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Richard Marcinko

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    (November 21, 1940-December 25, 2021)
    AKA: 'Demo Dick' Marcinko
    C.E.O. of SOS Temps, Inc.
    Author of 'Rogue Warrior,' 'Red Cell,' 'A Commando's Guide to Success,' 'Echo Platoon,' 'Violence of Action,' 'Seal Force Alpha,' and 'One Perfect Op: An Insider's Account of the Navy SEAL Special Warfare Teams'
    Founder and first Commanding Officer of Seal Team 6, the Navy Counterterror unit

Why he might be annoying:

    He is divorced
    He knows 30 different ways to kill you with his bare hands.
    His books are self-serving, preaching about how great he and the Navy SEAL's are.
    He brags in his books about how he would go out of his way to annoy his superiors.
    Because of this, his superiors rebuffed many practical ideas he had.
    As a stunt, he once breached White House security carrying a pistol, two knives, and a pair of handcuffs.
    He and his Navy SEAL buddies would go to great lengths to gross people out at meals, so they would have the table to themselves.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He pretty much wrote the book on Military Counter Terrorism.
    He formed a unit called, 'Red Cell,' that would evaluate the security of U.S. Military bases.
    Red Cell was able to infiltrate seemingly impenetrable, highly secured bases, nuclear submarines, ships and other purported 'secure areas.'
    He appeared on 60 minutes in 1992, and rode through a U.S. submarine base on a small boat with a camera and a reporter to show how lax security was.
    He enlisted in the Navy at 17 as a radioman, and rose through the ranks to command the Navy's most elite special forces group.
    Some of his counter terror ideas were rejected for political correctness, and it is believed that he could have prevented the 1983 bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon were it not for this.

Credit: Melonhead


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 37 Votes: 56.76% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 56 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 101 Votes: 49.50% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 29 Votes: 34.48% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 121 Votes: 59.50% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 100 Votes: 69.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 38 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 92 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 78 Votes: 51.28% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 61 Votes: 45.90% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 45 Votes: 64.44% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 85 Votes: 38.82% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 39 Votes: 64.10% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 88 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 115 Votes: 53.91% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 238 Votes: 57.14% Annoying