Author Tells U.S. Army He Made Up Stories Published in New Republic

FOXNews.com ^ | August 7, 2007 | By Michael Goldfarb

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Yeah, leave it to left-wing journalists to lie about our troops in a disgusting manner, heck, the left as a whole.

On that note, I also get irritated after reading up on shock troops that they have a negative connotation (like, for example, Russia being concerned about Obama’s shock troops in regards to the Black Panther party), thinking they’re somehow the same as the Sturmabteilung or the Black Panthers or something. They’re not the same, at all. The original usage of the term meant to refer specifically to soldiers on the front lines who were trained to specifically breach fortify enemy lines (that’s even what the name comes from: A calque from German where the actual full translation was closer to “push troopers” or “siege troopers.”). If anything, U.S. Marines or various Special Forces members are closer to the original definition of shock troops than the SA were, or the New Black Panthers for that matter. The latter two, if anything, are closer to political operatives who often engage in voter intimidation and/or street gangs, not even close to a standard military, let alone special forces. So yeah, I actually view the use of shock troops as being comparable to the SA as being an insult (if anything, the SA actually perverted the original term to essentially mean “political operative”).