Andy Stumpf

I think rangers are better than seals.

You're totally right.

Yeah, I agree with you as well.

Because who cares, right?

It really doesn't matter to me.

Now, having said that, I think for a good amount of time,

It was a little bit more of the Wild West and what you could get away with saying on the Internet because there probably were less people from the military or special operations world that were out there with a platform or a microphone or a megaphone, depending on how you'd want to describe it.

And you could kind of say what you wanted to and get away with it.

As more people are paying attention to that and the fact that the Internet lives forever and people can find things that you said not only yesterday but 10 years ago from yesterday –

you are going to be held to task for the things that you have said, especially if they aren't true.

And if the veteran community finds veterans that have a flirtatious relationship with the truth, what are they supposed to do with that?

I mean,

The veteran community, specifically special operations community, I don't know of any other community that's going to hold them accountable because they don't have the details, they don't have the knowledge, they don't have the experience, and they don't know the small things to listen for, which is oftentimes what raises the antenna up a little bit.

Somebody describes something in a particular way and you're like, huh, that's close, but that's not right.

That's not what happened.

That's not where that was.

That's not when that was.

That's not the unit that was there that did that.

Because, I mean, we're talking about communities of tens of thousands of people

But especially on large stuff or notable things, people kind of know the details and then it becomes a six degrees of Kevin Bacon.