“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.
“”We did fall in love, I would say over the course of about a week,” Tyson told ABC News in an interview, recalling that Gant asked her to marry him within a few days of meeting each other in 2010. She laughed him off at first, but eventually he won her over.” *
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.
* Read more here from http://news.yahoo.com/top-green-beret-officer-forced-resign-over-affair-190327213–abc-news-topstories.html
Comments
Military doctrine for effectiveness doesn’t necessarily matter anymore. As much as we’d like to pretend everyone is a white knight, the reality is most of us have colorful/ do what it takes to survive backgrounds. People like to pretend that we aren’t human. If you kill or help kill people for a living, god help you have sex or drink or have problems just like anyone else does. So you get held to the standard of what is essentially being a machine, and yet all the while you still have all your human problems. In example, if I decide I want to leave, before my contract is up, I can go to jail. So literally if decided that I didn’t want to kill the “enemy”, I could go to jail. If you think you are doing something wrong and report it, it’s a direct line to jail, so of course these people are going to let out steam in some way shape or form, and for us the only options are “responsible drinking”, and “prohibited”sex.