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4 January 2023, 20:26
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TSgt Chapman
I continue to go back to this video. I have yet to see it without emotion, empathy, and sheer awe at what this MAN must have had going through his mind.
Alone, cold, outnumbered, wounded. THIS, gentleman, represents the best of US. Every viewing I am humbled that much more...I feel less worthy to have fought beside men such as this. A glass raised, a soldier received in the final patrol base, a legacy memorialized, an example....an INCREDIBLE example - never forgotten. Thank you all for listening. MOH on film
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4 January 2023, 21:46
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Rest Peacefully, Brother. You certainly hold a high seat in Valhalla.
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No one will take better care of us, than us: Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - G. Orwell The chair is against the wall, the chair is against the wall.
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4 January 2023, 21:54
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Words fail me with this Man. The video always brings me to the verge of tears. Proud that such Men lived.
Hats off to Dan Schilling for his incredible production and narration. The book is amazing too. Alone At Dawn.
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"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
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4 January 2023, 22:33
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Awesome book, even better true story.
I hope they get the film right as it’s all most will ever know, if at all. Most of us will die broken, fat, old, and probably somewhat envious of how MSGT Chapman died a warrior’s death, displaying peak performance, surrounded by enemies he vanquished. It’s the ultimate mike drop moment caught on video.
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"Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don't know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion." Colonel Flagg, psychopathic guest star of M.A.S.H.
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11 January 2023, 20:40
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Yes!
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5 August 2023, 11:55
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Guess they're going to make a movie about him.
https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/j...r-force-movie/
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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. Maynard James Keenan
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5 August 2023, 15:49
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Re: the movie:
https://www.socnet.com/showthread.php?t=139445
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"He who does not punish evil commands that it be done." -- Leonardo Da Vinci “That's when you find out that you're better off makin' sure your soul's alright” -- Prince
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4 January 2026, 18:32
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The more that comes out about what really happened the more the SEAL team leader and the Navy Brass look like jealous weasels. Not sure the chief should have received the Navy Cross much less the MOH.
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#12
Yesterday, 23:08
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The narration of one of the ISR vids doesn't comport with Blaber's review and recollection. Some discrepancies according to Blaber: 1) There is no "bunker 1." It's an open cooking area where the donkey was colocated. 2) Chapman didn't attack after the SEAL team left. IR shows his temperature going down rapidly. Blaber believes both Chapman and Roberts were dead when SEALs moved, 3) The firefight the narrator attributes to Chapman's "2nd MoH" was actually Taliban fratricide. The narrator attributed fire on the rescue helicopter to Chapman but Blaber points out that Chapman would not have shot at the helicopter. One of the 2 bodies found were wearing Roberts goretex pants. 4) Blaber says a Marine O-4 staff officer unaware of the terrain or situation 1,000 miles and a timezone away was tasked by the 1-star in charge of the theater to "rescue" Roberts. He ordered that team to "assault" the Taliban position. Blaber believes that language is what led Chapman, a rather young Airman, to move towards that cooking area when the rest of the SEAL team moved in a different location in defilade. Blaber notes that Chapman's trigger finger was best served on the PTT button bringing in fire support, not as an assaulter. Everyone on that team volunteered to return to the X where they were shot off only hours before with a known DShK covering the landing area. All deserved accolades for selfless bravery. They obviously cared for each other and the animus seems manufactured post operation. They all risked their lives for each other. They deserved better from some leaders and could have used a few weeks of acclimatization before being tasked with the original mission. It would have also been interesting if they could have assessed Roberts condition faster from IR. Post-mission showed he had a severed femoral artery after being shot on the ramp as well as a GSW to the head soon after falling. Blaber believed the IR showed he was dead within minutes and his clothing was obviously stolen. Finally, nobody that was there seems to have anything bad to say about Slabinski including Alan Mack and Blaber. Both are Army, not Navy or Air Force. Blaber w/ Brent Tucker
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