"Covert Action" on the Discovery Channel

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"Covert Action" on the Dicovery Channel

There is really great show that is coming on the Discovery Channel tonight at 8PM CST called "Covert Action". I have seen several episodes and they are all very good, if you get a chance to watch I recommend it.
 
Saw it. I wasn't impressed. Seems a little too over dramatized and a bit too lacking in credibility.

But if it's entertaining -- have fun. :D
 
I'm into SpecOps stuff as much as the next guy. But true or not the presentation of the material is too contrived to lend it credibility.

Some of these ops may have indeed happened, but for the general public to get wind of it so soon after the fact (especially where we are in the middle of "the war") right now seems a little ---- odd.

I'm just not buying that the Discovery Channel has all the details straight. It seems like certain aspects of things (like specific examples of evidence recovered) would not be released for public consumption so soon after the event occured unless it was to make someone look good. And I don't believe our Government would show its hand to make the other guys look competent, therefore the program is simply war propoganda. Slick and entertaining, but propoganda nonetheless which destroys Discovery Channel's credibility as a "science and news" broadcast entity.
 
I am far from an ex-high-speed-low-drag uber spec-ops guy, but I do know that a whole lot of what I see about the first gulf war back in 1991 on cable tv documentaries does not fit with what I saw with my own eyes while serving with 2nd Tank Bn back then. The military has a vested interest in disseminating disinformation.
 
The real good stuff they can't show you.

I'll tell you guys about it...some day :cool: ... maybe....

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How safe is your foodcourt?
 
Actually, I was being a bit facetious. I also thought everything happened just a little too conveniently in the show. A couple of examples:

- the two Middle Eastern CIA operatives were able to secure an ambulance, uniforms, blowfish sedative, and a tap into the hotel phone lines within a day? In the middle of Libya? As foreigners?
- the SEALs are able to find an abandoned sewer line that just happens to run below the bldg where the meeting is taking place, and not just the bldg, but the exact room where they are meeting?

It had an air of pseudo-fiction to it, as though you expected the SEAL team to strap on jet packs and zoom over the gulf.
 
Exactly. And some of the video used of the Navy Seals was recycled from a previous show Discovery did on the SEALS.

I just ---- no. Not into it.
 
'Covert Action"

The couple of shows I watched definitely looked like fiction...I didn't see any disclaimers at the beginning or end stating that 'these are true stories', or 'dramatizations', or 'fictitious'...has anyone?
Maybe we should go to discovery channel's website and sound off.
 
At the beginning of each show, text scrolling on the screen claims the programs are based on information provided by the U.S. government along with public news sources.

They are probably based on real incidents. I doubt many actual details are being revealed. Just because the program shows SEALs, I wouldn't assume all the actual operations were carried out by them -- some SOCOM units who may have been involved would not be mentioned in any info provided by the government.

There is probably a lot of "fill in the blanks" being done by the producers of the show. That doesn't take away from the fact that there are very highly trained units in our military who are doing amazing things. Constantly seeing the details of their actual exploits in the public media would be no comfort.
 
I watched one episode. The one with the SEALs in Libya. What hokum! :D I love how the sniper with the M14 made full auto noises while sniping. The gun fight was classic, the SEALs run into the middle of the room while firing from the hip. One SEAL was armed with the 1960s era Colt prototype M16 SAW.

Then at the end the CIA guy shoots the suicide bomber, who for some reasons just doesn't want to set his bomb off until he actually hugs the target. :p

I've seen more realistic gunfights on VIP. :D I was waiting for the terrorists to kung fu kick the SEALs guns out of their hands so that they could go hand to hand.

Yep, real high quality stuff there.
 
I got the same feeling. I have no doubt that such incidents occur, but with all the talk from the Dem candidates about how Iraq wasn't an imminent threat to the US, wouldn't White House officials be falling all over themselves to tell us about this op? I mean, the CIA supposedly listened in while an Iraqi intelligence officer met with operatives and planned terrorist attacks againt the west, including one inside the US! The meeting was then broken up by a US Spec Ops team, who killed all present and gathered the planning material for review.

If this were true and declassified enough to show up on Discovery, I would expect Fox News to have a field day!
 
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