SEAL Team 4 commanding officer dies in Afghanistan

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Cmdr. Job W. Price, 42, died Saturday, Dec. 22, of a non-combat-related injury while supporting stability operations in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan.

Updated at 4 p.m. ET: The commanding officer of SEAL Team 4 died in Afghanistan Saturday, U.S. military officials announced Sunday. 


Military officials tell NBC News they are looking into the death of Cmdr. Job W. Price as a possible suicide, but that his death remains under investigation.

Price, 42, of Pottstown, Pa., was in charge of coordinating all Team 4 missions.

Price was in Afghanistan supporting stability operations in Uruzgan Province. He was assigned to an East Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit based in Virginia Beach, Va.


According to his LinkedIn profile, Price had worked for the Department of Defense since 1989. He attended Pottstown Senior High School. 

SEAL Team 4 is among eight SEAL team deployments. SEAL Team 6 is best known among them for finding and then killing Osama bin Laden, who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on America.  

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Another good life wasted.

  • 27 votes
#1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 3:59 PM EST

Condolences to his family, friends and comrades on team four. I thought there were 15 seal teams, with team six being the best of the best. They are saying eight teams total???

  • 8 votes
#1.1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:41 PM EST
Comment author avatarCourageLovePeaceLiveExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

So you assume that because he was trained in the military to fight and kill, he's absolutely a "good life" wasted? You don't even know the guy.

  • 16 votes
#1.2 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:09 PM EST

Courage,

Yep...I'll go out on that limb!! You willing to assume otherwise?

  • 26 votes
#1.3 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:17 PM EST

And what exactly are you assuming, Courage?? You don't know the guy either.

ANY life is a good life. What the person who was GIVEN that life chooses to do with it, is their choice....but ALL life starts out innocent and good.

  • 23 votes
#1.4 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:21 PM EST

Well lack of courage, at the very least it is his trainning in the military to fight and kill so that you can live under the protection of his actions that allows you to be the whiny self entilted pos that you are.

Semper Fi my brother, may your memory never be forgotten.

  • 41 votes
#1.5 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:22 PM EST

Courage---- Any life that ends tragically is wasted!

  • 22 votes
#1.6 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:23 PM EST

Pete, address whom you are calling a pos. Or is that lack of courage as well?

I'm a girl and I wouldn't be brave enough to address the one I was calling names.

  • 1 vote
#1.7 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:25 PM EST

And you ABSOLUTELY don't know him. What I do know is a man of his rank, and his position has under gone more extensions background checks than probably your entire extended family combined. What I do know is he has led men (and possible woman depending on his prior commands) during the most difficult experiences possible. What exactly have you done with your life?

Exactly...

  • 28 votes
#1.8 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:27 PM EST

*would be. typo

    #1.9 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:29 PM EST

    This is a fuc..ng useless war that keeps claiming our soldiers and bankrupting our country. We need to get the he.l out of there NOW.

    • 20 votes
    #1.10 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:29 PM EST

    CourageLovePeace, Ill put my 2 cents in and assume he achieved more in 1 week than you have in your entire life. Maybe im wrong, but I doubt it. People like you want to live off of the accomplishments of others and then ridicule them as you see fit. Put on the uniform and prove me wrong. I dare ya.

    • 29 votes
    #1.11 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:03 PM EST

    There are technically 12 Teams ... 1,3,5,7 on the West Coast, 2,4,8,10 on the East Coast, and then add in DEVGRU (SEAL Team 6), the two reserve units (17,18), and SDVT-1 in Hawaii.

    RIP, Warrior.

    • 17 votes
    #1.12 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:04 PM EST

    I also offer my condolences to his family and friends, this man served his country with courage, and they should be very proud of him. Thank you for your service and God bless.

    • 20 votes
    #1.13 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:08 PM EST

    tontosh

    that was my first thought when I read the headline!! I am Canadian and I think most of our guys are out of there, but in no way did we participate to the degree that you guys have. I respect your military so so much and everytime I see another death I get angry. So many of these men have had 3 or 4 deployments which is too much. Too many suicides and yes I believe it is a good life wasted. Look at what he has done for his country in Afghanistan. I would guess that a man that commanded a Seal team doesnt get to be such if he is a bad man and also that he would sacrifice his life to even do that in the first place. I guess he had just had enough so it is a tragic loss.

    Condolences the the family of this man - and right before Christmas.

    • 23 votes
    #1.14 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:11 PM EST

    You folks who are blasting Courage for the comment made need lessons in reading everything before you lash out. The comment was in REPLY to the very forst comment made by a moron named "cynical". You might want to read it all and then craft an apology to Courage.

    • 3 votes
    #1.15 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:18 PM EST

    Q: Who signs up for Military doody TO COMMIT SUICIDE ?!?

    Maybe he found out the real purpose for all the killing and destroying outside of USA borders: War ALWAYS is, and always HAS BEEN, for the usurpation of oil & other resources to make a small group of wealthy people even wealthier at the expense of the bodies of poor & ignorant American sign-ups; to gain control over land use; and to have the power of Life & Death over defenseless brown people you've had no prior grudge against.

    People, ALL wars are fuc&ing Useless Wars. The Absolute Truth of all wars: Freedom & Liberty of anyone was NEVER at stake. Patriotism and Jingoism are the mindsets of ignorant, fearful people. It's High Time to start Thinking positively instead of only allowing yourselves to feel negatively, people.

    Rest In Peace, Job Price. The purpose of your fight is over.

    Happy HOLIDAYS, my fellows.

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    #1.16 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:21 PM EST

    Courage you dont have to know the guy, he was one of ours, some of you people have NO CLUE what so ever. Semper Fi SEAL!

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    #1.17 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:39 PM EST

    alan3008:

    Condolences to his family, friends and comrades on team four. I thought there were 15 seal teams, with team six being the best of the best. They are saying eight teams total???

    There is NOT any such thing as "Seal Team Six" and there never has been. It is a creation of the Media. It serves the DOD and Navy purposes to allow people to think that is the name of the units. Special units information and operations are not release to public and/or media.

    • 4 votes
    #1.18 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:58 PM EST

    Homer - time for dinner. Please log off of your mommy's PC.

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    #1.19 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:17 PM EST

    F*ck u courage. I would be willing to bet his life was worth more than yours... Truth be told, the man probably contributed more to this country then your sorry behind ever has or will :/

    • 7 votes
    #1.20 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:24 PM EST

    This hero should get the same treatment and honers as sen. Inouye.

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    #1.21 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:27 PM EST

    I think a lot of people misread who said what. Courage is responding to a stupid statement the first poster, #1 (cunical) said. Dave 309982 (poster #1.15) read it the same way I do.

    My sympathies to the family of Commander Price.

      #1.22 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:37 PM EST

      Wow, CourageLovePeaceLive, you really HATE Military People, don't you? actually, you don't understand the ones who get into it for silly reasons like a love of the 'Warriors Code' and of 'Doing Honorable, Dangerous Deeds for Others Good' - which is only some of these people (Me, though I 'washed out' in Basic Training, due to Medical Problems) - or you'd know that they've thpought about all the killing stuff, too; and you'd know that, like me, they think that there are a whole lotta Big, Bad Wolves out there who'd like to do to nice peacenik hippie chicks, like you, what they did to, say, Daniel Pearl - and they don't CARE if your Unveiled, Infidel Whore (Who, BTW, Mullah One Eye has taught them that they can RAPE at will - WITHOUT EVER GOING TO HELL FOR IT!) "Loves" them, or not!

      I've become rather influencial amongst my younger Muslim friends - largely because I say things about Womens Rights under Islam that piss them off, because they're TRUE - and, in the end, they have very consistantly displayed a rather noble propensity for acknowledging their mistakes, whenever and if-ever someone like me finds the balls to tell them that their making any of them in the FIRST PLACE (I just suggest that they, "Ask el Rumis Pappa to write them a Bull about that, as I doubt if the Holy Prophet Muhamed would," if they get too anal about something - though that's DIRTY 'LOGIC POOL'!); which is why, in my opinion, with a little more time to 'adjust' to the 'outside world' that's coming a screaming at them from their Televisions and their childrens IPads, they - and WE - will all learn to get along together just fine, eventually.

      • 1 vote
      #1.23 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:01 PM EST

      So sad. We need to get out of the business of trying to "better" the world and rain down fire on those that cross us. Teddy said it best.

      • 4 votes
      #1.24 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:11 PM EST

      I agree that this was a good life gone to waste.. It's sad that the human species wars over resources, land, wealth, and dominance over others.. And for those that think he died for your rights, that is true, but I don't think the Indians would consider that as anything less than Ironic, or as an oxymoron if you step back and take a very good look at the overall picture. Yep, we slaughtered innocent lives and the indigenous population to have this country. It's at times like watching the movie Avatar, but we seem to think it's all better because we gave them reservations to live on.. So this country was built on blood and slaughter..

      So that question remains:

      When does it stop?

      Well, not likely till the extinction of our species. And even America will one day cease to be and become some other nation / empire.. It's already fast becoming a Theocracy.. But what is really pathetic about our species is that we see the need for war, hate, bigotry, concrete, and eleitism.. So I would agree here that this mans life went to a complete waste.

      • 3 votes
      #1.25 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:19 PM EST

      Courage is right. He was trained to kill and took many lives (I am sure many innocent too) - so it's hard to say whether or not his life was a "good life" especially if he committed suicide. If any life is a good life wasted, then boy we have wasted a lot of good lives in Afghanistan, American and Afghani people alike.

      • 2 votes
      #1.26 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:22 PM EST

      The second seal we have lost of late, something isn't right with this picture. I don't buy suicide from a guy who made it through what it takes to be a seal.

      • 2 votes
      #1.27 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:23 PM EST

      What is doody Spiderman??? Please edumacate us. No wat I'm sayin'? lol!

        #1.28 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:42 PM EST

        The Jackel,

        I take it you are referring to Casino Indians, and not I.T. Indians. I'm one of those Casino-type Indians. My LadyFriend is an I.T. Indian, from India. Small World.

        The Powers That Be can make the weak-minded citizens think and feel whatever they want weak-minded citizens to think; Systematic BrainWashing. Unfortunately, the GREAT majority of 'merkins are weak-minded people believing themselves to be citizens of a Good Nation that deserves to designate itself to be The Policeman To The World. With rights to use guns. *facepalm*

        Because the weak-minded majority allows this unfortunate Stupidity to happen. The great majority does not bother to question what is essentially utter Stupidity flowing through their lazy minds.

        • 2 votes
        #1.29 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:53 PM EST

        I would offer my condolences to his family for their loss, if I knew them. While I am saddened by the human loss, I am grateful there is one less military in the theater. I have never been a fan of the intrusions into Iraq and Afghanistan, but until a month ago, I would have staunchly defended any service member who "answered the call."

        As a retired firefighter/EMT, I have seen some of the most gruesome inhumanity mankind can inflict on each other outside of a war theater, and was able to compartmentalize what I was witnessing so I could accomplish my job. But a month ago, I saw a raw, uncut video of our military gunning down unarmed civilians, two reporters and two children. It was an older video, but what I saw had me almost throwing up. I, a veteran (not military veteran, though I did do my stint in the Air Force '75 to '79) firefighter/EMT, sat and watched in horror as the events unfolded. It forever changed my view on our military...as a whole. So I do not morn the loss of the SEAL, but the person.

        Being one who "answered the call," I belive I am allowed the priviledge of my changed belief. We send good boys and girls...but what are they when they return? I don't know, but they are not what they once were. War changes people, and never for the good.

        Rest in peace, Mr. Price...my prayers are with you and your family.

        • 4 votes
        #1.30 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:37 PM EST

        If he was Seal Team 4, why did the article mention Seal Team 6? Another plug for Obama?

        Well, now Prince Harry is giving him a run for his money!!

        http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/12/23/prince-harry-rocks-kills-top-taliban-commander-in-afghanistan/

        PRINCE HARRY ROCKS! Kills top Taliban Commander in Afghanistan
        Go Harry!!

        • 3 votes
        #1.31 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:40 PM EST

        DancingSpiderman,

        I am referring to Native Indians of North America to whom were pretty much exploited, killed, and kicked off their lands so this Nation could come to be as it is today. The real Irony is the constitution in a time period where we had slaves, and killed Indians. Anyone that thinks this country wasn't built and taken by force doesn't know American history. We are just the conquering empire that currently inhabits and calls this place home to which we took by killing those who lived here. Is it the current generations fault? No, but lets not kid ourselves of the reality..

        • 3 votes
        #1.32 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:01 PM EST

        Something just doesn't seem right here. This isn't a young soldier with no options returning from a first time deployment. Suicide doesn't fit here unless there is just something not being told.

        Condolences to his family and friends. And for the love of heaven and earth, tell us the truth and get us the hell out of there.

        • 1 vote
        #1.33 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:11 PM EST
        Ledapex62Deleted

        Yes, another good life wasted in this stupid, never ending war... all hail to the US military industrial complex!

        • 5 votes
        #1.35 - Mon Dec 24, 2012 7:53 AM EST

        This should be a wake call for the government with all the soldiers that are coming back from all the wars the the politicians stared.

        With the economy as it is at the present what do they have to look forward too. We still have Vietnam soldiers living on the street 40 years after the US got kicked out of Vietnam.

        Wake uppoliticians, the suicide rate has already incresed in the military.

        And not surprisingly it are the ground pounders that bear the brunt. None of the kerosene cowboys that return every night to a nice comfortable bed and a warm meal, way behind the enemy line seem to have this problem. Or the Generals that are sitting comfortably in Washington collecting the medals and never have had a bullet fired at them

          #1.36 - Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:18 AM EST

          with team six being the best of the best.

          FYI there is no "best of the best" as far as the SEALS are concerned. They all EARNED and wear the trident.

          Please kindly correct your misinformation.

          RIP Shipmate! Hoorah!

          • 2 votes
          #1.37 - Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:26 AM EST

          I agree.

          But I am sick and tired of poor soldiers dying in wrong places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places for Saudi Arabian and Paki Islamic brabarians and beasts.

          But for an ungrateful and backstabbing strategic ally like Pakistan, Afghan war would have been over long time back.

          Iraqi wars were to save the barbaric, beastly and seventh century desert mindset Kuwaiti, Saudi Arabian and other Sunni rulers!

          • 2 votes
          #1.39 - Tue Dec 25, 2012 3:26 AM EST
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          Comment author avatarTVTVwhatTVExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

          Sounds like the government is hding something- but this is the regime. And we are off to Hawaii! who is paying for this. I am ready to withhold my taxes as a middle class person- who is supposed to benefit from this administration! get real! We would lose with either party- lets tell them both- we want another party to really give us qualified people wit intregrity!. They killed this man no doubt.

          • 15 votes
          #2 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:08 PM EST
          Comment author avatarThat'sF'inCrazyExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

          Oh shut the f**k up.

          • 20 votes
          #2.1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:48 PM EST

          TV, you are either a teabag or a fool. Which is it?

          My condolences to this brave man's family and may his soul R.I.P.

          • 13 votes
          #2.2 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:58 PM EST

          @TVTVwhatTV

          Please do withhold your taxes. That way, when they throw your ass in prison we'll not have to read anymore of your moronic gibberish.

          • 11 votes
          #2.3 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:05 PM EST

          Who is supposed to benefit TV? The country is supposed to benefit. Not the r/tp/con and their ideology, anymore than the lib/prog/dem ideology is to benefit. This is not about one party winning and the other losing, even though that is exactly how the teahadists want it or demand it to be. Start looking at things as either the country as a whole benefits, or the country as a whole loses.

          Enough of the false rhetoric based on fear, hatred, or ignorance. Quit demanding the benefits of society until you are willing to share in the responsibilities as well. IOW, sit down and STFU or GTFO. You don't get to have it both ways no matter how you stomp your little feet or no matter how much hate and fear that RL, GB, SH, or BO'R spews into your head.

          As Chris stated @ 2.3, go ahead and withhold your taxes in protest. Enjoy your stay in prison.

          • 6 votes
          #2.4 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:59 PM EST

          the ndaa is coming for u

          source... crisisactors.org.....TELL ME HOW CRAZY I AM NOW....READ.....

          Active Shooter Crisis Actors Target Mall Shootings via Visionbox

          DENVER, CO, October 31, 2012 -- A new group of actors is now available nationwide for active shooter drills and mall shooting full-scale exercises, announced Visionbox, Denver's leading professional actors studio.

          Visionbox Crisis Actors are trained in criminal and victim behavior, and bring intense realism to simulated mass casualty incidents in public places.

          The actors’ stage acting experience, ranging from Shakespeare to contemporary American theater, enables them to "stay in character" throughout an exercise, and improvise scenes of extreme stress while strictly following official exercise scenarios.

          The actors regularly rehearse scenarios involving the Incident Command System and crisis communications, and appear in interactive training films produced in both 2D and stereoscopic 3D.

          Producers Jennifer McCray Rincon and John Simmons formed the group to demonstrate emerging security technologies, help first responders visualize life-saving procedures, and assist trainers in delivering superior hands-on crisis response training.

          For example, with a large shopping center, the producers review all security camera views and design dramatic scenes specifically for existing camera angles, robotic camera sweeps, and manually-controlled camera moves.

          The producers then work with the trainers to create a "prompt book" for the actors so that key scenario developments can be triggered throughout the mall shooting simulation, and caught on tape.

          The actors can play the part of the shooters, mall employees, shoppers in the mall, shoppers who continue to arrive at the mall, media reporters and others rushing to the mall, and persons in motor vehicles around the mall.

          Visionbox Crisis Actors can also play the role of citizens calling 911 or mall management, or posting comments on social media websites.

          BUT IM JUST A WACKO, SANDY HOOK WAS TOTALLY REAL!!!! NOT!!!!

          • 1 vote
          #2.5 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:15 PM EST

          COMBINE THIS WITH THE HORRIBLE ACTING JOBS BY, OBAMA, MR ROSEN, ROBBIE PARKER, and the complete absence of one single solitary real honest to god live tear in all these "emotional reactions" and you begin to realize the real horror of sandy hook, IT WAS ALL FAKED, A DRILL YOU HAVE BEEN DUPED INTO SPARKING A GUN CONTROL DEBATE, divide and conquer, they absolutely will not come to an agreement on "fiscal cliff" so that they can continue to blame each opposing political party, again, divide and conquer, yet americans still insist on believeing thease "political parties" are not in total and complete collusion to run a game on US, WE THE PEOPLE, in order to usher in their new world order, one world oppressive government.

            #2.6 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:19 PM EST

            Well NDAA, I guess that makes the Holocaust not real either.

            Do YOU agree?

            • 2 votes
            #2.7 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:36 PM EST

            The ignorant comments being made about our government must be coming from some place other than our United States citizens. I refuse to believe that any sane person who is a citizen of our country would ever make these ridiculous comments and if they are indeed should be locked up in prison for treason.

            • 4 votes
            #2.8 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:42 PM EST

            So these children were actors? Talk about someone scared that the government is going to take something from them. For the first people talking about the Obamas flying to Hawaii, I don't know who is paying for it. Remember he did have two best selling books? Maybe, just maybe, he paid for it on his own dime but I believe it's about time we get rid of wackos like you and the NDAA. NDAA is talking about training videos, and TV is talking conspiracy theories. Thank God, I don't follow people!

            • 3 votes
            #2.9 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:49 PM EST

            hmmm...i cite articles, with FACTS, apparently in your world, that constitutes an ignorant comment, i research, and read, and form opinions, you apparently, come on here and degrade and belittle anyone whom might contradict the view of the rosey little world you live in, did you even go to crisisactors.org? did you even question wht the need for a company that supplies actors and goes to the lengths they do for these exercises? mannequins dont suffice? they do for the military, why do police need actors and that for training when by there own admission, 90% of the time they show up AFTER THE FACT and write reports and clean up the mess. ive wasted enough time on you stubborn followers, good luck to you all, i truly do hope you realize whats really going on, before its too late, if not, i truly hope you reap what you sow.

            • 1 vote
            #2.10 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:49 PM EST

            @the ndaa is coming for u

            Your entire post is nothing more than fearmongering bullsh*t. You copied a description of an acting school and insinuate that because some agencies prefer using live people in their scenarios that this is proof these things real events are all set up? You f*cking disgust me with your "Sandy Hook was not real" idiocy and you absolutely disrespect those dead kids, their families, and the first responders who had to go in there and see those broken children.

            Yet you cannot provide a single f*cking shred of evidence other than some bullsh*t website that's completely unrelated. Please, don't talk anymore.

            • 5 votes
            #2.11 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:23 PM EST

            NDAA - keep shining the light! These ignorant morons who are so blinded with fear will end up being cannon meat one way or the other. They are too scared to face the facts and chose to believe anything that a man with a suit tells them.

            • 1 vote
            #2.12 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:27 PM EST

            YAYY !!! Tommy Gunn and NDAA !!!

            Keep telling it like it is, Brothers !

            • 1 vote
            #2.13 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:03 PM EST

            the ndaa is coming for u and Tommy Gunn-

            I've been listening to you tin-foil hat types spew your nonsense for far too many years and it's really getting old. It's embarrassing to even try and argue that there are some things I don't like about the ndaa because of all the paranoid lunatic conspiracy-theorists that make any sort of reasoned discussion nearly impossible.

            As for the actual topic of this thread I can only say that every day longer we remain in Afghanistan is one day too many and that I hold Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and their fellow NeoCons responsible for leaving our original mission there unfinished while they started a totally senseless and uncalled for war that not only killed or maimed thousands of our own and many tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis but that also stretched our forces too thin and forced our soldiers to have to deploy time after time after time. And when we finally have to face up to the terrible tolls that those deployments have taken on so many of our troops we will at last recognize just how terribly and tragically wrong our actions were.

            RIP

            • 4 votes
            #2.14 - Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:11 AM EST

            the ndaa is annoying the hell out of me,

            So the aliens errr I mean people responsible for this have successfully taken over Connecticut and duped the entire world or at least us American' Deers. Tell me is Loki their leader? Where are they now? Did they return to Jotunheim? Are you Thor in disguise? Have you taken your meds?????

            Spidey, NDAA, and Tommythegunnless = Retards

            Chris from Yucaipa = Rockstar

            Mom(not mine so you can't ground me) = back to Civics class for you. Unless you believe that the NDAA 2012 & Patriot Act can be invoked you will need a Constitutional Amendment to get a treason charge. Insurrection maybe........ Treason laughable.

            What truly bothers me is that yesterday I told a guy in a post that though I'm 17yrs. old HIS was the stupidest thing that I have ever heard. Now today this............... and it's even dumber. Can't wait for tomorrow;)

            My deepest sympathies to the family and friends of this SEAL and all of OUR people in harms way.

            • 3 votes
            #2.15 - Tue Dec 25, 2012 3:34 AM EST
            Reply

            Condolences to his Family Thank you for your service!

            • 17 votes
            Reply#3 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:12 PM EST

            Unbelievable, the callous comments and ignorance.

            • 14 votes
            Reply#4 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:14 PM EST

            Agreed. The vitriol spewed here is fit only for a sewer.

            A serviceman lost his life in the "service" of his country. Sir, I respect and honor your sacrifice.

            My condolences to his family and fellow service men and women.

            • 9 votes
            #4.1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:32 PM EST
            Reply

            Now the republicans can waste time on another conspiracy theory.

            • 11 votes
            Reply#5 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:20 PM EST

            And the socialist libs like obama can concentrate on cutting the military and giving that money to worthless people (welfare recipients).

            • 6 votes
            #5.1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:02 PM EST

            I live in Canada so maybe I dont fully understand the circumstances of your welfare there - but to call a welfare recipient "worthless" to me is too much. You are lumping everyone in the US under one label. I am sure with your economy a lot of people have no choice but to be on welfare - maybe just temporarily or until they find employment which I understand is high there. I know all about welfare from living here and yes there are those that abuse the system, there are cases where going on welfare is a generation thing but there are single moms and dads who have lost their jobs that need a "hand up" for awhile. We have taken steps to better control who gets welfare and for how long and there is a time limit as to when you must find a job. But please calling people that is like saying all the mentally ill people are crazy people when in fact they are people who suffer from a mental illness. The affliction does not define who is person really is.

            • 9 votes
            #5.2 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:24 PM EST

            See, now you got them started...

            • 1 vote
            #5.3 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:54 PM EST

            "cutting the military and giving that money to worthless people (welfare recipients)."

            The military is a welfare recipient. That's why so many join for 20 years and collect the benefits afterwards.

            • 2 votes
            #5.4 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:07 PM EST

            Grag_S,

            I guess the military welfare recipients have developed the well-practiced ability to tune-out that Truth, and get angry whenever some thinking person brings up the irony:

            "The military is a welfare recipient. That's why so many join for 20 years and collect the benefits afterwards."

            • 1 vote
            #5.5 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:08 PM EST

            Sad. And I'm going to avoid politics as it has no place in this thread.

            None of us know what this man was going through. I recall reading somewhere that more people take their life around the Christmas Holidays then any other time of year. Maybe they think back to spending time with their kids or further back to when they were kids and being with the family. Add to that long deployments and the possibility of PTSD..it isn't an easy life.

            • 3 votes
            #5.6 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 11:51 PM EST

            Well said Eraser.

            • 1 vote
            #5.7 - Mon Dec 24, 2012 5:18 PM EST
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            This is why suicide rates are high among veterans, is because of the constant deployments over and over. Image being in a hellhole for months at a time with very few switches like normal divisions do to prevent that kind of things. Image being in a place where you're contently at edge because the fruit vender next to you could be hiding the bomb. Or a herder that greeted you could be the guy sniping you from the hills later that night. Image the stress and emotional toll it costs on the soldiers that the friendly Pashtun soldier you trained with and laugh with would turn around to put a few AK bullets in your back one day.

            • 8 votes
            Reply#6 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:20 PM EST

            could you imagine what all that guy knew. wow. sad.

            • 7 votes
            Reply#7 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:38 PM EST

            he obviously knew too much...

            • 7 votes
            Reply#8 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:45 PM EST

            Semper Fi, RIP Sir.

            • 10 votes
            Reply#9 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:48 PM EST

            My condolences goes out to his family. Your service to our country is always appreciated to the hearts.

            • 7 votes
            Reply#10 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:49 PM EST

            meanwhile we fund and support terrorist groups in Syria. Also happened in Libya. Great job America. I'm so tired of this s h i t.

            • 5 votes
            Reply#11 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:53 PM EST

            Regardless of the circumstances in his death, may he rest in peace. My heart goes out to his family. Here it is Christmas time, and we have a catastrophic event in the lives that go on. War is hell on earth, and the prolonged wars are taking a toll on the 1% of our population that fight them. Please each of us that comment - let this man - one of the finest - Rest in Peace.

            • 14 votes
            Reply#12 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:03 PM EST

            Jim - Indeed. Heartbreaking.

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            #12.1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:17 PM EST

            Agreed Jim, 23 years of service. May he rests in blissful peace.

            • 2 votes
            #12.2 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:48 PM EST
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            Comment author avatarthe ndaa is coming for uExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

            just let the trolls troll, let the haters hate, to those that can see the forest through the trees, another honorable member of our armed services suicided, as this baltenly obious sandy hoax shooting shows, they will go to any lengths, we the citizens are not far behind facing this fate, NOT ONE CHILD DIED IN SANDY HOOK CONNECTICUT, WAKE UP AMERICA, GROW A SPINE AND STAND UP, OR YOU WILL SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE ON YOUR KNEES, r.i.p victoria soto fb page created on DECEMBER 10TH, emilie parkers dad robbie, laughing and jokin before "getting into character" b4 press conference, med. examiner, mr. rosen, teacher in diane sawyer interview, dictator obama ALL APPEAR TO CRY, BUT I DEFY YOU TO PROVE AND SHOW ME 1 TEAR, for that matter, show me a drop of blood, much less a body. VISIONBOX... A COMPANY THAT EMPLOYS "CRISIS ACTORS" FOR LIVE SHOOTING EXERCISES!!!!! aurora, planned, sandy hook, planned and FAKE. anyone in connecticut GO TO SANDY HOOK, I DARE YOU, FIND THESE PEOPLE AND EXPOSE THEIR LIES, THE GOVT HAS ADMITTED TO PLACING ORDERS FOR 1.6 BILLION, WITH A B, ROUNDS OF AMMO, AND NOW THEY WANT TO BAN THE ONLY WEAPONS THAT WOULD CHALLENGE THEM IN A TYRANNICAL TAKEOVER, TIME IS SHORT AMERICA, STAND UP AND STOP THIS MADNESS... NOW!!!!

            • 2 votes
            Reply#13 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:06 PM EST

            Ndaa, Shut the @!$%# up...

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            #13.1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:25 PM EST

            Holy crap ndaa someone needs to shoot you and put you out of your delusional misery, frikkin teabagger

            • 7 votes
            #13.2 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:26 PM EST

            I suggest you take your conspiracy theories and move out of America. Yes the NDAA has some dubious wording in it, but remember the government is of the people, for the people and BY the people. We don't live in a country that has a "government" class. We have rich, poor, etc. but we don't have a "ruling" class. If we did, then people like Palin, Bachman, McCain, and even Obama would never be aloud to be part of the government. Stand up, Yes, but stand up for America, not because of your conspiracy theories. Hell you sound more like a Right wing crazy than the left wing nut that you are. Take your ball and go home!

            • 5 votes
            #13.3 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:31 PM EST

            keep on trollin bro, collect that paycheck, so what does obama bin lyins nutsack taste like anyway?

            • 1 vote
            #13.4 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:37 PM EST

            Hey Pete; you must be one of those peace living liberals. Freaking moron. Hope you get shot first.

            • 1 vote
            #13.5 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:27 PM EST

            It is a crying shame that there is a war still going on in Afghan. All our cream of the crop being killed or destroyed, I hope to God he did not commit suicide. May his soul rest in peace. Condolence to his family.

              #13.6 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:30 PM EST
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              It is one thing to die for your country. It is another to die for a political whim.

              • 4 votes
              Reply#14 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:12 PM EST

              you know the way the mob kills anyone involved in a big operation that may tie it to the bosses? this is the same thing it happened with the helicopter shot down now this guy

              • 1 vote
              Reply#15 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:19 PM EST

              You never know. My work buddy Bob was in the Special Forces and his CO in country was sent home from Vietnam because of all the attempted assassinations by his own men. The guy became an adviser the director of John Wayne's movie , "The Green Berets".

                #15.1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:28 PM EST

                oh gee, yer CRAZY lmao, crazy like a fox, so now you'll be inindated with responses such as "Holy crap ndaa someone needs to shoot you and put you out of your delusional misery, frikkin teabagger"...pete in west palm(yeah i bet he has somethin in his palm) an OBVIOUS peaceful liberal, what his ignorant mind cant comprehend is, there is not one single difference between dems and reps, they are all on the same team, runnin a game on all of us, and his lack of ability towards independent thought is fueling this divide and conquer plan the govt is laying out for us. i do not sweat these trolls, if they are really this ignorant, and believe what they say, they will find out the hard way soon enough, and if they are being employed to spew their garbage, they'll find out soon enough, just like hitlers brown shirts found out, how loyal their "leaders" really are to them.

                • 2 votes
                #15.2 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:42 PM EST
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                Fair winds and following seas Shipmate...we have the watch

                • 8 votes
                Reply#16 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:22 PM EST

                Eternal Father, Strong to save,
                Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
                Who bid'st the mighty Ocean deep
                Its own appointed limits keep;
                O hear us when we cry to thee,
                for those in peril on the sea.

                • 3 votes
                #16.1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:43 PM EST

                I second what VH Navy said, and that is all that needs to be said about this warrior. I cannot belive the ignorance, intolerance and vitrolic comments on this thread. Take a look at his fruit salad on his chest and then ask, as JFK did, what have you done for your country? It sounds like a lot of people have diarrhea of the mouth about things they know nothing about. Especially the comments about Team 6. It's time to grow up and live a little before you start shooting your mouth off. Of course you are corageous since these jerks hide behind a computer, but I wonder if they would say that to an old SEAL like me to my face? Comments like I see here belong in the sixties you nincompoops. VH Navy said all that needs to be said and we should learn from his example. Also thanks to Andy Blackwood for his thoughts.

                • 2 votes
                #16.2 - Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:45 AM EST
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                My deepest sympathies to Job Price's family, friends and team members. I am so sorry for your loss and the loss to our nation. Thank you for your service Mr. Price. Your sacrifices are immeasurable, as is my gratitude.

                • 5 votes
                Reply#17 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:23 PM EST

                Another good man gone...RIP

                • 5 votes
                Reply#18 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:24 PM EST

                A suicide would not be a surprise, but one has to wait for the whole story to come out. It could have been prompted by anything in his life. My good friend Mike who was a retired SEAL died in his sleep. Mike was wired and he never really unwound after his service and really this stress over a long period of time did him in.

                • 3 votes
                Reply#19 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:25 PM EST

                Perhaps the weight of inner conflict over being ordered to wage illegal war on mostly innocent people in a country we have no business being in was too much for him to bear.

                Or maybe he was about to speak out about it. Who knows. If it happened in the military good luck finding the facts...you won't hear them in the US news media.

                • 4 votes
                Reply#20 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:34 PM EST

                Illegal war? You idiots make me laugh. Get your mommy to read the truth to you because you obviously don't know how to read. Why would you need facts about this man's death when other facts about Afghanistan are beyond your comprehension?

                Wow. Reading some of the posts here makes me wonder how some people can function in society.

                • 2 votes
                #20.1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:18 PM EST

                I agree E=MC4 Maybe that's why we the people aren't acting so well in society RIP soldier

                  #20.2 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:13 PM EST
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                  You will never know the real story!

                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#21 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:39 PM EST

                  ...because you couldn't handle the truth !

                  • 1 vote
                  #21.1 - Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:00 AM EST
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                  JoBobDingDeleted

                  RIP frogman

                  • 5 votes
                  Reply#23 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:44 PM EST

                  and for all those trolls so quick to shoot down my "wacko conspiracy theories", they would like to remind you that pat tillman was killed by "friendly fire" NO REALLY he wasnt assasinated for threatening to expose the heroin trafficking they were forced to take part in, and that the "taliban" was the least of their concerns, it was ALL JUST A BIG MISUNDERSTANDING, you can trust them, cause the government told them so!!! now just go back to sleep, and quit asking those pesky little questions, quit trying to expose the annoying truth of these propaganda filled lies your govt. is telling you!!!!!

                  • 1 vote
                  Reply#24 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:47 PM EST

                  well if you are so concerned about the ravages of the heroin market YOU COULD LEAVE OFF OF BUYING IT EVERY NOW AND AGAIN????!!!!

                  Sorry, just a little levity from a fellow Pottstonian, where the seal dude was from. That's how we used to do it there, haven't lived there for a while but still call it home. All love to his family.

                  :)

                    #24.1 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:38 PM EST
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                    I am so sorry to read this. One of my neighbors just got back from Afghanistan and he said it was the worst deployment ever. He is a pilot and now he doesn't like flying any more and he loved to fly. I am lucky my neighbor came home in one piece and his eight year old son has dad for Christmas.

                    Since we have already said we are leaving I wish we would just leave now before another American loses his life to this stupid war. Afghanistan will not be any different a month from now or a year from now.

                    If you disagree, please remember the young girl who was fighting for her education and was shot. Let's just let them have their god forsaken desert country. Oh yes she is in the USA for more free surgery but we are losing our soldiers, marines, navy and airforce.

                    • 6 votes
                    Reply#25 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:53 PM EST
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                    Thank you fellas.Oskumbag should have the flags lowered by now ,but it does not help the dems so it might be awhile.

                      Reply#26 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:54 PM EST
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