Is this true about military special forces?

Question

Are shows like 'The Unit' ", Special ops force aka Soldiers of fortune" realistic. Or do they go overboard sometimes. I was int eh NAVY and our SEALS, SWCC, Minemen, divers, EOD.....etc lived lives NOTHING like the lives of the men from the Unit. Our men were either always training or deployed. They were seldom in the USA on a base having a good time waiting for orders.

In some episodes of the Unit they get special missions similar to what a CIA secret agent would get, Why is that? I understand how Rangers and Seals operate and I dont know of any who stay in the USA and only get called out when needed. Well maybe some do, I may be wrong.

But in the Unit they make it look like special forces people have a fun time while in the US while waiting for a mission. When they get the mission, they fly out, complete the mission and then return back to the US to chill out. Sometimes their missions last 1-2 days, is life really that easy for special forces?
Is it really like this? Or is special forces always deployed in the middle east. Most SEALS I know are located in the middle east, I dont know of any who just chill out on base waiting for a mission. I would expect to see that in a 007 movie

Another thing that bothers me is how they dress and the things they do. Is it realistic? Can they buy whatever they want like James Bond such as expensive hotel rooms and things like that? Also most special forces are somewhat uniformed with lots of firepower. On these shows you often see them wearing casual clothing, tricking women, renting hotel rooms next to bad guys, making their own decisions on the spot and having tiny guns and not automatic weapons.......doesn't this remind you of James bond?...lol

Its just so confusing that special forces would do the same exact the CIA gets paid to do.

So ca someone please explain special forces to me, and tell me how they are different from CIA spies and MI5 agents.
Because if they are the same then I am wasting my time getting my degree so I could join the CIA or FBI...lol

Answer 1

Relax its just television, Nothing like real life

Answer 2

Here's a tip: Operators (and most successful people in general for that matter) are resourceful enough to find easily-attainable information themselves. The whole point of special operations forces is to unconventionally solve problems that conventional forces are either unequipped for, or flat out incapable of doing. How in the world is someone like you going to be an asset to those units? BTW, "Special Forces" are in the Army. The Marines have the Marine Special Operations Regiment (MSOR). You can't even apply to join the MSOR, or any other element of MARSOC without first doing your time in the regular forces.

Answer 3

This is FICTION. It means it is not true; they are just making it up. So no, nothing you see there has any relationship to reality. Special forces go on military missions, not the fictitious black ops crap you see on TV.



It's no different than NCIS, where MAYBE 5% of the cases they work on are actually cases that the real NCIS would actually have jurisdiction over. The only current military-based TV series with even a modicum of reality to it is Army Wives.

Answer 4

Well if you watch the show you would see the "unit" was a black ops off the books force. Yes, we do have such operators. Mostly they are those like Delta or contractors. Money for such ops is off budget so non standard weapons and tools may be used so it not look like Us military did this. So yes while it is mostly Tv hookey. There is a mix of truth to it.

Answer 5

actually they tone it down for the show these guys in the special forces are the elite of the what ? oh ya army ha,ah,ha, c'mon man you know SEALS right well who is the bad *** mofo's that trained for 26 weeks before being designated EOD , Diver or SEAL hell no thiese are some Hollywood renditions of life in the unit ha,ha,ah, show is a joke bro

Good luck with CIA or FBI best to ya

And:



HAPPY VETERANS DAY !



Me, USN 1977-83 NASNI, CVW-9, USS CONSTELLATION CV-64

Answer 6

Im sorry but any real reply to this answer would violate op-sec.

Answer 7

was "the hurtlocker" anything like what an actual eod tech does?



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