tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post4328453452703183765..comments2024-03-28T02:15:54.903-04:00Comments on VISUP: The Secret History of Special Operations ForcesReclusehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510266038933358020noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-32429109933641395122019-12-02T01:47:35.419-05:002019-12-02T01:47:35.419-05:00saw this today - John T. Walton, heir to the Walma...saw this today - John T. Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune, was Army SF and was MACV-SOG during Vietnam:<br /><br />https://coffeeordie.com/walmart-macv-sog/andrewbigdoorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03898532022138215314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-33957494543821546342019-11-28T10:29:31.770-05:002019-11-28T10:29:31.770-05:00Some further Spec Ops commentary.
For someone who ...Some further Spec Ops commentary.<br />For someone who has never been in the military, I have ended up with an inordinate amount of acquaintances/friends who were career military. <br />One such gentlemen (20+ years in the US Army, retired as a major) had some background in Intel. He always downplayed it, but did admit that he had worked in that field.<br />Anyway, about 5 years ago, he told me some interesting things about continued post WWII resistance in Germany.<br />He told me that although it had been kept out of the news, as late as 1947, Allied forces were still fighting resistance groups in Germany; some of them large enough to require deployment of considerable amount of Allied forces; (at the "battalion level" was how he put it.)<br />He also said that that contrary to the story told (that they were detected and neutralized early) the Nazi Werewolf operations were both more extensive and more effective than post war assertions would have people believe.<br />Severin!!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16788063470326697611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-12875612922339281922019-11-28T09:51:23.491-05:002019-11-28T09:51:23.491-05:00To andrewbigdoor... thanks so much for the additio...To andrewbigdoor... thanks so much for the additional info on the SS/SF connection. Definitely things I was not aware of.<br />The information that I previously posted, about the honoring of SS commandos by American SF came to me (as I mentioned before) from a strange fellow I was briefly involved with. At the time that I met him, he was involved with the entertainment industry; had contacts in Hollywood, and the major TV networks. Like his SF credentials, I was able to see confirmation of this, so I know he wasn't just blowing smoke. <br />We met (seemingly) by chance, and after he found out about my interest in Nazi Germany, particularly the occult angle, he asked me to help with a screenplay he was working on. He was trying to make a film about the Hitler Munich days, with a special emphasis on the occult elements.<br />When we had that discussion about the SF, I was never sure exactly what his point was. I wasn't sure if the SS were being honored just because of their innovations and elan in battle; or if there was some kind of ideological sympathy between early Special Forces and the SS.<br />From what you are saying here, it sounds like it may have been both, but with a strong element of the latter.<br />Thanks again for passing that along.Severin!!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16788063470326697611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-5359972862682373632019-11-26T14:55:20.219-05:002019-11-26T14:55:20.219-05:00forgot the link to Beckwith:
https://en.wikipedia....forgot the link to Beckwith:<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alvin_Beckwithandrewbigdoorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03898532022138215314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-79250107136990166572019-11-26T14:55:01.009-05:002019-11-26T14:55:01.009-05:00early Army SF certainly learned a lot from the Bri...early Army SF certainly learned a lot from the British. the "father" of Delta Force was an American SF Officer named Charlie Beckwith, who as part of an exchange program, served with the SAS. he used that knowledge and experience to help form Delta and to train prospects. <br /><br />and your info about certain SF units paying homage to SS commandos...I related to Recluse a while a back a comment I stumbled upon on a very well connected Special Operations forum. there was an "old school" thread and the oldest of the old school on there mentioned a time in SF units where English wasn't the first language (and it wasn't Spanish) and certain team members still wore their SS insignias. andrewbigdoorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03898532022138215314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-56424470461546749282019-11-16T20:49:47.801-05:002019-11-16T20:49:47.801-05:00Thank you for your very interesting information. Thank you for your very interesting information. Delorushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05745438595618910465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-3112848686159520292019-11-09T08:54:15.790-05:002019-11-09T08:54:15.790-05:00Intriguing, as always; especially the parts about ...Intriguing, as always; especially the parts about the Fraser connections to Boleskine House. (Still trying to confirm if there were ever any sightings of the Loch Monster before Crowley resided there...)<br />Some notes on parallel developments with German special forces that may be of interest to you and your readers.<br />Insofar as I know, German commandos had their origin in the trenches of WWI. During the period when the forces had become deadlocked, certain inventive field commanders would hand pick different soldiers from various units who had showed a talent for relevant skills. I.e. close-in fighting, arson, explosives, and terror-tactics. In order to try and break the deadlock of movement, the German commanders would send these units "over the wire" into enemy dominated trenches to wreak havoc.<br />Of course, during WWII it was the Waffen-SS that made the most use of new training and combat methods of this kind. They had special anti-partisan units that they deployed on the Russian front and elsewhere.<br />I had a friend who had served in the U.S. Army Special Forces (he was cross-trained as a medic as I recall), who related to me the following information.<br />Though, of course, many of the U.S. commandos had been trained by British forces during the war, after the war, the U.S. military took a great interest in the elite German units; especially those of the Waffen-SS. He told me that at one point the U.S. Army S.F. had a shrine to fallen SS soldiers that they kept an "eternal flame" burning at.<br />For the record I did confirm that the person who disclosed this to me was really from U.S. S.F. I was able to see evidence of his service record, including photos of him in uniform in Vietnam, and the medals he had won there. Severin!!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16788063470326697611noreply@blogger.com