FLAK

THEY’RE BOTH RIGHT!

I’m not sure whom I should write this to, but I figured I’d send it to you and you’d forward it to the right person. I just read the response from Dave Hood about the article about the Les Baer .223 M4 Sniper. Craig and Dave are both correct. Craig stated that it was good for 20 minutes at one atmosphere. I only know what they tell me, but if it can hold water out for 20 minutes, then everything he says is correct. Dave wrote that outside of the water you’re getting 14.7 psi from the outside atmosphere, which is also correct. Dave then writes that when you go to 33 ft, that would be a second atmosphere, which is also correct. The problem here is that neither of them state whether they are talking about gauge or absolute pressure. The only difference is that you add one atmosphere to gauge (which is the pressure that the water is exerting on you) to get absolute. So in other words 66 ft is 2 atmospheres gauge and 3 absolute. So no one is wrong here, it’s just semantics.

Jon Myers

Thanks for the info! – Ed.

BROKEN ARROW!

After reading Mike Linnane’s “The Quiet Professionals,” I am more convinced than ever that the Army Staff, with the approval of SecDef, is in the process of ending the US Army Special Forces. We should retitle this action “Headstone.” Of course the Army wants to finally rid itself of SF; of course the Marines are eager to get this responsibility; the Navy has been trying to get rid of them since WWII. Our Green Beret is going to end up on the ash heap of military history.

I have started poking the Special Forces Association to take up the fight. This is a “Broken Arrow” call. The SFA has among its members some of the greatest living legends of SF history. SFA has chapters in 35 states, 9 foreign countries and DC. We need coordinated talking points to take to our elected representatives; we need a national organization to lead the battle.

Name for me just one incident in Vietnam where a camp was attacked, a strike force surrounded, or any other time when our calls for help were answered by any conventional unit. If it were not for other camps or Mike Force many of us would not be here today. The conventional forces were content to let us fend for ourselves then and therefore we must fend for our brothers serving today.

Walter M. Oszczakiewicz

It may be even worse. See the follow-up article by Major General James Guest in this issue. – Ed.

LET’S GET THE ANTI-GUN LINE STRAIGHT HERE…

Let me see if I can get this straight!

A man murders two people in 1981, then only serves 14 years before being released. He recently tries to murder two more people using a firearm, near the scene of the previous crimes, and Clinton, Feinstein, Schumer, Kennedy, Obama, et. al., want to take my guns away???? What is wrong with that picture? And where have we seen this sad story, time, after time, after time??

I suspect that because these two victims lived, the unfortunate shooter, a victim of society no doubt, should receive a sentence that only requires serving 7 years, or just half the previous sentence.

Remember, you don’t need one of those nasty guns; the government will protect you!

Cynically yours,

Jay Printz, Sheriff (ret.)

NRA Board of Directors

Hamilton, MT

Yeah, this is the type of stuff that really frosts us, too. You get the armed and dangerous thugs who go out and commit crimes. Then they get out after a way-too-short prison sentence, then they go and commit more crimes. Keeping them locked up never seems to cross people’s minds… but they are willing to punish the law-abiding citizens for the acts of these criminals by telling them they can’t own certain guns or try to limit how many rounds we can have in a magazine. Talk about having it assbackwards… - Ed.

THE MAN ON THE COVER

My name is Rob Wilkins and the brave man [MA2 Michael Monsoor] on the cover of your magazine this month (June 2008 issue of SOF) is my wife’s cousin, known to us who love and respect him as Mikey When we first heard the news of Mikey we were devastated and heartbroken, but as time has gone by, I found myself a role model. I am a 41 year old Christian man that works hard every day and tries my best to make sure my family is well and safe. Mikey, only 25 years old at the time of his death, is the man I hope to someday be. I know I will never come close but I want to have at least some of the pride and courage he had. We all miss him terribly. Thank you so much for your kind words about Mikey and God Bless you and your wonderful staff.

Rob Wilkins

You are more than welcome. – Ed.

ROLLING UP BAD GUYS

We’re rolling up and killing bad guys daily over here and getting some big names off the street permanently. It’s going so fast that it is hard to keep up with. I sent a message off to one of our subordinate units two days ago warning them about an IED under an overpass. I got a response that they found they guy as he was emplacing it. He took a 5.56 to the head and the threat was reduced.

I’m looking forward to getting together over a nice cup of coffee some evening when I get back and telling war stories.

The above message is from one of our contacts amongst the Special Operations operators in Iraq. His upbeat tone certainly contradicts the drivel we get from the MSM - but that’s not surprising, is it? – RKB

DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN!

I was cleaning out a closet and came across an old issue of SOF (Sept 1992). It was good reading then and is good rereading now.

What really caught my eye was on pg. 39 titled Next Nukes - “But it’s Iran’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons that is producing the greatest concern in the West.”

I had to check the date on the magazine. Four presidential terms later the same crap is still going on. What do you think the odds are of a non-nuclear Iran at the end of 2012?

I bet you could re-publish “Mullahs on the Move” and few would notice that the article was sixteen years old.

Anyhow, time for me to get a current copy of your magazine.

Steve

Thanks! And yes, it is a familiar story. One wonders what might have happened had

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