My cousin in 12th SFG
It’s not really the norm today but my cousin is a true silent professional. I grew up with him driving my church bus as a kid and his grandson was in my class so I was always around him. I didn’t even know he was in the military until I was in high school and he overheard me talking about wanting to be a Green Beret. Little did I know, he was one and rarely speaks about it. He joined the 12th simply so he wouldn’t get drafted and sent to Vietnam with a conventional unit in 1971 since the war was a lost cause at that point. He did his required time and put the Army life behind him to go back to running his roofing business. In SF he was known to be a incredibly fast runner, he could run sub 4min miles and supposedly beat a group of Olympic runners that came through Tulsa before the 1972 Olympics (just a story I was told but his grandson in my class was a State champion track star so I believe it). Here’s a interview with one of his friends Marcus Whitt with John Stryker Meyer, a MACV-SOG vet who was the CSM of 12th Group before it got deactivated https://youtu.be/FwSdP7yv4rg?si=IlVWi-hzuytE95nU