Radio zamilkło — sztab USA był pewien najgorszego. A potem… GROM wrócił

March 2003. The KAAOT oil platform, eighteen miles off the Iraqi coast in the Persian Gulf. For forty-two seconds of absolute radio silence, JSOC liaison officer Calder Voss was convinced he had lost his entire Polish element. What came next over the radio transformed his understanding of what an ally could be. General Petelicki brought from Fort Bragg and Hereford not procedures, but a philosophy—and forged it into a unit he was building from scratch in a country without a budget, without institutional memory, and without room for error. Poland in 1990 could not afford mediocrity. And this very circumstance created something no Pentagon budget could replicate. Voss returned from that night with a conclusion his superiors found uncomfortable: the warning they had been issuing to their Eastern allies for years applied solely to their own assessment system—which had not updated with Poland. 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications - new content every week 👍 Leave a like if you think GROM isn't talked about enough 💬 Write in the comments - can a special forces culture be built from scratch or just inherited?