Try looking up a nerd convention from 20+ years ago, and compare it today. Those guys actually looked like normal people, compared to the horrid golems of today.
Well, to be specific, they look like normal people by today's standards. People who look normal today, would have been considered nerds 20+ years ago.
desert storm dorks insist up and down that these guys weren't delta. sometimes business-casual-operator.jpg is IDed as greg gonthier, though i've never looked for solid confirmation.
>What's the reason they were always out of uniform.
Operators get a lot of freedom about that and they're a bodyguard detail so blending in in civilian contexts could be part of the job. They might be doing convoys through city streets and shit.
>It's not like they were contractors.
We don't know for sure that they're not.
He was originally posted here for suspected stolen valor because of the weird mix of medals he has, turns out he has just had a weird career that involved a lot of things he can't talk about.
>He had a career doing cool shit then he retired and got to keep doing cool shit.
If you cut your teeth on jungle warfare and then went to mountain and desert warfare and then retired, you'd have some eclectic interests, hence why he does scuba and hiking and skiing.
I'm impressed he's still got knees for skiing though.
does anyone have the wargame ALB after action screen where it shows one delta guy with the name vining having taken out an entire page worth of PACT shit
Why do people keep going on about this guy? The only claim to fame is "this tier one operator demoman looks like a middle school social studies teacher."
>The only claim to fame is "this tier one operator demoman looks like a middle school social studies teacher."
He was a founding member of Delta and had something to do with specops including EODs as standard but otherwise, it's basically because he's like you said, a tier one operator who looks like a nerd.
>it doesn't hurt that he's by all accounts a very lovely and respectful person
>The only claim to fame is "this tier one operator demoman looks like a middle school social studies teacher."
He was a founding member of Delta and had something to do with specops including EODs as standard but otherwise, it's basically because he's like you said, a tier one operator who looks like a nerd.
>it doesn't hurt that he's by all accounts a very lovely and respectful person
He's what happens when a >150 IQ person doesn't go into the sciences.
Link it fag
YES SIR THANK YOU SIR
Its actually pretty good so far, hes pretty good in an interview.
I thought guys with glasses couldn't be operators. Guy I know couldn't join the RCMP because of his use of glasses.
all warfare is based (on deception and/or seduction)
>the guy in the Schwarzkopf photo isn't mike vining, but a friend of his
the fuck, did all operators look like that in the 80s/early 90s?
Try looking up a nerd convention from 20+ years ago, and compare it today. Those guys actually looked like normal people, compared to the horrid golems of today.
Well, to be specific, they look like normal people by today's standards. People who look normal today, would have been considered nerds 20+ years ago.
>those boots
I mean... I guess?
If you're going to be walking around HQ guarding the boss, from an attack that has no possibility of ever coming...may as well wear comfortable shoes.
>at least my feet don't hurt
desert storm dorks insist up and down that these guys weren't delta. sometimes business-casual-operator.jpg is IDed as greg gonthier, though i've never looked for solid confirmation.
That pic doesn't look like Vinning at all but
certainly does. I think one is and one isn't. They're certainly not the same guy.
Vinning specifically commented on this photo and says it's not him but his friend, he was doing some glow ops with rangers elsewhere
What's the reason they were always out of uniform. It's not like they were contractors.
>What's the reason they were always out of uniform.
Operators get a lot of freedom about that and they're a bodyguard detail so blending in in civilian contexts could be part of the job. They might be doing convoys through city streets and shit.
>It's not like they were contractors.
We don't know for sure that they're not.
Pap did an interview with him many, many years ago. Let me see if I still have it here.
Nope sure don't. Someone else post it.
He still has the same goofy smile omfg I love him
Holy shit I used to live down the street from where this was taken.
So what exactly did this guy do? Why is he well known?
He's known for looking like a regular guy except he has a long career in delta force.
He was originally posted here for suspected stolen valor because of the weird mix of medals he has, turns out he has just had a weird career that involved a lot of things he can't talk about.
I love the "accountant with 1000-yard stare" archetype. Can't wait to watch this interview later
a few minutes in and it's already great, he called the GBU-28 the "Saddamizer" completely deadpan
fun fact about mike vining is that his wife is a travel writer and photographer so you can find him in a bunch of random stock photos.
He had a career doing cool shit then he retired and got to keep doing cool shit.
total chad.
>He had a career doing cool shit then he retired and got to keep doing cool shit.
If you cut your teeth on jungle warfare and then went to mountain and desert warfare and then retired, you'd have some eclectic interests, hence why he does scuba and hiking and skiing.
I'm impressed he's still got knees for skiing though.
does anyone have the wargame ALB after action screen where it shows one delta guy with the name vining having taken out an entire page worth of PACT shit
Why do people keep going on about this guy? The only claim to fame is "this tier one operator demoman looks like a middle school social studies teacher."
>The only claim to fame is "this tier one operator demoman looks like a middle school social studies teacher."
He was a founding member of Delta and had something to do with specops including EODs as standard but otherwise, it's basically because he's like you said, a tier one operator who looks like a nerd.
>it doesn't hurt that he's by all accounts a very lovely and respectful person
He's what happens when a >150 IQ person doesn't go into the sciences.
> >150 IQ
Is his IQ actually known?
He's clearly not an idiot and probably clever but he didn't strike me as having genius level intelligence.