Jesse Ventura says the Navy SEALs have changed in a major way 

That was the laugh I needed. 😅

Yep he sure is

it wasnt stateside...if he fought Predator in South Dakota it would have been in his book.

very funny. You got time to duck?

😂😂😂😂😂

@merch marine You're an idiot

@merch marine please make an effort and examine the facts of the case before making any careless remark like this. I'm sure you would want others to do the same when and if your reputation and name has been slandered like Mr. Ventura had to endure, because of some Liar who had the backing of big media spin folk. your friend RLTW

They didn't have a Seal team in WW 2, or the Korean war.

@@charlesburgos4711 The WWII Frogman, also known as Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT), began in WWII. You can find their history at the SEAL Museum website. The “L” for land began during the Vietnam War. My Grandfather, a Gunner’s Mate, also dove looking for bombs on the hull of his ship during the Korean War.

I would totally understand why he was not incline to talk about it. From outside soldiers of every rank could look like heroes, and maybe they are, but on their side, they have to deal with the brutality of war which the end result is repulsiveness against that subject. Sometimes I feel so glad to have been born in this time in a western society.

@Tom yawn...... another brilliant keyboard warrior

Your family needs to see his service records to be 100% certain.

Get his DD-214

update his DD-214 was on display with his medals and all at my sisterinlaws house where she held the wake ...i have no need to question it

​@@Grizz270then get lost

Hahaha legit

* followed by: Gary R Smith, Harry Constance, Dick Couch, Greg McPartlin, James Watson, Michael Walsh, Thomas H. Keith, Darryl Young, Rad Miller Jr, Barry Enoch....and many more hahahah

Yup. Ventura is full of shit, as always.

lol marines have a lot of books all unit of armed forces has their own books. It's just the books of seals are more interesting than the others so it's more popular than the other

@David Bowman maybe, but he’s entitled to have that viewpoint. If he actually killed 1/4 of the people he says he killed in his books, he’d be a certifiable mass murderer. Lol

David Cooper Barely anybody has ever heard of MARSOC and Force Recon.

David Cooper you don't hear about marine or airforce spec ops either

lol marsoc is Marine Force Recon, delta is the green berets.

No. The real quiet professionals of today are the CIA's Special Activities Division. Specifically the Special Operations Group.

Yeah. Spec Ops guys talk, even in if low numbers, they talk. I've never heard any ex-CIA paramilitary guys talk.

I looked it up. The typical SEAL gets $54,000 a year.

@@apostleintriumph1758 that’s literally peanuts compared to active duty overseas

Ya, I was just pointing out Ventura was a little off on the salary guess. When I looked up the SEAL earnings, I also saw a SEAL (higher ranking), can earn $220,000 a year if they have been in the Navy for 20 years.

@@apostleintriumph1758 damn. That’s good but that’s a long tike to earn that. Still they’re underpaid grossly by how skilled they are and how dangerous their missions are as well

@@apostleintriumph1758 That's only if they are a Senior Officer and that kind of pay would probably be Admiral pay. An E9 SEAL isn't making anywhere near that. Pay grades are the same throughout all of the services. As an E1 in 2002 I made like $12000 / year. As an E7 in 2014 I was up to around $55,000 / year with BAH. In Afghanistan I got family sep pay and hazardous duty pay which was a nice little chunk.

Seals and all military men have been writting books about there tours on duty for ever, his opening statement is total bullshit. I could show you 20 books written by seals that are about there deployment in vietnam..... this guys a compulsive liar. And clearly stoned out of his mind

Or, he worked for MWR passing out basketballs!

Kenny Stabler told girls at the bar that he was a crop duster from Alabama. That was the 60s. Simpler times.

@@andymcgram7643 Does that make it right?

Yeah and glad ventura wasn't what made it good.

Only place Ventura deployed

The predator killed Epstein....

Ain't got to watch

anybody not seen the first predator movie? get out of your cave and get you one of those new fangled DVD players.

@That drummer from all those different bands thats the most Arnold thing to do ever

Hes a liar. Witnesses said Kyle knocked him down in the bar Not to mention after kyle was murdered he still kept the lawsuit against kyles fanily. A real hero huh.

@@letsgobrandon6281 who?

@@letsgobrandon6281 all those witnesses who were silent during the lawsuit?

he's the opposite of intelligent, r e t a r d. he's a 911 troofer

LOL

Boy

I think you mean 🤔”Service”

@@bluethedev3544 since you have gaming in your username i'm assuming you don't know what a cervix is

Been in a lot of hairy sticky situations.....

You're exactly right!!!!

Well he got into acting and professional wrestling and then Governor of Minnesota so kinda hard to not talk about for various reasons

@@HesGay very hypocrite, indeed.

@@pasta8709 Jesse or his critics? I have no feeling either way but I can say for myself I've never heard Jesse speak about any operations he was involved in and I think he's brave for exposing the chicken hawk politicians that wanna use our own boys to fight wars for corporations

Wuh? He sued a dead SEAL. Jesse is an opportunist, pandering to those that will enrich him.

Lol my exact thoughts when I came across him on here last week.

To bad Jesse was never a seal. He was under water demo. What a joke

no difference in his day. he could've been assigned to seal or udt after bud/s. i dont think he saw much combat, but that probably wasn't his choice, either

You should search youtube, some really great videos of him and much of things he say actually makes perfect sense. Some wild theories though but he is very down to earth

Joshua i think you havent served yourself, only civies make comparisons like that. Watch anyway ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KeO1DUtnKsE.html

It's a $36,000, not 90k.

@@jackrose5077 that's the initial? Because zone b SRB was 90k.

@@evanbrockway9847 Haha, I'm not sure how it goes by zone, but for me it's 36k with a 2k bonus for doing really well on the Navy basic fitness test and another 2k for doing really well on the PST. so technically it's 40k. However, when it comes to that 36k, I have no idea when I'm going to see that money or how I'm going to see that money.

@@jackrose5077 wtf, we didn't get 2k for doing shit.. I joined 10 years ago go though, different Navy now I guess.

@@evanbrockway9847 Yeah totally different, I was gonna kill it on those fitness tests regardless of the money. I felt a little guilty for having those options.

Has anyone thought about how Jesse could be lying? How Jesse figured he could self promote HIMSELF off of the events that had taken place? That Jesse thought he could get basically free public attention and money? Or, are you just going to ignore the basic possibilities?

@@swampfox9633 he's definitely right. Why aren't CAG operators lining up movie and book deals? SEALs are actors in training.

@@benningsniper9516 I do not believe he is right. And nor do I even think you're correct. "SEALs are actors in training.", what kind of bull shit is that? Now I do not know if you're some former Military personnel. But SEALs wouldn't be going out there lying and trying to promote themself to the public. And why CAG Operators aren't lining up to make those movies and book deals, that's just how they [Army] works about it. If someone goes through hard shit in a war/life as a CAG operator, SEALs, Marine Raiders, or whoever the hell, it doesn't matter. Because one person in the Navy SEALs made a book don't mean jack shit.

@@swampfox9633 no, but ten, twenty is a trend. Baby SEALs are either actors or designing workout equipment.

Bullshit. The only “great lessons” are that they should keep their mouths shut rather than give away inside information and endanger their fellow SEALS. Your statement is ignorant and just plain dumb.

R&R, is where the real war stories took place! Everyone began and ended in X, or multiples there of!

HERO? Him? What for...just serving.? All he;s done is run around talking about him being a SEAL for the last 40 years. Yet he's going to slander the community because of a few money minded folks got out and wrote books. Friggin President Obama outed these folks. They didn't do it themselves. Everyone who wrote a book got a personna Non Gratis notice from the units and won't be welcomed back ever...Just like Marcinko did. And Cat these folks have been at war for 17 years now....Many from the very beginning and are still here and doing God's work. Not like your Vietnam 12 month tours and done. How bout you talk about your generation of draftee, pot smoking, one tour surviving veterans, and I will talk about all the SF Teams and Seal Teams that I know who have 8 to 15 tours under their belt and still ain't out screaming poor pitiful me, we GOT PTSD.

The bastards of batan is my heroes

With a SEAL brother of the same time period, I can speak to their integrity and silence but today’s Battle is in keeping the Truth at the Forefront

Thank you for your service.

You haven't done shit then what the hell is it that you have to keep "quiet?"

Not about his deployment. Of course Jesse was a SEAL but he never talks about his deployment since all the people in the SEAL team he was in (Reserve SEAL Team 1) didn't.

Jessie Brother was UDT as well...before Jessie....

The proportions of the ammount of seals that talked about it from Jesse's era and today are massive. I'm sure there were guys that did the same back in his day but not nearly as many as today. I think that's the point he was trying to make.

@@colinmackay92 Still feels weird though how he made up a whole sentence about them being "silent professionals" back in the days when they clearly wasnt. Yes, they were pros and silent while in combat (btw Jesse Ventura never got into combat, nor completed the extra 26 weeks to become a navy seal) but we are talking about making of books and movies of the navy seals, and the military as a whole. I also dont see a problem about the increasing numbers of military movies and books. Increasing numbers of positive acts are never bad. Sure enough there are things that needs to be classified and shall remain so but such things are not portrayed in movies nor books. "Jesse frequently references his military service in public, and a lawyer from San Diego criticized him for faking his claims of being a SEAL. Although Ventura never completed the extra 26 weeks of training to become a SEAL, the UDTs were broken apart and combined with the SEAL teams after Vietnam." "Ventura never saw combat during Vietnam although he did receive the Vietnam Service Medal." www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/famous-veteran-jesse-ventura.html

FKUC ANY garbage gov. to pay their highly trained special forces $30G's ,when one can probably collect almost as much from fulltime welfare!

@@llbunnyll1734 Hate to break it, UDT and SEALS are one in the same..

@@jetdr udt and navy seals are not the same thing if thats what youre trying to aim for

@@jon8004 that’s all war is lol

@@jon8004 Those on the frontline against ISIS definitely should.

@@AI-ml1sl He never he said he wanted to be one, jackass.

@@jon8004 tell that to contractors

@@AI-ml1sl oh look mr tough guy you are an operator yourself?

😂😂

No ones quiet nowadays. About anything. Everything is out in the open, this is the sad, sad era of the brag.

Talk about dynaflos or the McGuire Sisters!

@@nunisthathigh4825 the military forces(navy, air, army) have become a god damn instagram fest in my country. its sad to see, has no place in the military if you ask me.

he was never a seal, he was udt

He admitted it in 2002.

yup, he's a phony. never was a seal.

​@@Don-rl1smUDT in Subic Bay Philippines

No, you don’t get to lose respect for them just because you were in the Navy as a Chef. 😂

That license plate was probably a fake/phony SEAL. Senior Chief Don Shipley outed a guy a while back with a SEAL-related Virginia vanity plate.

Exactly what I said

He was, do some research.

Michael Parsons he wasn’t

Michael Parsons James George Janos(his real name, what a loser) served from 1969 to 1976 and passed BUD/S in 1970 but never saw combat, he was a UDT guy that quit the military and made a fake name Jesse Ventura and did fake wrestling WWE like a loser, this guy just talked about how he doesn’t talk about being a seal when you can go look it up, he’s the most famous US SEAL and hasn’t even been deployed, that should piss you off! He is more famous than Marcus luttrele or mike Murphy or Matt axelson or Danny deitz or anybody else on that helicopter who gave their lives for this county, if you don’t know who I just talked about or what operation red wings is you have absolutely no reason to say shit you don’t know defending Jesse Janos or as a matter of fact any SEAL because you are uneducated. Jesse uses his “military status” to get elected into office and because it makes him feel cool

@@dalt1020 You seem a little butt hurt that your fake hero (Chris Kyle) got caught in yet another lie and his estate was rightly found guilty. You're completely clueless, kiddo.

Average is correct, but more than likely they’re getting way more because of deployment pay, hazard pay, etc. They deserve way more though

@@shaunmai111 yeah, you've got football players earning millions whilst these guys are literally dying for their country and getting peanuts for what they do.

Guessing that $30K annually was Vietnam era pay scale. Assuming that was 1974 (wild guess), that would equal $160,000 today. Typical Jesse, half facts and omissions.

@David Erickson I was basing my numbers on an inflation calculator. Straight up discussion stating “I only made X dollars in Vietnam” is deceptive and meaningless. I was in the Army from ‘75-82, so I recall starting as an E-2 in basic making $349/ month, which worked out to about $255/ take home. I read somewhere else someone claiming that he and Jesse went thru UDT school in 1974. US supposedly quit sending combat troops to Nam in ‘73. However I enlisted into NG in Feb ‘75 on delayed entry. My guard unit received orders that we would be going to Nam the end of Nov 75 as base security troops. Last chopper left the embassy April 30,1975. There are a lot of stories that Jesse never actually went to Nam, and others that he was stationed in the Phillipines after school. He has a long history of fuzzy facts and bs claims.

@David Erickson I just looked at the numbers from the other direction. If Jesse was getting $30K annually, that would mean he was getting $2500/month. I call straight up BS! Jesse was not some Lt Col with 18 years time in service then. Even with all of the extra pay bumps for hazardous duty, etc. that is BS. Seems like I recall hazardous duty pay while I was infantry was $55/month. So more garbage and BS from Jesse.

@Channing White I was about 1.5 ft away from Ventura and the fact I had to look down a significant amount 1975 confirmed

@Channing White my 5'2" mother had a son 6'4" Ventura may have been 6' but seemed almost a full head shorter than I

@Channing White I am honest friend. If Ventura was 6'1" or taller, I never would have had such a lasting memory of it. The difference was enough to make me turn to my friend Dave and smirk about the difference. That was when Ventura growled at me. Also right there was the flamboyant Adrian Adonis

@Channing White yeah, I lost interest over 40 years ago. Did see Andre the giant. Liked the Crusher

Funny thing was the SEAL community went the "John Wayne Green Beret" route before the Vietnam Warstarted. The famous WW2 flick "The Frogmen" came out in 1950 and inspired many Vietnam era SEALs.The Navy put out a recruiting film called "The Men with Green Faces" around 1970, that was all about SEAL exploits in Vietnam. Ventura has to have heard of it. In fact, it was Ventura's good buddy Dick Marchinko, who started the whole cottage industry of former frogs making money off telling war stories when he talked about forming SEAL Team Six and its training. His contemporary, Delta Founder Charles Beckwith, also wrote a tell all book on the formation,organization, selection, training and first combat mission deployment of Delta in 1983.

The DOD has to vet all books written by former service people. So as much as people say "They shouldn't publicize this" , if The US Navy didn't want "Mark Owen" publishing a book on the OBL raid, it doesn't get published. The Armed Forces love things like this as a recruiting tool.

To what details do you refer?

Entitledprick - He's a politician, what do you expect?

Rey T He’s a statesman

I did not enlist in the navy seals to get rich...I would kill to defend the constitution. ( Patriot )...I would not kill for money !(mercenary).I was paid for my service just like all military are.Full time job.(Patriot..!)

Humble man....in which I truly honor!!! A true hero to me!!! God bless him!!!

I saw an interview with a former seal and he said part of the problem with the TV shows and the movies nowadays is that they start to show too much of the tactics used so we’re basically telling the bad guys what to expect. It causes the seal team staff to constantly revise their tactics.

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He was UDT, if I recall.

And are you sad about that ?

He was UDT. There was almost no difference back when he was in. Even Don Shipley has stated that he sees Venturas service as a SEAL as legit.

They are the same essentially yes. But, he didn’t deploy in any form of a combat role so he has no stories. That’s the point. He’s an unopened Gi Joe.

True. He explained it well.and the way the Military treat Special Operators, and service people of all branches, more power to them if they can make money from their experiences after their service is over.

he has to say he is a navy seal everytime, so u morons can listen

he's a fraud. was never a seal

He was stationed in the Phillipines and never saw combat, like he endlessly claimed. He admitted it in 2002.

@@Thunderchild-gz4gc the way he talks, to me it comes across as if he did and just doesn't talk about it

​@@sck_outlawhe's full of it.

Smart trash*

GuerrillaFPS don’t kill for money

Sell your soul?

GuerrillaFPS well you would have to be in the military first anyway sooo

Says the guy who thinks navy seals make 30 k a year. Might wanna do a lil research first...lol

That's funny!

Social media, basically

r e t a r d

Philadelphia Spectrum

Bob Backlund was a wrestling machine.

Subic Bay was a CIA training base. All the opium grown by the CIA in Laos was turned into heroin in Subic Bay. When were you there?

Nice humble bragging about lifting 300 lbs douchebag.

Some One no not really..

His brother was though right?

Well he NEVER went to Combat, so there's that. He got the Vietnam Sevice Medal for sitting on a Ship in the North China Sea with a UDT Team that never got off the boat.

​@@joeschmoe9154 They did to get off the boat, nearly constantly. How else would they play beach volleyball?

None of that is true. The 24th is the elite of the air force. Seals are the elite of the navy. Rangers/berets are the elite of the army. Delta is the elite of all those 3 elite combined. And I'm sure theres more elite then that, but there top secret.

@@andymcgram7643 best of luck in learning how to spell, r e t a r d

Wtf are you even talking about? He was a SEAL before he became a former wrestler (as well as a former Governor) which made him famous. Are you saying that someone being a former famous star in wrestling, as well as a former movie star, and then turning towards politics, being a former Minnesota Governor (etc.), (ALL of this) while also being a former SEAL, all of a sudden somehow makes one prejudice against other SEALs? Jesse's SEAL career is ENTIRELY different from the other things that he's accomplished. Rhetorical question, but was your head already up your own ass when that realization just passed you by?

Typical Jesse, he speaks like a politician. Half facts and omissions. And yet so many think that he is something special. LOL!

Gainey Gainey it’s funny cuz if you look at his political campaign for governor of Minnesota it’s all about him being a navy seal. Guys a hypocrite who never saw combat.

pfdrtom “ranger lead the way” to where? I don’t think rangers where ever the first in any war or battle just bunch of pussies

@@Jacob-nj5hg So.. another SEAL fan boy here.

Jacob Anderson stfu 😂😂

@@Jacob-nj5hg d-day, grenada, panama, Afghanistan sound familiar?

I have never heard a Army Ranger run his mouth! Thanks men!

He did earn the right to do so. Even Don Shipley concedes that he did the push-ups, he swam in the cold every other day, got wet and sandy, did the log PT, i don't know if he dealt with ol Misery, I'd think he did as most SEAL trainees do at least once, he endured the no sleep of Hell Week . Like it or not, he earned the Trident of his day, they didnt have eagles on them back then.

@@chrismc410 yet he has claimed over and over he saw combat in Vietnam, he lied over and over. That's a pretty big deal

@@g1llifer he says Agent Orange exposure caused blood clots in his lungs which ended his wrestling career but he wasn't in Vietnam. Steroids did that. Also he claimed filming Predator have him flashbacks. Never in action. He insisted on filming that scene with Richard Chaves, a genuine humble Vietnam veteran.

Exactly , he fails to see the irony in his statement. It's like rock 'stars' who have been all over the world, who live in their mansions(Bono...Clooney... cough cough) telling the rest of us to save the planet - well screw them, they made it by exploiting others so what gives them a higher moral position to now expect the rest of us not to do the same.

Julian Rain True, but he isnt making movies about his service for money. And he has other skills (ie he's a fckn governor of a state)

Julian Rain Usually after you retire or stop doing something you once loved an what made you you take pride in it an have no shame in telling people. you just never do while you are still active

Are you guys deaf or something? He said he didn't talk about his deployment and what he did in combat missions not about him being a SEAL. This is how a man gets defamed and worse buried. By morons who misinterprets what was said.

Julian Rain ..and he has no deployment stories to talk about because he never went anywhere dangerous!!..don't get me wrong I have utmost respect for the guy but like most seals bullshitting comes second nature!!

Mark S i know its crazy how incensistnt IT is

1 silver star, 4 bronze stars with Valor , 160 confirmed kills numerous unit medals . Loved and respected by a Nation. You're the douche haha

+Jon Burrows In his book, Kyle claims to have earned 2 silver stars and 5 broze stars with Valor. He LIED, 1 silver and 3 bronze is all he got. Lying about your medal count by increasing it without earning it is considered stolen valor and is dishonorable.

@@jonburrows7874 And yet he lied so much (Jessie Ventura case).

Nah. Stolen valor has been a thing for a long time.

@Merch Marine Really... Thanks for information. Best regards.

@Merch Marine Wow no respect for a SEAL ? sounds like a commie & TRAITOR ! ! don't worry they come for you in your bed.. Creeping in the night... God bless all S.O.F...

@Merch Marine @merch marine... 👍TRUE.

Swcc

Mark Blasen we will see what Don Shipley has to say about you

You are pathetic.

Plenty of bootlickers weren't in the military like yourself.