American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politicians in the Middle East

Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by gnulinux on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:26PM (#18233432)

Pretty much everyone can be a merc but to be SDE in Facebook you need quite a bit of privilege to be well-educated or insane amount of self-discipline, motivation and focus to educate yourself. Apples&Oranges.

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by skeptic_69 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:32PM (#18233489)

i think become a seal/green beret is pretty challenging !

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by mywittyname on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:53PM (#18233624)

Correct. It's straight-forward to get into the regular special forces. Anyone with slightly better than average intelligence and physique can make it.

The elite special forces is a completely different ballgame. You need to be smarter and more fit than probably 90% of the population. Lots of these guys end up doing very well for themselves after leaving the military.

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by SaltyBackendGuy on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:11PM (#18234079)

> regular special forces. Anyone with slightly better than average intelligence and physique can make it.

From personal experience I can say this is incorrect. The 'regular' special forces are the Green Berets (Top 5% of the Army). Elite special forces (CAG/Delta) 5% of the 5%

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by ryanwaggoner on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:58PM (#18234353)

You have a ridiculously optimistic view of the US population if you think that 10% of us could become Navy SEALs.

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by mywittyname on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:59AM (#18239034)

You misunderstood my comment. Top 10% in both intelligence AND top 10% in potential physical fitness. Which has a ceiling of top 1% (0.10 * 0.10), but practically speaking, it's probably closer to top 0.1%.

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by beaconstudios on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:55AM (#18238465)

if you go by YouTube comments, 10% already are.

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by jki275 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:02AM (#18238130)

comments like this are just silly.

Not even 1% of the military can get into SOF, and that's less than 1% of general US population.

The people who get through BUD/S are generally Olympic class athletes who are selected for very specific mental and physical traits that are almost non-existent in the general population. There's absolutely nothing straightforward about getting into any SOF organization.

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