Why doesn't this happen more often? There are thousands of Ex-SOF dudes out there RIGHT NOW with the know-how and firepower to cause all sorts of illegal trouble; yet they're all depressed alcoholics instead of robbing banks or trying to overthrow the government?
Is becoming Cucked part of training?
>instead of robbing banks or trying to overthrow the government?
aaaa this post!
it glow so bright!
except this shit happens without any sort of glowie involvement.
this incident was just ex-SOF dudes making plans with other military dudes, including a Canadian soldier.
Because they’re mostly stable individuals who don’t need to resort to crime when they get out of the military.
Did you even watch the video or read about the incident? It was active duty Rangers. There was nothing “ex” about it.
I long for the complete destruction of the US government, and I’m not afraid of saying so on an Indonesian underwater basket weaving forum, you fricking coward.
>I long for the complete destruction of the US government
yeah and thats all you'll ever do, long for it. im not even egging you on. im just saying you're the same as all of us.
>I long for the complete destruction of the-ACK!
Ikr? I cant believe all the heckin wrongthink ITT!
t. glowie
Mr fed man might I interest you in asking your fellow CIA compatriots?
Once you learn how easy is it to be wiped tf out why would you bite the hand that feeds
I mean in your example they ended up going to jail for a decade-plus over $54k to be split five ways, so... I guess that's the reason it doesn't happen more often?
robbery is illegal and immoral
Don't Mexican cartels hire these guys sometimes?
yeah but they also try to limit it so they don't end up doing a second Los zetas and getting the whole continent on their ass.
Rangers are experts at DA raids using overwhelming firepower and manpower to destroy their target. That's only a tiny piece of the pie when making considerations for attempting to rob a hard target like a bank. They have no CAS, no arty, no ISR, and no country to back them up if they get caught. It's really not a surprise most SOF dudes don't get into this kind of shit because even with all their high speed training the odds are insurmountably stacked against them.
If there are any former CAG/SF/SOF types doing this shit and getting away with it, you won't hear about it because they certainly won't rob something as high profile as a bank. As good of a movie as Heat was, things like that just aren't feasible anymore.
>be me, 25 y/o armed male
>walking home mildly drunk from the bar
>midnight
>all the sudden
>streetlights go out
>six frickin spec ops dudes with nods and m4s run up on me
>frickin zip ties my hands and feet
>takes my wallet and runs off
>mfw
>At home watching TV
>Suddenly flashbangs
>Four dudes with Gucci AR's and skateboard helmets kick down my door and sweep the house
>take the TV and leave
>driving down the highway
>3 armored Ford Tahoes catch up to me
>they surround my car and block me in a V formation
>9 dudes dressed to blend with the civilian population with chest rigs and MP5SDs form a perimeter around me while one of them forces my car door open
>he grabs my car radio
>they all mount their vehicles and take off, all in under 1 minute
>mfw
>Ford Tahoe
>Ford
>Tahoe
Anon...
Yeah, I'm a moron, I was debating between Ford Raptor and Chevy Tahoe and my brain went both ways
>heat
>good movie
lmao
filtered and/or woman detected, opinion discarded
>they certainly won't rob something as high profile as a bank
That's why all the kino heists now are in the art world, but they're never violent. Only good armed robbery targets I can think of are criminals. Go after a drug dealer since they're cash rich, have no legal recourse, police won't care, jury wouldn't care if you're caught, and gangsters are all incompetent in a gunfight.
I guess the difficulty is the fact that a bank has a massive sign out the front saying "Bank" - how do you find an illegal stash of cash big enough worth getting into a gunfight over?
drug dealers
Gangster culture is all about advertising your wealth, shouldn't be hard to find some blinged out moron. Probably wouldn't even be a fight since most are too dumb to have guards.
>That's why all the kino heists now are in the art world, but they're never violent
Exactly
Why would ex-SoF risk it for such a shit payoff if they could make more money hopping from ship to ship at the horn of Africa/ straight of Malacca occasionaly shooting pirates?
they're still being paid by the government
Theres no money in robbing banks, physical heists are a thing of the past.
Most SOF selection processes include interviews that are specifically intended to filter anti-government types
>trying to overthrow the government?
Robbery is inherently stupid. Embezzlement is much easier to get away with.
There's no money in robbing modern banks. It's a boomer-era crime.
Army vet, prior protective services liason between security company and bank, and current banker here. This is correct. Most robberies amount to some schizoid homeless walking in and putting a note demanding the tellers drawer on the desk. They get less than 25k if they find a bank that even uses the old drawer system and not one that just dispenses for tellers. And that’s assuming they get both drawers. Most only get the primary drawer and that’s under 4k. Cameras are everywhere. Busier centers usually have security presence. Bait money is a thing and so much as touching it activates the alarm. Most successful theft from banks is by yanking an ATM which often have tracking devices inside these days and from employees force balancing their drawers over extended periods of time. The juice is not worth the squeeze. Two most recent robberies were a cracked out nig waving a gun around that didn’t make it out of the parking lot before the cops eating lunch in their patrol vehicle behind the bank (clearly visible to the dude while he pulled up) tazed and arrested him and a Mexican female that did the note routine with three different banks in the area in a couple of weeks and was eventually caught. She was a former employee of one of the banks and knew exactly which drawers and teller stations did and did not have bait. When she hit a different one she botched it and was captured within a couple hours. The most successful thefts I see in the industry are foreigners who cold call old people and tell them their account has been hacked so they have to withdraw their life savings and deposit it in a different bank into a specific account which they immediately empty and are never heard from again. Localgays will do the same thing with lower dollar amounts and gift cards convincing them to buy them from target or some shit and read off the number so they can redeem it online and buy stuff for themselves or pawn it for drug money.
Cash itself is rapidly diminishing. Obviously banks still have significant amounts by normal person standards but these days like 84-99.1% of transactions by value (depending on whether it's more rural or more urban) are digital. Which means any given branch can hold that much less cash. Individualized crime simply doesn't pay particularly well, you can make more with less risk legit. Or at least as part of an organization. If you've got serious military skills and background and want to continue to live dangerously you'd join a PMC outfit or at worst go work for some gray org working for a cartel in south america or something. Bank robbery would be a massive waste of value.
Anon i hate to be the one to tell you this but bank robbing is essentially not productive or financially viable anymore. It attracts way too much attention. Much like mercs for hire who go into Afghanistan to kill random brown people for $1,000,000, that era is flatout done and over with and exists in vidya and film and comics.
>overthrow the gov
Im sure the SOF guys arent dumb enough to think that their (lets be generous, platoon) force will survive a frontal attack on the White House... that has its own SOF team in conjunction with far more support, far more planning, and backup on such a fast speed dial you'd think the president was personally blackmailing every cop, swat team, and fed agent in a 20 mile radius with proof of them banging a thai ladyboy outside their marriage. Being surrounded and outgunned in a maze like the WH (or god forbid, the President gets in his frickoff bunker and you have to figure out how to get through a giant 100 ton door)
Unlike you, they're actual patriots.
because it's against the law moron.
They don't do it because they don't have shit like air support, artillery, bunch of other shit. Just make a YouTube channel and call it good.
why would you risk robbing a bank when you could make way more money while not getting shot with a podcast and a lifestyle brand?
Can we combine this with a tracer thread? I just want more tracer fire in my life
Bank robbing has sovl aka it's a dead meta. SOF are soulless ie they have an IQ over 100.
>The following morning, FBI agents will find the getaway car parked inside a fenced compound at Fort Lewis
kek what morons
Any of the ones who are smart enough to do this and get away with it can make more money sustainably for much lower risk as security, contractors, or consultants
Robbing the bank is not the hard part, it's not getting caught after
I think some of them do crime shit like probably max robbing drug dealers. Some of those guys are p fricking crazy.
Lead poisoning.
Maybe they're smart enough to get away with crimes, so you don't hear about it so much.
Really dumb question. They get out, they have pension, and they know how badly they could get fricked.
I'd like to see some start fricking up the cartels. So many problems could be solved throughout all of the americas.
They'd never do that. Too much real risk.
>start fricking up the cartels
Why would they go after American assets?
>American assets
Seething mejikano
Pretty interesting story. They fricked it up pretty bad though.
https://www.historylink.org/File/9189
Huh, when I was stationed at Ft. Lewis the version I was told was the only reason they were caught was because one of them had their leave denied and during an inspection his NCOs found the duffel bag of cash and reported it and if it wasn't for that they would've gotten away.
>Tries to shiv the federal prosecutor
>doesn't even hospitalize him
What a fricking loser.
It's the vaccines dude, after getting out of the military all those mandatory vaccines with hugh amounts of metal adjuvants just turn you into a depressed piece of shit with ptsd, i would not be suprised if a third of the problems with the military can be blamed on all the metal that is shot into your daily military men.
Imagine all the experiemental vaccines a soldier is forced to take per 4 years, without knowing all the side effects because you signed your life away, shit sucks dude.
>instead of robbing banks or trying to overthrow the government?
Looks like you weren't alive during the 80's 90's anon. lot's of fun stories of Army Rangers doing hood rat and insane criminal shit
if they wanted easy money by robbing people they'd make some meme NFT
its 2022, bank robbers use computers not guns
Real talk is that inflation and digital pay methods have reduced bank robbery payouts considerably.
>it's easy, just man up and rob banks
no matter what, you're risking lots of time or possibly your life in jail and even some loss of life.
SOF guys are just mentally resiliant dudes in good shape who are good enough at accomplishing their broad orders without constant oversight. They're not some incredibly based warrior kings. Dudes who played varsity sports at your high couldve become SOF if they wanted to. Stop over-stating their coolness. And no I'm not saying I'm cooler than them. They arent doing bank robberies and wild soldier of fortune shit because they want to eat ribs and frick around after they get out.
>obeying the law = being a cuck
Please return to /misc/ and never leave again.
>obeying the ~~*law*~~
Because they don't want to spend 10 years in the penitentiary or be 6ft underground and go in the next world so soon. People just want to live their life without much trouble.
There are some ex-SOF guys that go into crime. One example is becoming bodyguards or instructors for cartels. They also sometimes do sketchy "contractor" stuff like those dudes in Venezuela. Randy Weaver(RIP) was also ex-Green Beret - fun fact.
Used to live near Norfolk and ex-Navy seals would end up doing crazy dumb shit all the time. Unfortunately bad ass seemed to correlate with dumb ass and they seemed to always get caught.
There is no money in banks. It's all a bunch of 0 and 1.
The only decently heistable store are israeliteellers (actual israeliteelry makers not just stores) but you need some kind of network to fence the diamonds and gold.
diamonds yes, but gold and silver is too easy to melt down and sell.
they dont have their manager (superior officer) thinking for them and telling them to rob a bank. so all thoughts of making good on their oath to defend the nation against politicians/banking cartel go straight out the window. they all have low iq, and most of them are given a good ammount of money or pills to keep em docile.
Because they're not fricking stupid like you, Pavel