Jim west special forces biography

Check out our shirts, stickers, mugs and more! In , while stationed in Ft. We had many visiting troops from the US crowding our space on Ft. This caused some overcrowding and the visiting troops were there for war. I know mine did. I was working out and doing fight training every day at the Ft. Gulick gym and our visitors were bogarting the heavy bags, ring, weights etc.

Between that and crowding the SF guys out of our drinking hole and acting like they owned everything, I figured it was only a matter of time before tensions lead to conflict and not with the Panamanians.

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It started at the gym when I was doing some boxing ring , when a few hard looking visiting soldiers came by watched for a bit and then tried to intimidate me by telling us to give them the ring so they could work out. They basically tried bullying us out of our own house. In short, I invited one of them into the ring and promptly knocked him out.

This is what led to the real fight later that evening over beer and shots in the NCO Club.

James “Smokey” West is the founder of American Extension Fighting (AEF).

It was about 7 p. About an hour and a half later, the same asshole bullies from the gym showed up. I noticed them long before they noticed me. Eventually the guy I knocked out recognized me and told his friends.