My name is Hooah Dave and I Never Surrender
Posted by Special Forces on March 19th, 2010Name? Hooah Dave. You may chuckle at my wild caricature but fun as it is, I am a character that you will find on most Special Forces A detachments.
I love adrenaline – the kind you find breathhold diving on a Diver Propulsion Device (DPD) with a hot blond breathold diving and wavin’ old glory seated up to me on the back as we buzz by a few lees aggressive divers to “wake ‘em up!”
I get bored easy and have a constant need to entertain myself while at the same time at the same time honing my warrior skills. I always likes to push things to the extreme beyond the judgment of the norm but in my world of organized chaos and bedlam I he see these antics as challenges to be met and feel the success of accomplishing what to someone else would be deem just ” crazy.” I hate the politically correct. If you tell me “no”or “you can’t” I immediately wonder why and begin to plot. No means yes if I can get away with it. As crazy as everything seems to the average person n me , Hooah Dave its all calculated adventure either by risks or to get reactions never reckless as the act appears. My thinking is deep and complex but with all my emotion always driven by thought — instead of being driven by emotion. The proof of it is afte years of such calculatingly reckless behavior I am still alive. Safety never rules me and risk invites me…
General ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan director and creator of World War II OSS — whose operational groups , Jedburghs and operational swimmer groups were the fore runners of modern (CIA & USSSCOM operators including…) U.S. Special Forces; SEALs, Marine Corps special operations forces and Coast Guardsmen( yes wise guys read that Coast Guard..) special operations — once wrote a memo to the then ( and first communist POTUS) Franklin Delano Roosevelt. General Donovan’s promise was to form and lead a national secret service staffed of young officers who were”… calculatingly reckless ..with a disciplined daring …and trained for agressive action “. These men of total discretion General Donovan spoke of, are the modern incarnation of from whom I, and my brethren all hail…. Scoff at my image if you shall…
I am Shock and Aw…I am Hoaah Dave….THIS IS my Blog.
(Oorahs, Hooe-rahs, & Hooyahs) to you one and all!
Hooah, Dave
During the past few weeks, the world has gathered to watch top athletes from around the globe compete in the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Athletes from Team USA, who have been training their entire lives to take the stage to represent our country, have been doing an awesome job representing us.
Born: August 13, 1958
Time Magazine reports on the Afghan shepherd that rescued the lone surviving US Navy SEAL from Operation Redwing:
On October 29, 1963, Capt. “Rocky” Versace, 1Lt. “Nick” Rowe, and Sgt. Daniel Pitzer were accompanying a Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) company on an operation along a canal. The team left the camp at Tan Phu for the village of Le Coeur to roust a small enemy unit that was establishing a command post there. When they reached the village, they found the enemy gone, and pursued them, falling into an ambush at about 1000 hours. The fighting continued until 1800 hours, when reinforcements were sent in to relieve the company. During the fight, Versace, Pitzer and Rowe were all captured.
Medal of Honor Winner: Corporal Tibor “Ted” Rubin
“For extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United States; as chief of the Maritime Unit, Office of Strategic Services Detachment, United States Armed Forces, in the Middle East, from September 1943 to March 1944, Lieutenant Jack Taylor, USNR, personally commanded fourteen separate sorties to the Greek and Balkan enemy-occupied coasts. This activity was carried out despite intense enemy efforts to prevent any kind of coastal traffic whatsoever. Lieutenant Taylor, through clandestine operations, deserving of the highest commendation and careful planning and skillful navigation effected numerous evacuations of intelligence agents, doctors, nurses, and downed airmen. Tons of arms, ammunition, explosives, and other military supplies were delivered to Marshal Tito and other resistance forces through the efforts of Lieutenant Taylor. For three months, at all times surrounded by enemy forces, and on three occasions forced to flee from enemy searching parties, Lieutenant Taylor and his intelligence team operated in Central Albania and transmitted by clandestine radio important information regarding enemy troop movements, supply dumps, coastal fortifications, anti-aircraft installations and other military intelligence of great value to the Allied forces. Parachuting into enemy territory on the night of 13 October 1944, with a team of three Austrian deserter-volunteers, he had personally trained and briefed, he began a secret intelligence mission to Austria. Handicapped from the very start by failure to their plane to drop radio equipment, living in constant danger of capture, and the physical and mental strain on his men, the courage and energy of Lieutenant Taylor prevailed and throughout the remainder of October and November, the mission collected target intelligence of the highest value to the Allies. On 30 November, the eve of their departure for Italy, the party was captured by the Gestapo. Through four months of imprisonment in Vienna and one month in Mauthausen prison camp, he was subjected to the customary interrogation methods of the Gestapo. During his capture, Lieutenant Taylor injured his left arm seriously. With this handicap and also being forced to exist on starvation rations and work at hard labor, he resisted all attempts to force him to divulge security……the brilliant results of his operations have been an essential aid to the victory of Allied Arms.”
SPOKANE, Wash. — Vernon Baker had to wait more than 50 years to receive his Medal of Honor because of racism. Now the World War II veteran is battling the U.S. government for medical care for a brain tumor.
I was an assistant team leader with Team 1, 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion. It was April 7, 2004, and we were on a movement in Al Anbar province, going through a neighborhood that we knew was unfriendly toward Americans. They always had a lot of IED (improvised explosive device) attacks and ambushes in that neighborhood.