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Officer on the boat said to move forward. I called Artie at his home in National City. Gary was a reluctant interview for a communications director, but at least he returned my call. Don Zub – symbol of and insult to Coronado, SEALs fight in Vietnam and in Coronado bars, Much of what comes up in the first half of the movie returns to determine its outcome, Email (Registration might get delayed for Yahoo inboxes). I think he was floating around with the Marines on the arg in the South China Sea. Jesse says this is one of his favorite movies. But Jesse made a comment during the interview that somewhat eased my doubts about his bona fides. We don’t wear skivvies.”. Say it’s good publicity.”. An officer had the top of his head taken off by a B-40 round or something.”, George paused and studied us through fierce black eyes set in a bronze face with the skin stretched so tight you could almost divine his skull. "Jesse in those days was known as Jim ‘the Dirty’ Janos and his brother was Jan ‘the Clean.’", Bucklew was rescued from forced retirement when President Kennedy championed unconventional warfare to counter communist guerrilla “wars of national liberation.”, Ed Gill, far left. I selected another name from the roster and talked with Gary “Bones” Bonnelli, who is now communications director for the San Diego Association of Governments. Graduation did not, however, authorize the trainee to call himself a SEAL or a UDT frogman. I am now 51 and have been in country 31 years working as a CEO in Washington D.C. I asked Ed if he’d heard of “the Body.”, “Yeah, I’ve seen him on TV. I’m not sure. Bucklew was a thrice-passed-over commander on the brink of forced retirement when, as a fresh-caught ensign, I reported aboard an obscure amphibious staff to work for him. He got the Silver Star for that op and a one-way ticket home. My first boss in the Navy was Phil Bucklew, the most famous Scout and Raider of them all. Looking down the roster, I saw Jesse and I had mutual acquaintances, one of whom was Artie Ruiz. If a trainee had loose skin from torn blisters on his hands, the instructor would rip the skin away from one hand and order the trainee to do the same to the other. The Mongols or Mescaleros or something. The difference in training reflected the difference in missions: SEALs in platoons of 12 to 14 men went looking for the VC and NVA in the swamps, paddies, and jungles of Vietnam; UDTs in platoons of 22 men conducted hydrographic recons in advance of actual or anticipated Marine amphibious landings. But lots of Navy Crosses, Silver and Bronze Stars, and Purple Hearts — none cheap. I knew many of them. Here’s how one woofer, Rad Miller Jr., describes his metamorphosis from frog to SEAL in Whattaya Mean I Can’t Kill ’Em? I’m single and don’t have any pressing plans for grad school. Anyone who’d only served in UDT before the Teams combined in 1983 couldn’t truthfully claim to have been a SEAL.”. I mean, I didn’t know Jim as well as his brother, Jan. Jan and I were running mates. Ed and the few remaining SEALs able to function after the VC ambushed their boat on the Vam Sat River cleared the kill zone and lived to fight another day. Frogmen from underwater demolition teams — but not SEALs — enjoyed six-month deployments to the PI during the Vietnam War and were so prized among the Po Town bargirls that the girls would sometimes “do it for love.” And the girls delighted in screaming “skivvie check!,” which meant every man jack and mate in the bar would have to drop his pants to verify if he was or was not of UDT. He didn’t believe much in showers, either. All the frogmen were volunteers and only the best needed to apply. You may have seen the romanticized version of UDTs at work in films such as The Frogmen, starring Richard Widmark. Sadly, I was one of the fans of him until later on when he was eventually proven to be all talk and no substance. Could probably have put his chit in at morning quarters and been standing tall on the SEAL grinder by afternoon quarters.”. Jane. Just a little loco.”. I gave Dick his paycheck every month, ran some interference for him with the Plumbers, and wrote the obligatory messages after he was hospitalized with an assfull of VC scrap metal. Don’t have to take care of a sick parakeet.”, “Hey, Bill, that’s great! I didn’t know him. What is the time signature of the song Atin Cu Pung Singsing? Jesse was probably like that when he entered training at 18. Jim was a great guy, but he didn’t care much about having a spiffy uniform or regulation haircut. “We inserted and hadn’t patrolled more than 100 yards from the boat before the VC started sniping at us. The best of the best?’ ” (p. 62), “One day [in boot camp] we attended a presentation by the Navy SEAL[s]…they showed us a film called The Men with Green Faces. “I knew him. Many frogs later had their own excellent adventures as SEALs, and those who survived love to woof about it for fun and profit. You have to earn the right to be a SEAL warrior.” (p. 81), But Jesse confuses things by making a single reference, among all the SEAL prattle, to his service in UDT 12: “[After BUD/S] we were sent to our teams. National City clerk’s job up for grabs in big money campaign. As for the rest of the platoon, they had altogether too much time to bleed. “Demi Moore,” he replied in that now-famous buzz-saw voice, “has great breasts!”. He didn’t pause: “5321 for UDT, 5326 for SEALs. I mean, maybe he’d only worked on a staff or been aboard a ship that once participated in an exercise with SEALs. Hell, nothing to be ashamed of about having been a frog. That’s what Jesse’s doing when he claims to have been a SEAL. Spent his entire time in Team 12. Although not a ’rassler, he’d earned the nickname “Gorgeous George.” He could have modeled for a cologne called Cock and Balls. I first saw Jesse “the Body” Ventura before the election on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. Every soul on board save one had been either killed or seriously wounded in an ambush. Here's something you might be interested in. Here’s a sampling: “[M]y brother, Jan,…had joined the Navy SEALs a few years earlier.…” (p. 60), “When [Navy recruiters] found out [I was] interested in joining the…SEALs, they zeroed in: ‘Don’t you want to be part of the most elite? “I may have put him through training, but not if he graduated in ’70. Those who completed BUD/S when Jesse was in training, were sent to either a SEAL or an underwater demolition team. “Means Navy enlisted classification. But I have to check with BUPERS and Captain Anderson at SEAL One to see if they’ll waive the six-month probationary period.”, “Why not get on the horn with Captain Bucklew too?”. He laughed and said: “You shittin’ me? “…I was attracted and impressed. UDTs had their genesis following the U.S. Marine invasion of Tarawa. I don’t mind another tour with SEALs. “…Then the clincher occurs that will change my life. After I graduated from training with class 38, I was ordered to UDT 11 as the operations officer. Well, I thought, Jesse certainly looks and sounds like many SEALs I’d known during my 16 years in the Teams. I thought many of my BUD/S instructors, who had never been to Nam and would never go, were muscle-bound “run-for-your-lifers.” I didn’t see them as the supermen Jesse extols in I Ain’t Got Time to Bleed. These units probably had more strategic impact than SEALs and UDTs combined in any war: they cleared Normandy beaches before the invasion and took nearly 80 percent casualties. Jesse graduated with BUD/S class 58 in December 1970, about a year after Stony and Kinnard churched those VC in the Nam Can Forest. The invasion beaches were ringed with underwater coral formations hidden from the Marines. I like his politics and I understand he was a SEAL. His father was a decorated WWII veteran, but Jesse says he never knew this until after his father had died. We did. But I never saw him lift weights or snarl at anyone. Now, I knew a guy in UDT 11 or 12 who was named Janos. “You are keeping the lights on — even if it’s just a ghost light — during this great intermission.”, There is basically one day every year where grownups get to act like little kids. Passed over in favor of midgets, but absolutely no bitterness or vanity in the man, just lots of charismatic humor. ", Dick Ray: "Anyone who’d only served in UDT before the Teams combined in 1983 couldn’t truthfully claim to have been a SEAL.”, Junkyard Dog. Those of us who recovered and continued to operate for the next seven months got some payback, but nothing could ever make up for what happened to us on the Vam Sat. Scouts and Raiders also attacked enemy coastal targets. We were hardly off the airplane at Tan Son Nhut when an officer who’d been in-country several months told me to jock up for a patrol. But they did wear massive Rolex diving watches with Tudor movements, just as Jesse wore during his interview. Well, maybe he served with both SEAL One and UDT 12. I got almost nothing out of UDT training that helped. Thanks, CDR Bill Salisbury, USN-Ret, for that little bit of information, now I have something to Facebook to my old friends. After reading the article The San Diego Reader did on Jesse Ventura,I don't believe I'll ever watch his show again,let alone buy one of his books.I really thought that the show raised the conscious level of the ordinary man but with Jesse having the ability to Lie about who he is(Navy Seal),what else is there?We are who we are and he should of all people want to open the book on himself and I'm not saying he's hiding anything disgusting but if your going to uncover the truth,you need to start with the truth.I also watched Pierce tear him up in an interview.In my personal opinion Jesse is no better than Liars he tracks on his entertainment show.If he can make a buck he'll tell whatever story he needs and that really lets me down.I need to believe in someone as a person before I can take anything they have to say as the truth.Thank you San Diego Reader for opening my eyes on Jesse (or whoever he is)It really teaches you to watch who you listen to.We just want the truth,that's all.

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