Don Bendell

I went to Newsweek’s site, joined, and posted the following comment in regards to the insulting ludicrous article. Fell free to share, if you’d like:

You pompous asses. How dare you write: “The ghetto of Special Forces.” I have sons in harm’s way in your so-called SF Ghetto, and I served in Special Forces myself in Vietnam . Being the “quiet professionals” that they are the US Army Special Forces, as always, allowed conventional units to take the credit, but they were who captured Saddam Hussein, killed his two sons, fatally wounded and captured al-Zarkawi, and captured or killed almost every major insurgent and al-Qaida leader in Iraq and Afghnaistan. Who do you think was on the ground already painting laser targets for the jets in both the first and second war in Iraq ? Who do you think actually killed Che Guevara but allowed the host country to take credit for it? A close friend of mine from your SF ghetto, retired Command Sergeant Major Billy Waugh, personally and single-handedly tracked down and captured the infamous Carlos the Jackal and allowed the French police to take the bust. You talked about the cost to train soldiers, yet the cost is more then ten-fold that to train those who wear the Green Beret, and they are men who never stop training. You have entered the SF ghetto indeed, my Hood and insulted my gang, whose colors are forest green and olive drab, and it is the toughest, meanest, baddest gang in the history of the world, and SF, not giant conventional armies, is the solution to future wars. Special Force’s main mission is to infiltrate behind enemy lines and teach and arm the indigenous to fight their own battles, so Americans soldiers in your giant WWII wannabe units do not have to fight and be killed for them. I used to be a young captain, Gentlemen, and your company grade officers will win no wars, Their men will. I am telling you to learn to think outside the box because sergeants in today’s Special Forces have much more knowledge and better training than any company grade or field grade officer in my day. If you want us to win wars, write an expose on the so-called colonels, generals, and admirals in our new military who do not know one thing about loyalty to chain of command, only feathering their own nests with outrageous comments criticizing their superiors, so they can later get a job in politics or on a cable news network. These same Chairborne rangers are then shocked when nobody wants to follow them to the PX, let alone to hell and back. De Oppresso Liber! Don Bendell , Colorado , 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th Special Forces Groups.

Don Bendell

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Don Bendell, 61, is an author of 26 books including a number of military thrillers with over 1,500,000 copies in print worldwide and is a popular editorialist who has appeared on FOX NEWS LIVE, many national radio shows, and his editorials have been published all over the world. A 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, he and his wife also own karate schools in southern Colorado . A 60% disabled vet, Don served as an officer in 4 Special Forces Groups, including a 1968-1969 tour on an A-team in Vietnam as well as in the Top Secret Phoenix Program and has offspring serving in Special Forces now. He lives in Florence , Colorado . Write him at don@donbendell.com .