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inspections and haircuts and uniform inspections and things like that. all that s going to do is lower morale and hurt recruiting. i mean, some of the guys were doing bad stuff, and there s i mean, there s no excuse for that. but instead of blasting it out to media, handle it internally. there s a way to do it, and it s a couple bad eggs that are making it look bad. i don t know the culture that s doing it, there s bad i stuff in virginia beach, overseas, maybe people got complacent because seal teams have so many successes pete: yeah. they brought an entire seal team home early. and they fired a command master chief who i went to training with. almost the 30-year mark, he s going to retire. what does this do to him personally? some couple e5s did something and it s going to yeah. but putting his name out there to the public oh, yeah, his name s out this. that guy s a legend.
inspections and haircuts and uniform inspections and things like that. all that s going to do is lower morale and hurt recruiting. i mean, some of the guys were doing bad stuff, and there s i mean, there s no excuse for that. but instead of blasting it out to media, handle it internally. there s a way to do it, and it s a couple bad eggs that are making it look bad. i don t know the culture that s doing it, there s bad i stuff in virginia beach, overseas, maybe people got complacent because seal teams have so many successes pete: yeah. they brought an entire seal team home early. and they fired a command master chief who i went to training with. almost the 30-year mark, he s going to retire. what does this do to him personally? some couple e5s did something and it s going to yeah. but putting his name out there to the public oh, yeah, his name s out this. that guy s a legend. you re seeing it across the
way. they don t want it. we live in a top-down world. we have a central government and everything projects from the top down, and for the first ten years in afghanistan that s what we tried to project. but afghanistan and most of these places where terrorists set up shop, they re bottom-up societies where tribal, clan culture is at the epicenter. if we try to undo that, minimalize that, the taliban, al-qaeda, they can just drive right through that and exploit that all day long. i think what we re going to have to do is understand that these places where the bad guys set up shop, we re going to have to be there for a long time, and we re going to have to work with the locals pete: what does be there mean? does that mean be on a base nearby so we can execute the kind of raids like we did against al-baghdadi? living in the villages? training their forces? when you guys look at your experience of all these tours, what works? what should we be doing, what should we not be doing? we need