Shortly after Ventura was elected governor, because of all the questions it was getting, Naval Special Warfare released a statement that he was a SEAL. They even invited him as a guest speaker to a BUD/S graduation ceremony.
Around the same time, Larry Bailey, head of the group that used to out fake SEALs, released a statement saying he was a SEAL.
He was, until the Chris Kyle situation, a regular at SEAL reunions and was even given an award for representing the SEAL community at one.
If the SEALs say he was a SEAL, that’s what he was.
Larry Bailey certainly would know.
Larry Bailey certainly would know.
Ah, 20+ posts of drivel, until the truth emerges. Thank you for that. I would like to use an analogy I heard once, about flashlights and cockroaches, but I can't remember exactly Rush said, so I'll let it go. Good job.
Greetings GrootheWanderer:
That’s a somewhat incorrect assumption. Jesse Venture is not a SeAL, he’s only an SeAL organization member. It’s mostly due to an association membership eligibility technicality and has little to do with actually being a Special Operator. I can empathize with Chris Kyle’s position on this.
Jesse Ventura holds a SeAL association membership card simply because he completed BUD/S training. While Jesse’s accomplishment of completing special warfare school is admirable; he chose to remain a storesweeper cruising safely offshore VietNam instead of becoming a Special Operator.
SeAL association eligibility requirements were relatively loosely written as not to exclude their Plank Owner US Navy Special Operators; which inadvertently gave Jesse back door eligibility.
For example, a few of my combat veteran US Coast Guard Port Security Unit Shipmates, Plank Owners, are technically ineligible to wear our coveted transverse seahorses devise. While these Shipmates went to war with me, they did not have the benefit of completing a specific combat warfare school beforehand, which oddly renders them ineligible to wear the devise. (As a Master Chief, I’ve actually outed an ineligible non-combat veteran servicemember who actually attempted to get away with wearing this devise upon their uniform!)
Anyway, Jesse’s brother Jan Janos is a Special Operator, aka SeAL. The SeAL group that outs fake SeALs posted a two-part youtube interview with Jan that fully explains the eligibility technicality of Jesse.
Cheers,
OLA