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Originally Posted by gagners
Thanks for the link, that's some good stuff.
Had a couple of questions... ie, where did the "Vermont" come from? I know they were named for different states, snakes etc, but did the state itself have anything to do with it?
Aside from the overtly curious questions, I am also heading to a Recon company and, since the stories of what these guys (SOG) did are so impressive/inspiring, I wanted to pass some of these stories onto my soldiers and cultivate and foster some of that warrior spirit that the recon teams obviously possessed. Since we're in VT, it just kinda made sense, you know?
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The teams were named randomly as far as I can tell. CCN teams were named after states and poisonous snakes; CCC teams were states only, and CCS teams were named after tools. And yes, there were a few teams at CCC and CCN that shared the same state name, and there were several state names that weren't even used.
There's some good stuff about SOG out there in the book stores but you really have to dig for some titles. Plaster's books are easy to find and they are quite comprehensive but he did get some stuff wrong, believe it or not. Lee's book isn't what I would call a motivational read, if you get my drift. His book examines the humanity of war, or the lack thereof and really forces you to question the motives that linger. It's tough to explain... Very, very profound stuff though.
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Originally Posted by Max_Tab
Imagine that SF guy's misusing something like that. It's hard to believe.
It is nice to see SF guy's are SF guy's no matter what time frame they came from.
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I think you'd like Nick Brokhausen's book,
We Few. It's full of sarcasm, acts of larceny, breaking and entering, kidnapping, and all sorts of debauchery. All of that on top of running recon out of CCN in 1970; a great read.