1985 Plane Crash of Arrow Air Flight 1285 in Gander, Newfoundland

[TheSpecialist]

Originally Posted by Soundbounder

I've read portions of it, and from a historical perspective, the book is severely flawed. No documentation, no sources, and also some bogus claims about himself being involved with the preparation of the raid to kill OBL.

Chuck Pfarrer left the Navy in 1989 to write fiction such as the awful movie "Barb Wire." Gotta remember that Disney filed to trademark "SEAL Team 6" the day after the Bin Laden raid. This little PR fluff is just Pfarrer positioning for his storyline.

Entertaining story.....but lousy history.

Where did you read that he had something to do with the planning, I have not read that yet and I am at the point where they killed Bin Laden already?

[Soundbounder]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

Where did you read that he had something to do with the planning, I have not read that yet and I am at the point where they killed Bin Laden already?

Pfarrer claims he is still part of the fighting SEAL network, even intimating that he was part of the bin Laden raid preparation.

“In the weeks and months leading up to Neptune’s Spear (the code name for the bin Laden mission), it was my privilege to help troops and platoons train for submissions and run parallel HVT (high-value target) missions,” Pfarrer writes.

Spec ops command: SEAL raid book ‘a lie’ - Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Navy Times

[TheSpecialist]

Originally Posted by Soundbounder

Spec ops command: SEAL raid book ‘a lie’ - Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Navy Times

It is their duty to deny everything, you think they want the world to know about Stealth Hawk choppers, or operational know how? It's called disinformation. Besides we can debate this else where, this post is about something else...

[spence]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

It is their duty to deny everything, you think they want the world to know about Stealth Hawk choppers, or operational know how? It's called disinformation. Besides we can debate this else where, this post is about something else...

It's their duty to deny everything...unless you want to write a book about it? Something doesn't add up there.

-spence

[TheSpecialist]

Originally Posted by spence

It's their duty to deny everything...unless you want to write a book about it? Something doesn't add up there.

-spence

What doesn't add up? That a former seal with ties to the community wrote a book, and after the ten different stories the White house puts out, his doesn't jibe with their last. So the DEVGRU always follows Washington, and discounts the book big deal. You do not have to take every word in the book as gospel you choose. Me I know the government keeps alot of stuff from the public, that's to keep the peace, and make people feel safe and I accept that. The book is still a good read. Bottom line the WhiteHouse should have kept their mouth shut about the BinLaden raid, let them go over the intel and see who or what else they could of got, before they let the whole world know. Instead a president with a low approval rating at the time wanted to boost it, and let it go public. Then in the days that followed many different versions were released by the WhiteHouse. We will never know the truth only those on the ground will. The bottom line is if you believe the Whitehouse versions, then the ones by this author, who was a seal and participated in similar missions, are just as believable.