I am liking it. I will have to watch it to the end.
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It's been really good so far through the first three episodes.
I have a question though and I hope this isn't a spoiler. If the LT is South African, how did he get to become a SEAL? Not sure if he became a US Citizen beforehand. Sure does have a thick accent though.
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Originally posted by Fire Away: It's been really good so far through the first three episodes.
I have a question though and I hope this isn't a spoiler. If the LT is South African, how did he get to become a SEAL? Not sure if he became a US Citizen beforehand. Sure does have a thick accent though.
I had an Airman that was Russian. He became a US citizen after he was already enlisted. Did his citizenship ceremony at Mount Rushmore.
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I have a question though and I hope this isn't a spoiler. If the LT is South African, how did he get to become a SEAL? Not sure if he became a US Citizen beforehand. Sure does have a thick accent though.
I am sure there are other examples, but the real life one that recently came to my mind after your comment was Drago Dzieran who was a political prisoner in communist Poland, escaped, came to America, became an American Citizen, joined the Navy, and became a SEAL.
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Originally posted by Fire Away: It's been really good so far through the first three episodes.
I have a question though and I hope this isn't a spoiler. If the LT is South African, how did he get to become a SEAL? Not sure if he became a US Citizen beforehand. Sure does have a thick accent though.
I’m reminded of Col. Rick Rescorla, born in Cornwall in the UK, former British Army paratrooper, who became a bird Colonel in the US Army. He was a platoon leader under LTC Hal Moore at the Battle of Ia Drang. It’s Rescorla’s picture on the cover of Moore and Galloway’s book, We Were Soldiers. He emigrated to the US, and enlisted.
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I have never come across the original story but it’s a new show on Prime and I miss SEAL Team 6 so I’m watching it.
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This isn't bad for the genre I suppose, but I have to be honest and say that I'm about SEALed out. I'm pretty much done. If I hear "brother" or "downrange" or "operator", etc... anymore I want to pull my fargin hair out (what's left of it). And then we've got the stereotypical ripped young guy with every inch of exposed skin covered in tattooes, long hair and a badass beard. Can we be done with them already? Fine, most of them are badasses. We've established that. Does every action movie need to portray them or emulate them?
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lol. I heard Hallmark is working on a new plot, just like the many ways of how Steven Segall’s faces show different reactions.
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"But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock "If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it." Clarence Worley
Finished this season off tonight, highly recommended, lots of action, don't get too attached to anybody.
"But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock "If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it." Clarence Worley
Originally posted by Fire Away: I have a question though and I hope this isn't a spoiler. If the LT is South African, how did he get to become a SEAL? Not sure if he became a US Citizen beforehand. Sure does have a thick accent though.
When I was training recruits for the Navy, I regularly had recruits that were foreign nationals. Some were there to get citizenship, some for the experience.
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I thought it was an excellent series, better than The Terminal List. I like that they brought in Raife Hastings, who is in the books I've read, True Believer and Only the Dead.
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