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[QUOTE="Devildoc, post: 547956, member: 8815"]
[USER=99]@moobob[/USER] , my father died in 1977, when I was 8. My neighbor, a history teacher at the local high school, took me in as one of his own sons. Many years later he was also my history teacher and vice principal.

Anywho, he was retired army, retired in the early seventies, spent 20 out of 22 years in Special Forces.  Do the math, he was around when it was in its infancy.

Through the years he introduced me to several of his friends who had retired around Ft Bragg. None of them native Americans (not "Native American", you know what I mean).  They were all Germans, Eastern Europeans, a couple Russians.

Even when he was mentoring me in high school, he wanted me to go into Special Forces. This was mid/late 80s.  My heart was drawn elsewhere, but even then he understood that the world in Special Forces was evolving and it was not what he knew it to be.

he died a few years ago. He understood that everything changes, nothing is the way it used to be, and he was largely fine with that. But he was bemoaning the changes in Special Forces training and the direction it was going.  I think it's natural for everyone to look back and feel that way, I certainly do about the things in the Navy, but just two cents on another perspective.
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