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kontextmaschine:

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

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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

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