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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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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81 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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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
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To: Tallguy

Exactly...


86 posted on 06/25/2014 3:42:11 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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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)
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To: nickcarraway

So.... now we fire troops for getting laid?

Too bad he wasn’t a queer - nobody’d dare say a word.


88 posted on 06/25/2014 4:55:19 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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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.


89 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.)
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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)
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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.)
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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)
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To: Romulus

A modified ak-47.


93 posted on 06/25/2014 5:32:41 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Romulus

“Anyone know what weapon that is he’s 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.


94 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)
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To: Jack Hammer

Read before commenting.


95 posted on 06/25/2014 6:13:15 PM PDT by Romulus
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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.)
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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.


97 posted on 06/25/2014 6:58:07 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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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...)
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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...)
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To: Vendome

...really an ad for a book.

&&&
Yeppers.


100 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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