"Combat Missions" reality show participant Scott Helvenston

GreenPartyVoter

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Fri Apr-02-04 01:11 PM
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"Combat Missions" reality show participant Scott Helvenston

Edited on Fri Apr-02-04 01:17 PM by GreenPartyVoter

was one of the guys killed in Fallujah.

I didn't really like him when I saw the show way back a couple of years ago, but I still feel badly for his family. (And the other folks' families as well.)

http://www.usanetwork.com/series/combatmissions/squads/delta.html

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rinsd

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Fri Apr-02-04 01:17 PM
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1. He was kind of a jerk on the show....

But it was funny to see him get beat by a chimpanzee on an obstacle course in later TV work for Fox.

It seems he lived in Oceanside a little north of San Diego. They had a picture of his mnother on the front page of the Union Tribune today.

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Fri Apr-02-04 01:19 PM
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2. Yeah, as big as a jerk as he was, I still feel bad for him :(

But he was there of his own free will.

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rinsd

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Fri Apr-02-04 01:22 PM
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3. He was....

When he was on the Combat show, you got the sense he still wanted to be with the SEALs. A local paper article said it was no surprise he went off to Iraq.

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hexola

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Fri Apr-02-04 01:25 PM
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4. Well...they did say Iraq would become a haven for terrorists...(nt)

Edited on Fri Apr-02-04 01:25 PM by hexola

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Fri Apr-02-04 01:29 PM
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6. What does that mean?

Are you saying that he was a terrorist?

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Fri Apr-02-04 01:28 PM
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5. Combat Missionaries make thousands of $....

compared to the pennies US regular soldiers get paid. They are real risk takers.

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Fri Apr-02-04 01:32 PM
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7. he trash-talked a chimp on "Man vs. Beast"

http://www.newworldotter.com/otterz/archives/00000013.htm

Man vs. Chimp: Ah the classic rivalry to see who actually evolved. Up till now, this battle took place in high tech NASA labs and training facilities. Thanks to Fox however, we�ll got to see the quintessential showdown� on a cheaply made obstacle course?

Well, the chimp lost. The man, ex Navy SEAL Scott Helvenston, had this to say of the failed chimp: �It�s just a wannabe human.�

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