He's still training in classes, so I would assume he's still good physically/mentally beyond his speech issues. If I had four months left, I'd prolly take risks too.
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James Yeager may have ALS
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He's still training in classes, so I would assume he's still good physically/mentally beyond his speech issues. If I had four months left, I'd prolly take risks too.
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Sure if I was single too. Dude has a family, spend the time with them instead of fighting for the UKRs oligarchs that will be back in power after this shit is over.
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yep, seriously, if i were younger and had mil training and was battle tested i would go also. but overweight, middle aged guys that only put on their plate carrier once...when they tried it for fit the day they bought it, just don't cut it. i'm not talking about yeager, but the wannabe mercenaries every gun club owns now.
Conflicts like UKR/Russia are COD hard ONs. Perfect example of urban warfare that a lot of people haven’t seen in a larger scale. Everyone is getting hot and bothered about about it and wants a piece. Iraq / Afghanistan where boring by traditional means if you know what I am saying.
Watched just a few minutes while taking a coffee break. Some good comments. One was regarding preference for rifle issued, "Does it work? Is it zeroed?" Also called the Ukraine situation literally Red Dawn as far as the Russian occupiers go. I'll watch more later, but he almost seems like a different person- less arrogant BS and more focus on the essentials?
Grendizer138
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Here’s a pretty good podcast with Yeager where he gets into his time in the sand box and how Tactical Response started.
Really worth listening to.
View: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3RjlNtliAsVMdCkMbVrDYv?si=Wb3LGMr1QVeolxBJkzCk9w
View: https://youtu.be/azzNKU7yIqM
Really worth listening to.
View: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3RjlNtliAsVMdCkMbVrDYv?si=Wb3LGMr1QVeolxBJkzCk9w
View: https://youtu.be/azzNKU7yIqM
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ALS is an absolutely brutal disease, I've seen the progression first hand, start to finish.
Not a huge Yeager fan, but his first video gutted me.
It effects everyone differently and I hope he gets to stay physically functional for a long long time and gets to maximize his time with family and loved ones.
If he gets to Ukraine, I wish him clear sights and crisp triggers. Godspeed.
Not a huge Yeager fan, but his first video gutted me.
It effects everyone differently and I hope he gets to stay physically functional for a long long time and gets to maximize his time with family and loved ones.
If he gets to Ukraine, I wish him clear sights and crisp triggers. Godspeed.
“his time in the sand box” LOL, okay. The dude is a clown. And his only experience in “the sandbox” is driving VIPs around and poorly executing protection fundamentals when he was engaged.
He’s never successfully done:
* movement and maneuver
* engaging an enemy
* conducting raids
* finding cover that allows effective suppression of an enemy
* or even finding cover that allows maintaining visual of the enemy
* keeping a vehicle in drive when stopped in traffic
ALS sucks. I don’t wish it on him. But he is downright a hazard to Ukrainians there and he should be spending time with family.
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Whatevs. As little as I care about your opinion of him, he cares even less.
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Cult of personality man. Yaeger is an OG youtube personality that brought a lot of people around to guns, mindset, and training. Hero's are infallible.
I have watched his videos over the years, some of them are very good, some of them make my eyes roll into the back of my head so hard I was afraid they wouldn't come back.
What I don't understand is the desire to go stick your nose in someone else's fight, especially when our fight is probably right around the corner.
I can say those things based on knowing PSD job functions in Iraq, analyzing AARs, video, interviews, mapping locations of him, his teammates, and the threats, etc.
And I formed my opinion while actually conducting infantry operations in Iraq, performing the PSD role, and analyzing what went wrong with his element to learn from it. Everyone makes mistakes, but his were particularly bad and caused by the fact that he did not have the professional education nor experience necessary for the position he was in. He never should have applied for that job, but that’s on him.
He has limited real world experience (LE or PSD) and no military experience. And he has yet to show that he can handle a war zone.
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My Uncle, and one of my friends died from ALS,when it starts on your tongue like it did with my Uncle
it won't be long before he has a hard time swallowing,then breathing.God what a cruel disease.
it won't be long before he has a hard time swallowing,then breathing.God what a cruel disease.
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Grendizer138
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So no?
Were the witnesses in the truck with him? Do they KNOW what happened or do they just think they do?
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I get it, dude. I really don’t want to put myself in a position of defending him, I wasn’t there either. All I’m saying is he’s pretty candid about his experiences contracting in the ME, including his f*** ups. The podcast I linked is worth a listen - at least for anyone without pre-held notions.
Thanks for your service.
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Some in the convoy and were in the engagement, some who worked with him. Not all relevant to the ambush, but all relevant to his work in Iraq.
That’s the thing, he’s probably not a net positive asset. He’s a liability. “Be an asset to your team” is absolutely vital in military operations.
There’s been an influx of tactical gurus online. Engaging multiple targets at the range with pinpoint accuracy is extremely different from irl battlefield engagement regardless of terrain. It just doesn’t translate at all into actual warfare. It has its place in small scale local events for local …..enter whatever and that’s about it.
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I think he might be in Key West.
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Sad for the guy. Happy he can still do as he wants though
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Man......have only seen 1 or 2 of this guy's videos years ago. He doesn't even sound recognizable. Even if it's not ALS, most of the alternatives aren't much better.
Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. Hope he enjoys these next few years as best he can.
Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. Hope he enjoys these next few years as best he can.
ProGun
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Sounds like bulbar ALS. My maternal grandfather died of this when I was little. Terrible way to go, my grandmother and mom talked about his suffering quite a bit. My memories of him are largely of him being in a wheelchair and trying to talk.
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