Dallas swat?!

Anybody ever watch Dallas SWAT?  It is a “reality show” about, well the Dallas SWAT team.  I watched an episode a while back and spent the entire time yelling at the tv.  I don’t have a big issue with police tactical teams, it’s a fact of life that they are needed.  I wish that weren’t the case but alas.  No the problem I have with this show is that these guys “John Wayne” it for the camera.  “John Wayneing” is military slang for showboating or doing something dangerously stupid.  Those are the guys who draw fire and get others killed.  It is not a term of endearment.  Ok everybody caught up?  I watched these guys do a “raid”, that is cop speak for assault, on a one story strip club/drug house.  These guys did this stupidly complicated operation on the place.  Listening to them try and justify the specifics was fucking hilarious.  I guess saying “we have this cool stuff and want to show everybody how cool we are.”  isn’t really an option?  Look doing cool guy stuff is fun as hell but doing it under fire just to show off is asinine.  Maybe I’ve spent too much time with professional soldiers to be anything but disgusted by the antics of these flatheads.  

Later,
Sam