The Unit (Again)

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OK, the show is a smidge on the slow side, but the last episode was pretty dern good. The one dude's wife carries CCW and "has a permit." The radio station manager doesn't like it so much, but just lets it go. Then he ends up using her gun to save her from a psycho rapist! :eek:

I never thought I'd see that on TV. What's this world coming to? OK, is there someone from THR writing the script :confused:, and how are you getting this past ABC's management?
 
We hijacked an NSA satellite and redirected the mind control waves into Hollywood, where aluminum-foil hats aren't yet in vogue.
 
Hi Guys,

If you're Unit fans, you should read Eric Haney's book Inside Delta Force. It details alot about the selection process and how mentally tough and disciplined these guys are. The last episode also came out of the book. He writes about a mission where he hunted down and killed a guerilla leader in Central America only to find out it was an ex-Green Beret who had washed out of the Delta selection process. He posits that the guy was actually working for the CIA.
 
Little historical factoid: Eric Haney was apparently one of the Delta guys on the DESERT ONE mission -- the debacle that was Pres. Carter's attempt to rescue the American hostages held in the embassy in Iran back in '80 ...
 
I'm not sure how accurate the show is, but I find it entertaining
and I have watched it almost every week since it started.

Walter
 
If you're Unit fans, you should read Eric Haney's book Inside Delta Force.
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http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBMS7AKVLE.html

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Eric Haney has made much out of his time as a member of Delta Force, America's clandestine counterterrorism outfit.

Way too much, according to former Delta Force officers and operators, who say Haney has embellished his résumé and fabricated other parts of his military career on his way to becoming an acclaimed author and a key contributor to the CBS television series "The Unit."

...One of the most compelling episodes involves a Nicaraguan-born Army Green Beret whom Haney befriended while both were trying out for Delta in the fall of 1978. Five years later, Haney wrote, he would encounter this U.S. soldier-turned-Sandinista commando on a mountaintop in Honduras and kill him with a rifle shot during an intense firefight.

Burruss said he has never read Haney's book and never will. He's certain, though, the episode did not occur.

"It didn't happen. Period," said Burruss, who became Delta's deputy commander in June 1983 and spent nine years with the supersecret organization.
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I'm watching it again. This week's story about one of the wives recruiting for "Blackthorne" caught my interest. This appears to be an obvious reference to Blackwater.

Last week I shot IDPA with a recent Blackwater graduate. This guy was in the Marines for 4 years and the Army for 4 years. He served two tours in Irag. Now he's going back working for Blackwater, and he's getting paid $3000/week.

At the time, I didn't ask him if he was recruited.
 
Just finished watching the Season 1 DVD set this past weekend - Talk about a visual treat for gun-lovers! Name your modern battle weapon; they end up shooting it in at least one episode...
 
I don't usually watch that show, but I did catch the last one with the recruiter lady.

What I did like was that Summer Glau guest starred in it. You know, River from FIREFLY?!:D :D :D

She's nice!
 
Addition to the cast

What I did like was that Summer Glau guest starred in it. You know, River from FIREFLY?!
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You'll be real happy to learn that she's been added to the cast as the girlfriend of the new Unit member.:D :D
 
The Unit/CBS/The unit's background...

The Unit is a CBS TV series not ABC, ;) . I do not watch the show much because of my work hours but I like the concept. The series is based on the non fiction book; Inside the Delta Force by a retired US Army SGT Major named Eric Haney. Haney wrote the book himself and that led to David Mamet, a well known Hollywood writer/producer to ask him to develop the TV series.

BTW: The "Delta Force" no longer exists. The DoD changed the program and it's now called CAG or Combat Applications Group. :D

Some retired US Army veterans gripe about Haney and The Unit complaining about how only SF(special forces) should be in Delta/CAG in the messages boards of www.militarypolice.com but I say Haney's book is worth reading.

Thanks for playing, ;)

Rusty
 
Rusty,

That's interesting. I didn't realize Detachment Delta was no more. Do you know if it's just a designation change, or if DoD changed the scope/operational parameters of the group?




Thanks,
B.
 
good show

Couple gripes about Tuesday nights episode ("Manhunt")

  • When the team is moving through the smugglers home in Mexico (or maybe the farmhouse on the other side of the border, can't remember) to clear it, all of them except SGM Blane have their 1911s with the hammer forward.

  • When the team approaches the area under the railroad bridge at an oblique angle, nobody bothered clearing the blind, shadowed area next to the bridge pier to their right.

Yeah, you probably don't want to watch movies with me :neener:
 
The "unit" seems seems to parrallel many of the stories told in Haney's book. I enjoyed reading it and I enjoy the show
 
This last episode was the worst one so far. So much rediculous material that it stood out.

Why didn't they park the car across the road and block the train since they had the chance to do this before the train got to the bridge?

How does right-wing barbie who is just a dupe for the clever "Raoul" rig the truck she supposedly just drove to the bridge to a vibration sensor just in case she lost her nerve with the handheld detonator?:scrutiny:

Nuc shipments are in casks that don't care about which direction you attack them from so the blather about attacking the weak underside annoyed me. :rolleyes:

The whole BS about the nature and extent of the contamination hazard that would result from the explosion.:banghead:
 
Yeah....and after all that drama about the vast amount of ammonium nitrate used in the bomb, their withdrawal distance was maybe 50 yards, and the resulting explosion was puny...I think the breaching charge they used on the smugglers front door was bigger.

Speaking of which, I like how Brown ran for cover after placing the breach charge, and Blane simply turned to the side all casually to hit the detonator, standing maybe 2 feet away...then the charge goes off and he looks mighty surprised :D
 
You guys are way past me, I am still stuck at the team using old diesel fuel from an old tractor to run an abandoned pontiac bonneville.
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While I'm not a tractor expert, the tractor they took the fuel from appeared to be a smaller tractor that very well could be run off of gas rather than diesel.

Take it for what it is, entertainment.
 
The show has the right cast, the right attitude, and right setting. It just needs some help with the writing to really take off.

The fact that a bunch of non-nutjob pro american military guys run around taking out BG's with 1911's and so forth is pretty cool. Pro 2A, pro CCW, family values, kill the terrorists dead. I don't expect to see many shows like it.

I hope they improve the writing. :p
 
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