In-depth interview with Jim Smith, Delta Force member on Super 61 aka the first "Black Hawk Down"

[Snejdarek]

Interview – Jim Smith: Legally armed and properly trained populace assist the government with safety and stability

Jim Smith gained fame as a member of Delta Force who was aboard Super 61, the first helicopter that was shot down in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993. Jim then bravely defended the helicopter and his comrades from onslaught of enemy combatants, receiving a gunshot wound to the left shoulder from an AK47. Today, Jim works as firearms instructor through his company Spartan Tactical. He provides lectures both to US military and law enforcement as well as to interested civilians around the world, including periodical lectures in Slovakia.

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

My eldest nephew is a retired Delta Force operator. He spent a lot of the 1990's as a Special Forces member operating in Africa, including a lot of time in Somalia, before he was asked to join Delta and work in Afghanistan and Iraq through the Bush years. He told me several times that an armed civilian population was a much larger challenge to standing military than another standing army. Since retirement he has spent a lot of time as a private contractor training military people in both this side of the world and yours.

 

[roscoe]

My eldest nephew is a retired Delta Force operator. . . . He told me several times that an armed civilian population was a much larger challenge to standing military than another standing army. . .

If you read Black Hawk Down you will see why. It is a lot harder to know whom to kill in a civilian population, and you end up with enormous collateral damage. The book has some unpleasant stats on that particular problem that never made it into the movie.

 

[paulsj]

Interview – Jim Smith: Legally armed and properly trained populace assist the government with safety and stability

Jim Smith gained fame as a member of Delta Force who was aboard Super 61, the first helicopter that was shot down in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993. Jim then bravely defended the helicopter and his comrades from onslaught of enemy combatants, receiving a gunshot wound to the left shoulder from an AK47. Today, Jim works as firearms instructor through his company Spartan Tactical. He provides lectures both to US military and law enforcement as well as to interested civilians around the world, including periodical lectures in Slovakia.

In USA there are large well-trained private armies for hire to those that can afford them that will assist with safety & stability in time of crisis. That is why oligoarch billionaires don't want or need an armed population.

 

[Snejdarek]

Second part of the interview:

Firearms & Jim Smith, Delta Force operator from the first „Black Hawk Down“

 

[paulsj]

"....US Democratic Party is a Marxist organization...." Thanks, me learnd somethin.

Actually it is believed they follow "Neo-Marxist" philosopy of Antonio Gramsci.