Author Topic: Spec Ops unit attacked by ninja with a katana (Read 1140 times)

MillCreek · « **on:** October 01, 2021, 06:03:54 PM »

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/01/1042487729/a-ninja-with-a-sword-assailed-a-u-s-army-special-operations-unit-in-california?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&fbclid=IwAR2diNxdwItwgLmjr8l7BnAm-1npXt88l6sJ_Hzxn2ANlQSX7vePmYhZtWM

This was the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, which is famous for their helicopter operations. Do you think they were just being nice in not shooting the ninja, or do they not have any weapons while training in CONUS?

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #1 on:** October 01, 2021, 06:12:42 PM »

Meth is a hell of a drug.

Pb · « **Reply #2 on:** October 01, 2021, 06:13:24 PM »

So the Spec Ops guys ran away from the Ninja?

I am disappointed...

MechAg94 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 01, 2021, 07:28:14 PM »

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The incident report quickly drew attention after it was posted on Instagram. It describes how a staff sergeant was smoking a late-night cigarette near an airport hangar when "an unknown person wearing full ninja garb" approached him with a question.

"Do you know who I am?" the man asked. The sergeant said he did not. "Do you know where my family is?" the man asked. When the sergeant said he did not know, "the person in ninja garb began to slash" at him with a katana sword, the report states, adding that the sergeant's leg and phone were struck.

Sounds like he either didn't know how to use the sword or it was dull.

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Police officers located the ninja suspect on a nearby road. But the man "refused to follow commands and brandished the sword at deputies," the sheriff's office said. Projectile rounds were used "but were ineffective," it added. Instead, the man ran. When deputies used a Taser on him, he dropped the sword, and deputies were able to take him into custody. He was identified as Gino Rivera, 35.

I can't believe he didn't win with this ninja sword and skills.

Fly320s · « **Reply #4 on:** October 01, 2021, 09:20:12 PM »

Quote from: Pb on October 01, 2021, 06:13:24 PM

So the Spec Ops guys ran away from the Ninja?

I am disappointed...

Not really spec-ops. Those are aviation guys. Pilots, crew chiefs, gunners, mechanics, etc., not Rangers or Special Forces.

Millcreek, I doubt they had any weapons with them. Peacetime training mission, so they didn't have a need to be armed. Probably some risk manager Major decided that would be too dangerous.

MillCreek · « **Reply #5 on:** October 01, 2021, 09:38:06 PM »

I have read books about them. They are considered Special Forces in helicopters. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/160th_Special_Operations_Aviation_Regiment_(Airborne)

230RN · « **Reply #6 on:** October 01, 2021, 09:55:59 PM »

"Probably some risk manager Major decided that would be too dangerous."

Ow.

"Sounds like he either didn't know how to use the sword or it was dull."

Most of the swords I've bought from the local knife/tobacco shop were not sharpened to a zero thickness edge, but maybe a 0.020" or less little flat edge. They were ground to look sharp but actually weren't. Could do damage with a full-strength stroke, but weren't the legendary razor sharp.

HeroHog · « **Reply #7 on:** October 01, 2021, 10:00:15 PM »

Look how chewed-up that cheap-ass blade is!

Andiron · « **Reply #8 on:** October 01, 2021, 10:17:18 PM »

Quote from: Fly320s on October 01, 2021, 09:20:12 PM

Millcreek, I doubt they had any weapons with them. Peacetime training mission, so they didn't have a need to be armed. Probably some risk manager Major decided that would be too dangerous.

I no *expletive deleted*it guarded a conex with a handful of Javelins, a bunch of AT4s, misc 40mm rnds and frags with an empty M9 one time. Run of the mill training op. Risk managers are idiots.

If someone rocked up and said hand over the goods, I'd have said "all yours". If TPTB aren't going to take this seriously neither am I.

230RN · « **Reply #9 on:** October 01, 2021, 10:25:15 PM »

HeroHog, I couldn't bring up that picture. It was a link to a duckduckgo search list of URLs about sharpness.

RocketMan · « **Reply #10 on:** October 01, 2021, 10:32:38 PM »

So the ninja attached himself to a special ops group? I thought special ops groups were more selective than that.

Jim147 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 01, 2021, 10:40:41 PM »

That super glue is a thing.

HankB · « **Reply #12 on:** October 02, 2021, 12:23:41 AM »

Quote from: Andiron on October 01, 2021, 10:17:18 PM

I no *expletive deleted*it guarded a conex with a handful of Javelins, a bunch of AT4s, misc 40mm rnds and frags with an empty M9 one time. Run of the mill training op. Risk managers are idiots.

If someone rocked up and said hand over the goods, I'd have said "all yours". If TPTB aren't going to take this seriously neither am I.

If I were detailed to guard something while unarmed . . .

. . . I'd run like hell at the first sign of trouble.

HeroHog · « **Reply #13 on:** October 02, 2021, 03:29:44 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on October 01, 2021, 10:25:15 PM

HeroHog, I couldn't bring up that picture. It was a link to a duckduckgo search list of URLs about sharpness.

It's ln the article link posted in the OP. Sorry.

230RN · « **Reply #14 on:** October 02, 2021, 06:10:12 AM »

^ Oh, OK, I kind of expected that to be a pic in and of itself.

Quote from: HankB on October 02, 2021, 12:23:41 AM

If I were detailed to guard something while unarmed . . . . . . I'd run like hell at the first sign of trouble.

One time, between real jobs, I worked as a night guard for a large security outfit. I'll never forget at the training, the instructor mentioned that all you were was a walking pair of eyes, a walking pair of ears, and an index finger.

I got it right away, but someone raised his hand and asked what the index finger was for...

"To call the police," the instructor said matter of factly, everybody laughed, and he went on about how we weren't cops and not to get directly involved in incidents except as witnesses.

I'll never forget that one.

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HankB · « **Reply #15 on:** October 02, 2021, 10:17:38 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on October 02, 2021, 06:10:12 AM

. . . One time, between real jobs, I worked as a night guard for a large security outfit. I'll never forget at the training, the instructor mentioned that all you were was a walking pair of eyes, a walking pair of ears, and an index finger.

I got it right away, but someone raised his hand and asked what the index finger was for...

"To call the police," the instructor said matter of factly, everybody laughed, and he went on about how we weren't cops and not to get directly involved in incidents except as witnesses . . .

For those of us old enough to remember 9/11, think back to the days immediately after - with lots of worries about more impending attacks, there was a (very) brief time in which some utilities and other critical businesses were discussing guarding their facilities with volunteers.

In at least one case, a group of citizens had gathered to find out what they could do to help, and a spokesman (IIRC it was for some electric utility) gave them a rundown about watching the power plants, switching stations, etc. All was going well until someone in the audience asked whether the company was going to issue weapons or if they should bring their own.

The company spokesperson was horrified and told them that weapons were ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN for volunteers watching the facilities. This didn't go over well, and comments like "You just want us to be like canaries in a coal mine - when we die, you know there's a problem" whereupon the entire audience got up and walked out.

All this happened in just a couple of days after 9/11 and AFAIK it was never spoken of again in the media.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #16 on:** October 02, 2021, 10:22:32 AM »

Quote from: RocketMan on October 01, 2021, 10:32:38 PM

So the ninja attached himself to a special ops group?

No, I think it says the ninja attached them to something else. Very confusing.

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #17 on:** October 02, 2021, 11:24:59 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on October 01, 2021, 10:25:15 PM

HeroHog, I couldn't bring up that picture. It was a link to a duckduckgo search list of URLs about sharpness.

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/10/01/ninja-sword_wide-192194020553e912f6fc4f23d5de08e381d48009-s800-c85.webp

K Frame · « **Reply #18 on:** October 02, 2021, 12:32:58 PM »

I don't think the blade is chewed up. I think it's sitting below the knap of the carpet, making it look as if the blade is ruined.

HeroHog · « **Reply #19 on:** October 02, 2021, 09:52:45 PM »

Quote from: K Frame on October 02, 2021, 12:32:58 PM

I don't think the blade is chewed up. I think it's sitting below the knap of the carpet, making it look as if the blade is ruined.

Ok, I can buy that. Shag huh, how many decades old IS that pic?

K Frame · « **Reply #20 on:** October 03, 2021, 07:37:06 AM »

Not shag. Plush pile.

Andiron · « **Reply #21 on:** October 03, 2021, 10:28:14 PM »

Quote from: HankB on October 02, 2021, 12:23:41 AM

If I were detailed to guard something while unarmed . . . . . . I'd run like hell at the first sign of trouble.

This was stateside USMC, They'd have figured out some way to make it my fault no matter how it ended.. I've got this crazy idea, if you want me to guard your conex full of boom, maybe give me loaded mags for the M4 I've got to hump around at all times anyway? I'll gleefully shoot any dumb bastard that wasn't smart enough to just shoot me while I'm sitting on my ass from a few hundred yards out. Empty pistol? This metal box of fun *expletive deleted*it is all yours.

RocketMan · « **Reply #22 on:** October 03, 2021, 11:34:40 PM »

Quote from: Andiron on October 03, 2021, 10:28:14 PM

This was stateside USMC, They'd have figured out some way to make it my fault no matter how it ended.. I've got this crazy idea, if you want me to guard your conex full of boom, maybe give me loaded mags for the M4 I've got to hump around at all times anyway? I'll gleefully shoot any dumb bastard that wasn't smart enough to just shoot me while I'm sitting on my ass from a few hundred yards out. Empty pistol? This metal box of fun *expletive deleted*it is all yours.

Interesting. Doing the guard thing around boomy stuff in the mid-70s, we always had ammo for our weapons.

Andiron · « **Reply #23 on:** October 04, 2021, 07:43:10 PM »

Quote from: RocketMan on October 03, 2021, 11:34:40 PM

Interesting. Doing the guard thing around boomy stuff in the mid-70s, we always had ammo for our weapons.

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