And as a reminder, SOCOM was first established as part of the Army’s bid to steal Vietnam from the CIA’s portfolio, given that the ambiguous end of Korea created a perceived danger that the Kennedy administration would favor the nuclear triad (USAF w /2 legs, USN with 1), three-letter agencies in contested territories, USMC with its established Pacific mini-empire, and leave them to fiddle with their dicks in charge of a conscript army of fuckup PR hostage/meatshields in Germany and the DMZ