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One thing I always notice, especially in podcasts like these, when they get on...when they bring on a "military expert" who has actually been in the military, they're always a military expert because they've been in the military. Not for any other reason. I notice this a lot, you'll actually notice when officers, former officers do this, they always start by stating their ranks. And non-officers tend to state how long they were actually in the army. They never state their expertise. Because they don't fucking have any. I mean, you never get this with any other podcast! "I can critique Gordon Ramsay's food, I was a line chef at Arby's! That's cheffing, that's the same thing!" Fuck! Just because you were in the army, does not make you an expert in war. I mean, if one of these people turned out to be a former commander of the Russian army, fuck, I'm all ears! I wanna hear what that person has to say. But I'm going to bet you 20 bucks that none of 'em are. In fact, I will put actual money, where's my fuckin' wallet, actual money, on the fucking table. Bet you twenty bucks, one of these fuckers is former Marines. Don't know which one, but I just know it's coming.
LazerPig, on the Gonzalo Lira roundtable. And he was right, too; interviewee Brian Berletic was a former Marine.

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