I only pay attention to this stuff very peripherally but I’m watching a video right now apparently the whole spec ops influencer world is in shambles right now because, surprise surprise, they are all unrepentant liars who have been telling bullshit stories, or other people’s stories, to drum up business for their post-service “learn 2 shoot the bad guy” classes and brand endorsements etc.

Never believe the word of a special forces guy, I’m sure there are some good ones honest ones but they are by nature selected to be the sort of person who will lie to your face for personal gain and are incapable of feeling remorse. By design. They don’t even need to brainwash the empathy out of them, it’s just a useful portion of the normal human population that gets recruited.

Your boss is probably one too. Almost every single person I’ve worked for has been a high masking narcissist or sociopath.