Recent content by roverandbrew

Driving through fire, tracking that fast Eland bull, Ronald's cooking, and grabbing the python are her fond memories.

"Dad....So Mike and I had to drive through fire to escape"......She loved it

I offer up my daughter again for the task..

With @spike.t in Zambia

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/13/us/politics/clinton-legal-letter-comer.html Their response in writing.

Make sure you bring your keyboard so you can send us SITREPS.

"We" ?

1- My Land Rover has not had issues in a while 2- Drinking too much is pretty objective…3- Likely I will be in Zambia with @spike.t for the forth time in two years this summer…I have an Eland to catch up with..

You knew the bartenders in Mister Babillas in Cartagena and had Fast Eddy on speed dial to deliver Pizza to Saravena. True asset.

What part of the world was your favorite and what people? By chance did you know Kevin Maurer, Steve Hebert, or Jeff Newton....They were pretty into conflict zone reporting?

I agree the African partners are behind Central / South American and European Units. I think we can attribute that to persistent vs episodic training and funding due to priorities in the world at the time. Remember when all of Africa fell under EUCOM and no one cared.

While not indenting to argue, I disagree. Increase authorities and permissions often come with increased resources because our US service members are assuming more risk. Increased resources generally increase lethality on the battlefield. ISR, CAS, MEDEVAC, Intel Support, QRF... all come to...

Not sure of your background or level of expertise but I would put ICTF or ANASOF as had a higher capability than the majority of our National Guard units in actual combat. Conscripts or GPF, you are right in most cases. Colombian SOF, prior to the current administration of theirs was doing HALO...

The "Combined" operation comes back to authorities and permissions.