Posted on 07/03/2013 2:19:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I asked if he ever talked about it. Jason shook his head no. Did they find out anyway? “Always.”
The first time was at Fort Benning in 1994, in the middle of the hell of basic training. The ex-cop recruits in boot camp with him said that prisoners had more freedom than they did. There were guys who faked suicide attempts to get out of basic. But Everman never had any doubts. “I was 100 percent,” he told me. “If I wasn’t, there was no way I’d get through it.”
He had three drill sergeants, two of whom were sadists. Thank God it was the easygoing one who saw it. He was reading a magazine, when he slowly looked up and stared at Everman. Then the sergeant walked over, pointing to a page in the magazine. “Is this you?” It was a photo of the biggest band in the world, Nirvana. Kurt Cobain had just killed himself, and this was a story about his suicide. Next to Cobain was the band’s onetime second guitarist. A guy with long, strawberry blond curls. “Is this you?”
Everman exhaled. “Yes, Drill Sergeant.”
And that was only half of it. Jason Everman has the unique distinction of being the guy who was kicked out of Nirvana and Soundgarden, two rock bands that would sell roughly 100 million records combined. At 26, he wasn’t just Pete Best, the guy the Beatles left behind. He was Pete Best twice.
Then again, he wasn’t remotely. What Everman did afterward put him far outside the category of rock’n’roll footnote. He became an elite member of the U.S. Army Special Forces, one of those bearded guys riding around on horseback in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban.
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Really cool story.Thanks for posting.
Great find. Thanks!
AND well written.
NYT usually makes me puke.
Great story, I had no clue. Good for him
Effin cool nick.
Thanks for the post.
Thanks for posting.
You are all welcome.
If you're feeling the need to unburden your stomach contents, just read the comments after the article.
Your typical NYTimes reader is outraged that they called one of Bush's war criminals a hero.
In their world, you are a hero if you announce you're gay or apply for food stamps, not if you kill foreign enemies.
bttt
Ugh ... some good guys there, but a preponderance of braying jackasses.
Yeah, there were a few good guys commenting, but the bad ones are just jaw-droppingly dumb.
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