Quote:
Originally Posted by CSB
Does anyone - anyone - have or know where I can find a copy
of a 1969 era recruiting pamphlet for Special Forces that
had the following features:
- photo of A Team in fatigues on the cover (spread over the foldout).
- inside was a picture of sharpened pencils, next to a list
of requirements "Apply if you are drug free...., etc"
- then there was a page of the pencils flipped to the eraser side,
with words like "Don't apply if ....".
Very effective pamphlet, at least, it worked for me.
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Looks like a mid-60s Gabe Team across 18" or so open?
There is one mounted and framed in the basement of USASOC HQs.
And the Deputy Ops Chief at USASFC(A) just got one as well.
TR
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