The Marmot’s Hole

8 Comments

1. Brendon Carr
   Posted June 28, 2007 at 11:40 am | Permalink

   The documentary is broadcast from time to time here on your satellite television service, or the torrent is easily found on-line. It’s a very good production.

2. andru
   Posted June 28, 2007 at 12:20 pm | Permalink

   I agree with Brendon. I randomly saw this one night and decided to watch it. Probably the only real documentary on soldiers in the current war. It said they were allowed unprecedented access for ten days. It’s not political at all; it merely shows what they do and how they feel. I wish major US news outlets would show stuff like that.

3. Master_P
   Posted June 28, 2007 at 4:06 pm | Permalink

   SSG Chay wasn’t a Green Beret, he was a Crytologic Linguist(98G) attached to a team of Green Berets to provide intelligence support.

4. R. Elgin
   Posted June 28, 2007 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

   Andru, major news outlets in the U.S. nowadays are largely corporate mouthpieces and the corporations have political connections, thus we have fewer sources of unbiased information and shows like the aforementioned.

   Perhaps the American public needs a political “American Idol” show to engage their intellectappetites.

5. Brendon Carr
   Posted June 28, 2007 at 10:00 pm | Permalink

   SSG Chay wasn’t a Green Beret, he was a Crytologic Linguist(98G) attached to a team of Green Berets to provide intelligence support.

   Hospital corpsmen in the Fleet Marine Force aren’t Marines, either.

6. Master_P
   Posted June 28, 2007 at 11:43 pm | Permalink

   “Hospital corpsmen in the Fleet Marine Force aren’t Marines, either.”

   Nobody is saying that they are. The post and the blog that it links to identify SSG Chay as a green beret which is completely incorrect. Just pointing out an error.

   http://news.soc.mil/advisories.....31-03.html

7. WangKon936
   Posted June 29, 2007 at 12:03 am | Permalink

   Well, us ignorate civies don’t always know the intricacies of Army organization structures. I made an innocent, but wrong, assumption.

   However, could you be any less diplomatic in pointing it out?

8. random guy
   Posted July 3, 2007 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

   I don’t think Master_P had any intent on being ‘less diplomatic’ he was merely clarifying a point.

   Also a cryptologic linguist, does not ‘break codes on the fly.’ They are voice interceptors.

   Neither of these points take away from the service and life SSG Chay gave to his country.