The author is not and was not SF qualified. He was a contractor as a civilian with the 10th after his 25 years in the Infantry. If this was from the SOA (Special Operations Association), the SFA Special Forces Association President and other elected officers (not one SFA chapter) or from Professional Soldiers.com and endorsed by the members it would be meaningful.
I briefly joined OathKeepers until I could no longer tolerate their paranoia and anti-Semitism.
I briefly joined OathKeepers until I could no longer tolerate their paranoia and anti-Semitism.
Kind of confusing. The OP was attributed to Rhodes, the founder of OK. But within the OP it also published the letter by SGM Joseph Santoro.
Neither appear to have been SpecOps.
Rhodes:
Following the family tradition, Stewart joined the Army straight out of high school at age eighteen, attending Basic, AIT and Jump School at Ft. Benning, GA and then serving as a paratrooper (11B1P Airborne Infantry) stationed first at Ft. Bragg, NC and then at Ft. Lewis, WA, where he served in a long range Airborne scout company for the 9th Infantry Division until disabled in a rough terrain parachuting accident during a night jump. (jump #36!)
SGM Joseph Santoro is as you note according to all I could locate on google.
Does not diminish the message for me.
It makes no difference what his experience WAS. The important thing is what his influence is NOW! If he can claim half as many followers as he says, he is an important player in this game - and this ain’t no game!