Posted on 04/09/2015 12:37:49 PM PDT by lump in the melting pot
He had three drill sergeants, two of whom were sadists. Thank God it was the easygoing one who saw it. He was reading a magazine, when he slowly looked up and stared at Everman. Then the sergeant walked over, pointing to a page in the magazine. “Is this you?” It was a photo of the biggest band in the world, Nirvana. Kurt Cobain had just killed himself, and this was a story about his suicide. Next to Cobain was the band’s onetime second guitarist. A guy with long, strawberry blond curls. “Is this you?”
Everman exhaled. “Yes, Drill Sergeant.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
He truly made it into the big time, after he left rock.
of course the irony is the same people who loved him as a band member of nirvana & sound garden will now consider him a killer for hire...
Well written story. Interesting bio.
Great read. Thanks for posting.
Great read. The guy sounds humble and likes being hidden in the crowd. With regard to the Combat Infantry Medal (that he thought was so cool) I had to look it up. It fits his idea of being in a close group - but being anonymous. I’m probably missing a lot of the nuances, but it is for being a grunt that saw action. (I was thinking it was some rare award.) But I can see him liking it. He was at “the tip of the spear.”
On or after 18 September 2001: a Soldier must be an Army infantry or special forces officer (SSI 11 or 18) in the grade of Colonel or below, or an Army enlisted Soldier or warrant officer with an infantry or special forces MOS, who has satisfactorily performed duty while assigned or attached as a member of an infantry, ranger or special forces unit of brigade, regimental, or smaller size during any period such unit was engaged in active ground combat, to close with and destroy the enemy with direct fires. A Soldier must be personally present and under fire while serving in an assigned infantry or Special Forces primary duty, in a unit engaged in active ground combat, to close with and destroy the enemy with direct fires.
Kewel dude...
bump
Good story.
Same here, except it was my middle school years. I sort of remember one year 92 or 93, I saw the last GNR show (not the fake one) and Nirvana within a span of a month. My older brothers brought me to the shows.
Great article. Thank you.
That was very interesting, thanks for posting it. There is still some value in the NY Times, dwindling but not totally gone.
Bump for later
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