Recommended reading.
in 1971, when i returned from OCONUS, i was approached by a "VVAW veteran", who insisted that i talk to him, as a "fellow veteran of the First Cav".
he went "slinking away" - (fyi, he SAID that he had "forgotten stuff like that")- when i pointed out that he couldn't give me his MOS & what his "job title" was/meant = for example an 11B20 is a "straight-leg infantryman", who was either a CPL or a SPEC4.
every REAL soldier KNOWS his MOS & NEVER forgets it - not in one year or 100 years!! - for example i was FIRST a 1560 (1560 is ONE of about 10 MOS's that i have qualified for over the 28+ years of total service in USA/ARNGUS/USAR. when i "hung up my badge & gun i was a 31D35.)
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as an example, until his UNtimely death in the '90s, i was "best friends with" former 1LT Joseph O. March, late of Merrill's Maurauders of WWII CBI fame. the NEAREST i ever heard Joe come to bragging about his (HEROIC & HEAVILY decorated) exploits was he said "we went through the 18th Jap army like - - - - through a goose,. not many of those boys survived our "especial" care."
fyi, that's HOW i "just knew" that "Hanoi John" was a FRAUD, a COWARD or BOTH, long before he was "Swift-Boated" by the REAL heroes.
I second that! Stolen Valor is a great book to read to understand how things happened the way they did & who was behind some of the shennanigans. Excellent book, should be read by all.