Re:US police receive less training than plumbers
by kkielhofner on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:21AM
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Exactly. He wasn’t speaking of the “door kickers” pejoratively, just pointing out the difference in mission. They drop in to kill/capture as you say and GTFO (SEAL - Sleep, eat, and lift).
Also there’s a bit of controversy in the SF community as they’ve spent more of their mission “door kicking” lately…
In terms of training, he’s Hispanic and with his language abilities (at least three fluently) travel anywhere SOCOM sends him he more or less blends in.
At certain times he’s described his mission as “teaching little brown guys how to fight”. That said he’s also described really dicey standoffs (literally weapons out and trained) with local militias, etc where finesse and nuance was the way to “win” (stay alive).
Point still being, police academies in the US train more “door kickers” (and poorly) than they do SF - which is what we need.
US Army Special Forces have completely different mission sets from SEALs/Delta etc, in which the latter does mostly kill/capture. SF does a lot more integration with host nation forces, training and so on. Not the same organizational goals, which is intentional.