping trailing website names from titles is entirely reasonable), but just compare title and submitted title, and if they differ, add a top-level comment with the original title.
On Reddit, I remember that /r/Europe eventually took a pretty strict line on that after people kept editorializing titles.