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In recent months, the behavior of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein
and the allegations made against him by dozens of women has taken
America by storm and set off a chain reaction of women coming
forward to speak about workplace sexual assault, sexual harassment,
and the boys club that perpetuates this type of bad behavior. While 12 Strong: A fictional
the entertainment industry has been rocked the hardest by this film that hails real life
heroes who deserve our

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scandal, others have gone more or less unaffected. Sexual assault in

respect

the US military has at least entered the public consciousness over the
last decade, but many stories remain buried, suppressed, and untold.

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Our story begins when Colonel Christopher Riga agreed to hire
Jennifer O’Brien as the Group secretary in 2012, who soon became
notorious within the ranks of 7th Special Forces Group. The Group’s
Deputy Commanding Officer, Robert Kirila and the unit’s Executive
Officer, Dave Gunther, interviewed her and made the Watch: Cockpit footage
recommendation to hire O’Brien. of RAF Typhoons
intercepting Russian
As the Group secretary, she appeared to be a competent employee at bombers on Monday

first but over time it became apparent that she had so many affairs
that they were impossible to keep track of. She was quite open about
her relations with Team Sergeants, Sergeants Major, and Officers Search Search

within the unit. Each day, O’Brien would gather with the Green Berets
in the Group conference room for beers where she would recount her
latest conquests. Although a civilian employee, these exploits were
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technically in violation of UCMJ for the soldiers involved who were
married as outlined in Article 134 which pertains to adultery. O’Brien ORIGINAL NEWS
was herself married to an Airman during this time.
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There were other Special Forces soldiers who came to learn of these
relationships and developed concerns about them. In one instance, SOFREP RADIO
O’Brien was observed crying at her desk. When asked what was
wrong she declined to explain. However, as the weeks went on she MILITARY HISTORY
began to open up to some of the 7th Group soldiers in the office
about how she had been seeing an officer in the unit but when she POLITICS
broke it off, he kept harassing her by sending her pictures of his

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genitalia. At first, she did not want to name this individual but later on, FOREIGN POLICY
as events began to spiral out of her control, she revealed that it was
the commander of 7th Group’s Third Battalion, Dave Bowling. As it
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turned out, he was a so prolific that his own men nick named him
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“Dick Pic Six.”

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When the new incoming Group commander, Colonel Michael Ball,
took over he began to make some honest efforts to clean things up in
his headquarters, but faced significant obstacles due to the amount of
leverage that O’Brien had, especially when it came to the tranche of
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emails, text messages, and pictures she had in her collection from
married men in 7th Group. Ball was not a prior 7th Group officer and
not a part of the good old boys club in the unit. He was straight laced Name
and by the book. The situation came to a head when it was
discovered that O’Brien was also abusing crystal meth. At this point, Email
Colonel Ball and others saw this as an opportunity to purge O’Brien
from the unit. A 15-6 investigation was initiated, and the Military Sign Up
Police were informed so that they could sweep the Group
headquarters with drug sniffing dogs.

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Interestingly, O’Brien was conspicuously absent that day, some say
tipped off by someone in headquarters. Only a select few would have
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known that the Military Police would be coming. Meanwhile, an officer
named Jason Sartori came to the unit and was slated to take
command of C-3-7, the 7th Group Commanders in-Extremis Force IRAQ
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that specializes in counter-terrorism operations. Sartori and Bowling

both started off in 5th Special Forces Group prior to making the jump IRAN
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over to 7th Group. Allegations have been made that when Sartori’s

wife found electronic messages between him and O’Brien, a SPECIAL FORCES

confrontation began. At that point, Sartori allegedly tried to strangle

his wife. Several sources went on to allege that Sartori was also HEADLINE
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physically abusive with O’Brien, who eventually broke things off with
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In an online posting, O’Brien stated that, “…because of a relationship CHINA

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I had with a monster, a Soldier with whom I worked, I have been

indefinitely suspended, and placed in a no pay status, as a FREE CONTENT
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Department of the Army Civilian.” Along with her statement, she

posted a series of photographs showing bruising and an apparent DONALD TRUMP

broken elbow, injuries she allegedly suffered by the hands of Sartori.

In a interview with SOFREP, Sartori vigorously denied any allegation NAVY SEALS

of physical abuse against his ex-wife or O’Brein. Sartori was arrested

for false imprisonment, strangulation, battery, and intimidating a SPECIAL OPERATIONS

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As the 15-6 investigation continued, O’Brien played a shrewd game of

cards by withholding the significant amount of blackmail material and
threatening to release bits and pieces of it as needed. Investigating
officers and other officers in the unit to include Colonel Ball were also
asking 1st Special Forces Command for assistance in their efforts to
clean up their unit’s problems but were receiving zero support from
their parent command. Special Forces Command not only denied
support but outright told 7th Group to stand down their investigation
and not make waves. No one understood why at the time.
Nonetheless, O’Brien was placed on administrative leave and had her
clearance suspended.

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Jason Sartori states that he had a board in inquiry looking into the
charges against him. The board recommended an other than
honorable discharge.  Sartori says that he elected to resign his
commission instead. Other witnesses spoke to SOFREP on the
condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation from their unit
and had already experienced punitive actions for speaking out against
unethical, immoral, and illegal activities. Some were intimidated and
threatened. One source went as far as to describe Sartori as, “a
fucking psycho.”

It was also at this time that O’Brien attempted to use her text
messages, emails, pictures, and videos from her encounters with
senior ranking Green Berets to blackmail them into helping her get
her job back as the Group secretary. Special favors may have been
exchanged earlier on, but now the investigation was too big and out of
the hands of the Colonels and Sergeants Major who may have helped
her beforehand.

Placed on leave with a suspended security clearance, Jenn began

working up a hit list of men that she was going to take down with her.
She carefully controlled the flow of blackmail material up until the time
that it became apparent that she would not be getting her job back. At
that point O’Brien made claims to unit members that she had a “silver

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bullet” that could “bring down the entire Red Empire,” referring 7th
Special Forces Group’s nickname.

In early November of 2017, Command Sergeant Major Brian Rarey

was removed as the senior enlisted soldier in 1st Special Forces
Command. He had been one of the names on O’Brien’s hit list.
Suddenly, it made sense why Special Forces Command had stymied
the investigation into O’Brien. It would have been a question of self-
preservation for the unit’s Command Sergeant Major and potentially
many others in echelons above 7th Group. The investigation did not
just ensnare Rarey but also Dave Bowling, Jason Sartori, and a half
dozen senior Special Forces officers who compromised themselves
with O’Brien. Some have gone on to high level positions, including at
the Pentagon. In the end, Colonel Ball was the only one who tried to
get rid of O’Brien while the vast majority of senior NCOs and Officers
in 7th Group tried to cover up scandal after scandal surrounding
O’Brien and the men she slept with.

For the men of 7th Special Forces Group, the actions of their senior
leaders came across as a double standard.  Their officers and senior
NCOs were exposed as hypocritical leaders who would lecture the
enlisted men about discipline and punish them for indiscretions, while
they themselves were setting a negative example with illicit affairs,
covering up for their buddies, engaging in physical abuse against
women, and more; all without any fear of punishment until their
activities finally spun outside their control and could not be kept under
wraps any longer.

For instance, Dave Bowling went on to be Major General Kraft’s S3

Officer in Iraq in as a part of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) in
2015.

For many of the witnesses and bystanders at 7th Special Forces

Group, the entire episode is emblematic of the culture that exists in
their unit. Covering down on the SOUTHCOM Area of Responsibility
which includes Central and South America, these Green Berets are
often exposed to women in foreign cultures where casual sex is not
as taboo as it is for soldiers assigned to say, 5th Special Forces
Group that covers the Middle East. Take for example, the story about
7th Special Forces Group soldiers in Colombia that emerged after a
Secret Service agent refused to pay a prostitute.

That said, others feel that this is a naïve point of view and that the

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issue is one of Special Forces culture more than any particular area
of operation. One female soldier pointed towards a team house that
was frequently visited by Kurdish prostitutes in Iraq for instance.
Temptations will always present themselves to deployed soldiers. A
former Special Forces officer was even more blunt about this subject
saying that these Green Berets, “married young and now their wife is
fat and they think they are a ‘pipe hitter’ and can do whatever they
want.”

O’Brien wrote that, “I have been publicly humiliated and slut shamed
when my personal emails and intimate pictures were printed and
included in an official investigation by a Command with a personal
vendetta, hell bent on firing a tenured civil servant.” The pictures and
emails she referred to would have been included in the 15-6
investigation as evidence. However, O’Brien is also commenting on
how 7th Group maintained a good old boys club. One source with
knowledge of the scandal told SOFREP that she thinks the behavior
of these Green Berets is largely ego driven. “They think they are
better than everyone else and have never gotten caught. I think 7th
Group takes it further [than other Special Forces Groups] with
infidelity. A lot of it probably has to do with where they go, South and
Central America.”

While she was fired, other officers and senior enlisted leaders remain
in their positions. At the very worst, they are allowed to quietly retire.
O’Brien was both a victim who suffered physical abuse but also a
cunning player who aggressively sought out sexual relationships with
multiple men at her workplace and then attempted to use those
relationships as leverage. She may have broken regulations, if not the
law, but she certainly was not the only one. A small army of all-too-
willing Green Berets were right there with her.

At this time, the investigation into O’Brien and at least seven officers
involved with her continues. SOFREP filed a Freedom of Information
Act request for the multiple 15-6 investigations that have been carried
out in regards to Jenn O’Brien and her associates, but was told by
USASOC that they could probably never be released due to privacy
concerns but that their response was currently sitting with their JAG
office. USASOC also stated that they destroy 15-6 investigations after
three years, eliminating paper trails. SOFREP also contacted
USASOC’s Public Affairs Officer who said that they could not
comment on an ongoing investigation. SOFREP reached out to Dave
Bowling, Brian Rarey, and Jenn O’Brien, who did not reply to inquiries

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jack Murphy
is an eight year Army
Special Operations veteran who served as
a Sniper and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger
Battalion and as a Senior Weapons
Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in
5th Special Forces Group.
Having left the
military in 2010, he graduated from
Columbia with a BA in political science.
Murphy is the author of Reflexive Fire,
Target Deck, Direct Action, and numerous non-fiction articles about

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Weapons, Tactics, Special Operations, Terrorism, and Counter-

Terrorism. He has appeared in documentaries, national television,
and syndicated radio.

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