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Top Green Beret Officer Forced to Resign Over Affair With WaPo Reporter
ABC News ^
| Jun 24, 2014
| JAMES GORDON MEEK, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and BRIAN ROSS
Posted on 06/25/2014 12:38:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A legendary Special Forces commander was quietly forced to leave the U.S. Army after he admitted to a love affair with a Washington Post war correspondent, who quit her job to secretly live with him for almost a year in one of the most dangerous combat outposts in Afghanistan.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command never publicly disclosed that highly-decorated Green Beret Major Jim Gant was relieved of command at the end of a harrowing 22 months in combat in March 2012.
His commanders charged in confidential files that he had "indulged in a self-created fantasy world" of booze, pain pills and sex in a tribal village deep in Taliban and al Qaeda country with his "wife," journalist Ann Scott Tyson.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; annscotttyson; apocalypsenow; colonelkurtz; greenberet; jimgant; socom; specops
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To: Romulus
The betrayal was of their respective spouses and children. Breathtaking selfishness on their part, and characteristic special pleading by many on this thread. Good riddance.
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posted on
06/25/2014 2:52:31 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
To: LeoWindhorse
Your post makes sense, but, unfortunately, we shall never see that sort of policy.
82
posted on
06/25/2014 2:58:34 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
To: latina4dubya
“They took part of my soul. Yeah, they did.”
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Yes, and I suppose, Mr. Grant, that your 4 children and the 4 children of the tramp you shacked up with could say the same.
83
posted on
06/25/2014 3:00:41 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
To: Romulus
They’re my family, my family,” Gant said....
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And the devil take his real family that he abandoned is his attitude, I suppose.
84
posted on
06/25/2014 3:02:55 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
To: nickcarraway
“I think you missed the part that said the Army was not revealing this. It just came out now.”
I made a reference to other articles that I have seen published on DailyMailUK.com about other soldiers.
No misses, but thank you.
85
posted on
06/25/2014 3:38:01 PM PDT
by
Noamie
To: Tallguy
86
posted on
06/25/2014 3:42:11 PM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
To: Bigg Red
I got the impression they were single when this happened...
87
posted on
06/25/2014 3:47:21 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: nickcarraway
So.... now we fire troops for getting laid?
Too bad he wasn’t a queer - nobody’d dare say a word.
To: Vendome
I went to the source article. No, they were not single. Each was married and each had 4 children. They are total bums.
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posted on
06/25/2014 5:11:58 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
To: Tallguy
Heart of Darkness - part II
90
posted on
06/25/2014 5:16:06 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Hey IRS - those receipts you wanted? The dog ate 'em. -New Name:"Washington Thinskins" -FR. coloeo)
To: nickcarraway
It will make a great movie.
91
posted on
06/25/2014 5:22:46 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Bigg Red
missed that part
great article.
Cept Ithink it’s really an ad for a book.
92
posted on
06/25/2014 5:27:38 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Romulus
93
posted on
06/25/2014 5:32:41 PM PDT
by
Bulwyf
To: Romulus
“Anyone know what weapon that is hes carrying?”
I took a look at it and judging from the front sight, it looks a lot like an AK-47. Understandable if he is living with, working closely with, Afgan’s.
The magazine looks to be a 30 round for 7.62x39.
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posted on
06/25/2014 5:40:51 PM PDT
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
To: Jack Hammer
95
posted on
06/25/2014 6:13:15 PM PDT
by
Romulus
To: LeoWindhorse
Gotta love this part (photo caption):
Backing: General David Petraeus is seen here with Major Jim Gant in Mangwel on a visit in 2011. The former general endorsed Gant's unconventional methods.
"unconventional methods"
Now *there's* a euphemism. Going native = "All In".
96
posted on
06/25/2014 6:32:29 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: Romulus
I HAVE read.
Unconventional war, unconventional guy.
I don’t expect the men who protect the nation to be Boy Scouts.
Evidently, some do expect it.
To: Bigg Red
Yes, and I suppose, Mr. Grant, that your 4 children and the 4 children of the tramp you shacked up with could say the same. ooh... very good point...
98
posted on
06/25/2014 7:08:02 PM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: Paine in the Neck
hahahahdahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
99
posted on
06/25/2014 7:08:54 PM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: Vendome
...really an ad for a book.
&&&
Yeppers.
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posted on
06/25/2014 7:12:05 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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