Ever meet a real, actual ex-SEAL who didn't go on to become an officer before retiring? If you have, you know they're the dumbest sociopaths you've ever met that look like they might have been athletic once.
My dad was MACVSOG and is still one of the smartest, scariest people you will meet.
Not in the bullshit Rambo way, but the quiet wolf don't fuck with me way.
The type you describe are always either really polite or weirdly in love with me as his daughter.
Either way, YUCK.
However, British SAS and Aussie SOG are absolutely awesome to be around.
They are like the cool older brothers who think of dangerous things to do when Mom isn't paying attention.
I knew one of the original members when the transition to SEAL in Vietnam happened. Grandpa looking dad with suspenders who was a CPA and sold insurance. He never talked about it. My brother knew him better and told me some 2nd hand stories when they were drinking.
Then, I know guys my age that were SEALs from 2004-2015 or so. Through them, I met more (there are so many now), and each was a cookie cutter of the other, sociopathic idiots with good hand eye coordination.
My elementary school computer teacher in like '91. He used big mac Styrofoam clamshells to make the wall into a big keyboard and walked around with a pool cue. Later they switched him to the middle school where he would sometimes dig his seal ring into the top of our heads
