Scott Helvenston.
Murdered, his body burned to bits then cut up into pieces then hung from a bridge.
Courtesy of Islam
Posted on 04/02/2004 6:13:23 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
Edited on 07/14/2004 1:00:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
He helped prepare actress Demi Moore for her role as the first woman to join the Navy SEALs in "G.I. Jane," and appeared on two reality series: "Man vs. Beast" and "Combat Missions."
But after years out of the service, friends said they weren't surprised to learn the former SEAL had left the comfort of his life in California behind him and headed for Iraq.
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I remember him from the USA Network reality show Combat Missions. The show was a wargame competition pitting teams of experts in different scenarios. He was one of, and arguably the most fit, among an assembly of Seal, SWAT, SF, Marine and other Elite operators. It was an exciting show and this man was very impressive.
It is an outrage he and the others were killed guarding food convoys for these people.
I hope our response is commensurate with what was done to these men. I doubt if it will be as savage, for in no case are these loathsome animals our teachers. At the same time we should still be very severe.
Scott Helvenston.
Murdered, his body burned to bits then cut up into pieces then hung from a bridge.
Courtesy of Islam
"Fallujah" should be a name remembered by Americans for a long time. And Fallujah should be made to cry a river of tears, not a minute later, but NOW.
My prayers are for Scott and his family.
"That's what, in a time of need, true American warriors like Scott would do," "Combat Missions" producer Mark Burnett said Thursday.
No disrespect, but Mr. Helvenston went to Iraq not as a American solider or warrior but as a very well paid employee for Blackwater Security. Pay is up to $250,000 year (much of it can be tax free) plus expenses for security personnel with SOF experience.
Come on now, don't you know it's the Religion of Peace(TM)?
It is doubly approprite as FALLUJAH was a Bathist stronghold and the people who did this were probably members or beneficiaries of the Saddam regieme. There will certainly be less innocent or friendly Iraqis there than in most of the country.
Sounds good to me. They had their chance.
Only the first $80K is tax free. And you have to do 330 days overseas to get the exemption.
I don’t have cable or satellite TV, but at one time he had some sort of fitness videos. They were The Navy SEAL Workout series or something like that.
My recollection is that he was a SEAL but got busted up pretty bad. IIRC, his main chute failed to deploy and he had to use the secondary but hit real hard and busted up his legs bad. (Somebody will correct if it’s wrong – but I’m almost positive that was him.) Healed up and worked through it though. At some point he was an Olympic pentathlete too, but not sure whether that was before or after… I’m thinking it was afterwards.
Hadn’t thought of him in years…
Some of the news stories have mantioned that Fallujah has been cordoned-off. Don't know if that's true but it would seem the logical thing to do, at least to secure all the roads into and out of the city.
Strange that there hasn't been a single news report on preps since yesterday. The silence is deafening.
We need men like them too badly.
Yes, when I was fighting in Afghanistan I was an American soldier and got paid my Uncle Sam. Now that I am back on the block, I am just a civilain not matter what I do or who pays me...
According to this Budget Update the cost of a soldier in Iraq costs $14,900 a month or $178,800 a year per Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Soldiers deployed are not available to all necessary tasks in country and at any level are not cheap to the taxpayer. You could not use the typical security guard to do these tasks anyway. The premium pay is a secondary issue to the availability of troops and Helvenston or any of the others were worth every cent.
You did nothing out of the ordinary. Almost all of us here at FR did our thing also, so dont hide behind what you did.
Out of respect you should have said nothing.
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