looking for an article or some proof to this,
I remember hearing a few years back about a couple SF type guys (not under orders) that went thru a city from the bottom up and cleaned out a lot of drug dealers. They would either ‘dispatch’ or detain the guys and call the pd, leave or destroy the drugs and take off with the money…
not sure if theres any truth to this… if there isnt, then someone needs to start this up…
That sounds like a Tom Clancy novel almost.
This is not that, but this is a local legendary event that happened in Tacoma WA, Rangers versus Hilltop gangbangers:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2009/09/27/895048/ash-street-shootout-the-night.html
I once read an article in “High Times” Magazine while working UC 1990/91ish, about a small group of elite Navy men working over Humbolt County Ca weed growers.
The article’s author and Rag’s publishers were wanting to know why the police stood around and did nothing?.WTF? I was VERY amused myself.
D Williams
That is a great and embarrassing story all in one one. Rangers fire all those rounds and no bodies, embarrassing. But I love and respect the sentiment.
I just finished it and had the same impression. Good story that I’d never heard of.
Sign me up
I heard about it in 93 when I was in the 82nd as a private thought it was cool hear say! Never heard different. It was one of those type NCO stories that you looked up to as a “We take care of our own” type deal. But as I look back no one ever believed different. It is pretty close to our “urban legend”. None of us ever thought twice.
Now this comes up and Holy Fuck! Ya I heard about it. The NCOs went to other posts is what I was told then, but who knows.
Great story, but it appears to me that they weren’t actively trying to kill anyone, which demonstrates great restraint on there part.
Doesn’t National Guard SF sometimes assist State and Local law enforcement with drug raids? Of course, that’s very far from the vigilante story the original poster was cooking up.
I had a dream about this sort of thing happening