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The lineage is dicked up, IMO, because the legs that do lineages didn't take the time or bother to understand the units they were dealing with.
Again my opinion, but the 1st SSF was a Ranger Battalion. As were Merrill's etc.
Jedburgs were split As. 1/4 As. LOL
I respect the achievements of all those other units, but they are not my heritage.
OSS, JACK, SOG/SF Vietnam, right on up until today.
If it was like they say, Col. Bank would not be called the father of SF, Col. Fredrickson would.
GH is no doubt correct about the why, but IMO, they still don't have it right.
One other thing - everybody makes such a big deal out of the 1SSF being mixed Canuck and Gringo. I don't see that as such a big deal at all. Canucks been jumping the border to get into fights with us for a long time. Many thousands served in the US Army during Vietnam. Except for the French talking ones, they're just Yankees, and even the French talking ones are just Yankee Cajuns.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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