new information on the use of crossbow

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Judge it for yourself. I have seen people claiming to be Spec Ops on TV all the time, including prominent politicians. Various National TV programs invited ex-Navy SEALs as advisers all the time, like Top Shot on History channel. And this guy, Machowicz, has been around for years and been on national TV all the time. He has always claimed to be a sniper wigh the Navy SEALs. He would have been called out long ago if he's a fake.

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Your verification for this claim is that none called him out? Sorry, but fake SEALs are one of the most widespread phenomena. As soon as a lie is widespread enough, people stop believing it is a lie and try to adjust truth that must be a lie.

Here you can start verifying your "SEAL" and all other kinds of "special forces".

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Your verification for this claim is that none called him out? Sorry, but fake SEALs are one of the most widespread phenomena. As soon as a lie is widespread enough, people stop believing it is a lie and try to adjust truth that must be a lie.

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Here you can start verifying your "SEAL" and all other kinds of "special forces".

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If there is a website dedicated to exposing fake SEALs and "my guy" has not been called out yet after nearly a decade appearing on TV, I would tend to believe he is the real deal. If you think he's a fake, present your evidence. Show me who and when suggested he is not a SEAL. Someone like him would definitely garner attention since he appears on national TV all the time. I've shown mine indicating he was a SEAL. Now show me yours.

Mark Bissonnette is in trouble for writing about the killing of bin Laden. However, he was never charged of exposing his own identity as an ex-SEAL. So it seems to be ok to tell people you used to be a Navy SEAL. He was with Team 6, the most secret of all the SEAL teams. If it was ok for him to let people know about his SEAL identity, it should definitely be ok for members of less secret teams to log public.



"George Little, spokesman for Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, told reporters this week: “When it comes to sensitive special operations missions, such as the operation that took down Osama bin Laden, it is important that those who are involved in such operations take care to protect sensitive and classified information.

“And if I had been part of the raid team on the ground and I had decided to write a book about it, it wouldn’t have been a tough decision for me to submit the book for prepublication review. That is common sense. It’s a no-brainer. And it did not happen.."

This section clearly shows that it is even OK for an ex-SEAL to write a book about being a SEAL. You just can't describe the specifics of missions and have to submit the book for a review.




Another ex-SEAL goes public, this time attacking the POTUS.

Now your turn to expose Machowicz...

Another expert in the show who described the Qin crossbow in detail was Mike Loades. If the History channel trusts him along with other well respected college professors to talk about ancient weapons, I don't see why we should doubt him.

I find that Kurt makes some really BS claims. Europe doesn't use bows? The English longbow was a myth? Tell that to the French in Agincourt.

The gastraphetes existed only through the words of Heron of Alexandria. There have been no pictures or archeological finds attesting to its existence.



Further, Heron was describing this in the first century AD, nearly 400 years after the times of Alexander the Great. So claiming that the ancient Macedonian army used gastraphetes as a main weapon is pretty suspect.

The armed contest he mentioned was between Tang China and Muslim Arabs, some 1000 years after Qin and Alexander, so it's ludicrous to use that to measure the relative effectiveness of Qin and ancient Macedonian weapons. Not to mention, the Tang army lost because it was betrayed by an ally and subsequently outnumbered.