Was Cold War Africa the golden age of mercenaries?

t. van owen

you are culturally illiterate

Roland would still be alive if he used a Grease gun, prove me wrong

He got shot in the back

>It was the golden age for freelance goons who were happy to kill darkies
>>Implying this isn't the dream

Posting original (best) version
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Warron Zevon was the only popular songwriter that really made music about mercenaries.

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1400's was probably the height of legit mercenary forces, back when most countries simply couldn't afford to keep a standing armor.

This.

The period of Free Companies wandering the countryside and rocking up to kingdoms to be like "Okay so here's how this goes, you can pay us not to take shit and we'll fight for you as an army if you need that, OR we can just raid your shit until we get bored or you run out."

This is now a Zevon thread.
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Never heard the cover before. Love zevon

Since this is a Zevon thread can some one please clue me in onto what he references when he lists Berkeley as a conflict zone? I cant seem to find anything that would attract a phantom mercenary

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He wrote that song based off of a retired mercenary he met in Spain.

Lesson learned, real mercenaries will blow away comrades for pay.

Zevon is great. The chick who did the cover is also a pretty good artist in her own right. Her cover of House of the Rising Sun is fucking awesome.

I think he was referring to Berkley due to the fact that Patti Hearst was going there when she was abducted/joined the SLA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army

Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the SLA, who were supposed freedom fighters back in the 60s. They operated around Berkeley robbing banks and bombing.

People like to talk about civil war and how crazy it is today, but we had legit para military forces operating on our soil back then.

I met Ray Mancini at a charity pro-am boxing event in my home town maybe 5 years ago.

The first thing I said to him was I didn't know what was crazier, meeting a world champion boxer or another real life Zevon fan.

If he had used the superior M3 he would have maintained better situational awareness

interesting, thanks fellas

>People like to talk about civil war and how crazy it is today, but we had legit para military forces operating on our soil back then.
This. Modern political issues pale in comparison to the unrest we had in the 60s and 70s.

We have that in some respects now with antifa and others

Enjoy every sandwich.

Compared to these guys, antifa mostly consists of lazy LARPers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States#Left-wing_and_anti-government_extremism

Antifa are larpers not paramilitary.
They are basically Jow Forums with national attention and willingness to get together.

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Y'alls assigned reading is 'Days of Rage' by Bryan Burrough.

Review:

status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

Get out Communist. Go back to >Leftypol

ANTIFA isn't Jow Forums.

This. At least some of antifa have guns.

youtu.be/eZUQ2FdwIyY

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antifa is k because they too are larpers

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Anitfa aren't shit compared to the SLA and the like.

They're, at their worst, football hooligans, who couldn't organize a serious terror group because they'd all kill each other over whether they should be trotskyites or stalinists or some shit

Correct. AFAIK, the only recent left wing terrorist attacks have generally been lone wolfs as well, that guy who shot up the baseball game didn't seem to have any connection to larger groups.

It's mostly been loony fascist wannabes desu, although you can't say that on Jow Forums

>Oh No, my Commie propaganda won't be accepted without Challenges.

GB2R/Discord with you.

I'm not really sure how saying antifa is relatively ineffectual counts as commie propaganda. Leftist radicalism in the US has been effectively castrated since the 80's.

>Modern contractors are gay compared to cold war mercenaries though.

In what ways?

t. Retard

DADT was repealed, so they're allowed to be open about it now.

>It was the golden age for freelance goons who were happy to kill darkies for peanuts

COMMUNIST darkies for peanuts, and you say that like it's a bad thing?

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His last interview on Letterman is fantastic.

>we've heard some news about your health, would you feel comfortable about talking about that?

Yeah, so you heard. I've got the flu.

>Followed by

I may have made a slight tactical error in not seeing a doctor in 20 years.

I guess you could say the doc told him his shit was fucked up.
youtube.com/watch?v=Fl0ahDKR0QU

For someone who wrote so much about dark humor I can't help but think he saw the big joke.

>quits heroin because everyone tells him it stops him from performing and it will kill him
>quits drinking because everyone tells him it stops him from performing and will kill him
>dies from mesothelioma from asbestos in all the old theaters from performing

You're the retard m8, there's really no organized violent leftist groups that compare to the 60's/70's era
If it wasn't for Tucker and Hannity fear baiting nobody would know about antifa because they're impotent as fuck

I'm sure the first two probably didn't help his longevity.

Now they're 99% overpaid security guards

I swear women ruin everything

based

based

he made like two songs, cringe pilled

cringe

based

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Same could be said for the "Nazis" just replace with Maddow and Cenk.

funker530.com/mercenary-pilot-air-force-veteran/

Speaking of mercenaries... Florida man leading the way again.

>USAF vet.
>mechanic
>gets a pilot license after service
>somehow talks his way from cessna into mig

Wasn't that the guy who initially claimed to Portuguese when he was shot down?

>he made music about mercenaries
>only like 2 songs about them

Yeah, which is 2 songs more than most. Quick being so autistic

Yeah. Took the Jack Reacher plan to call himself Jimmie Reese.

>two songs
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Jungle Work
Lawyers Guns and Money
The Envoy
Can't think of any others off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's more.

Probably the smartest possible move, desu. I wouldn't wanna be identified as an American if I were shot down over somewhere like Libya.

He got shot in the head stupid

The envoy's about some specific statesman and lawyers guns and money never actually mentions what he did to get in the situation; I always figured he was some US defector or something

>t. high IQ

kek

A lot of his songs are political without necessarily taking sides. See: Mohammed's Radio. I for one really like it.

That doesn't invalidate his point shrimpdick, nor was he making a claim to the contrary of your statement. It's obvious you're a commie sympathizer that just comes here to comment on anything vaguely against your political agenda. Take your noodle armed, estrogen filled, noguns ass back to wherever the fuck you came from.

Envoy I didn't count because that was about a government employee, lawyers guns and money is a stretch, but I'll give it to you.

Roland and Jungle Work were the two I was thinking of.

Zevon was Jow Forums as fuck.

Him and Dr. Thompson would hang out shoot guns and blow shit up all day.

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One of the times he realized he was drinking too much, he got into an argument drunk, with his wife.

He ended up storming out of the house into the shed. His wife heard a gun shot and ran out into the shed to see what happened.

Zevon fired his .44 magnum into a picture of himself on album cover. He started laughing and reading his wife saying something like, I bet you thought I shot myself, you were right!

The next day he went to rehab.

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does him being an ethnic Jew change anything?

Not for me. I always thought he would've had a much better career if he followed that jew globalist cult.

Look at someone like sammy Davis. He converted to Judaism and all of the sudden he was the most famous black man in America. Zevon was never a major star. He was influential because he helped write material for so many others.

who would've thought

Prove it nigger

Shut up nigger they are gender autists while Jow Forums is gun autists

They can even commit war "crimes" can you believe that bs.

YOU CAN STILL SEE HIS HEADLESS BODY STALKING THROUGH THE NIGHT.

About goddam time we had a good old fashioned Zevon thread.

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Thats so fucking based.

He also loved to shoot at cockroaches with a .38 while wasted in the bathtub.

That's fucking awesome. I never heard that.

>I've got a .38 special up on the shelf
>If I start acting stupid I'm just gonna shoot myself
>I'll sleep when I'm dead

When ever I have to build intestinal fortitude and embrace the suck I just keep chanting 'strength and muscle and jungle work'

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Veracruz is cool too

>Fruity Rudy
(+1) Internetz

Nah, this is Jow Forums, not Jow Forums, despite their best efforts.

jews do make the best weapons.

Every time we have a merc thread this jerk shows-up

Is that Roland?

Let me catch you up. Yes, link is a cover, this thread is about mercenaries and Zevon

He is the physical incarnation of war

Anyone got a link to the documentary the clips came from in the OP?

youtu.be/V355OG77SQM

unironicly made me support colonialism.

Thx

Thank you for the link user! I've been dying to watch this, but last time I checked they only posted Mondo Cane

Yah definitely watching this here later tonight

based docukino

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It definitely was a wonderful, wonderful life.
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