Thinking about how when I was a kid in the 80s-90s the Vietnam War was understood in terms of draftee line infantry or maybe...
Thinking about how when I was a kid in the 80s-90s the Vietnam War was understood in terms of draftee line infantry or maybe flight crews and now as we grow more distant and deeper into the SOCOM-first all-volunteer professional military era I increasingly see it presented as the MACV-SOG Birth of Modern Special Forces
when I was in college I got into “Everything2”, a user-written web encyclopedia that was a Slashdot-affiliated rival to Wikipedia and the Hitchhiker’s Guide-branded H2G2
One of the best and most prolific writers there was this guy “riverrun” who was telling the story of his service in ‘Nam as part of a morale-raising Army rock band called The Joint Chiefs of Staff, where their audience was expected to recognize “Joint” as a marijuana pun