Quiet Professional Soldiers

[Pete]

Just a thought here on a rainy day.

In the Special Operations family SF has had thousands of people who have served all the way from the 1950s to this day. Some spent years in conventional forces before "seeing the light" and coming over to the dark side. Others enlisted for it as an option. Some served one tour and got out while others spent all their years in SF related assignments.

Through it all there has been very little "talk" about what we do. Sure there was JW's movie and a book here and there. There even was the dust-up over Tail Wind. We even have a character or two in jail around the world. But all-in-all our life is a closed book with few seeing more than a page or two. The people who served have seen a few chapters but it's a thick book.

The people you serve with, the places you go, the things you do are generally known to only a few. And it is the people you serve with that makes it all worth while. A long line of smiling faces in odd places, forever young as you flip through your memories.

Pete
Except when we're in a bar with our buddies, then it's anything but quiet.