For anyone with direct knowledge, what's up with current military culture regarding secrecy? I knew SF guys from the Vietnam era and they didn't talk with outsiders. In fact, I can't think of any prominent "tell all" books from SOF operators from before the 21st century. Now we have ex-SEALs doing book deals.
Navy SEALs reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a failed mission
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#23Not as bad as Bay of Pigs, but despicable nonetheless.
Kudos to the journalists who surfaced this.
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#24Upstream reporting: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/navy-seal-north-korea-...
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#26[deleting this -- now that the source for the article has been changed, my comment is not as relevant]
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#27It’s possible that Bolton was national security advisor at the time. The timing of this coverage might be to implicate him now.
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#28Yesterday's HN post on the story, with some discussion, but was flagged:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143759
[flagged] US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission (reuters.com)
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#29It’s possible that Bolton was national security advisor at the time. The timing of this coverage might be to implicate him now.
The article says it was in 'Early 2019' and he was NSA until September, so he was surely at the helm. But it also says Trump greenlit the mission, so I'm not sure how an advisor would be implicated in anything - unless your point is that the current admin thinks he might be the source for this story?
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#30>you woke up before dawn with your companions to go diving in the freezing cold ocean, in hopes of putting some mussels on your family's table. But suddenly, you die. A man you have never met and whose presence you did not know about has shot you with his rifle. His companions stab your lungs so that your body will sink to the bottom of the sea. Your family will likely never know what happened to you.
Man, fuck these people. Meanwhile hollywood will churn out another hundred films about how Captain America would never let something like this happen because murdering innocents is not a line America would ever cross.