Kind of confusing. The OP was attributed to Rhodes, the founder of OK. But within the OP it also published the letter by SGM Joseph Santoro.
Neither appear to have been SpecOps.
Rhodes:
Following the family tradition, Stewart joined the Army straight out of high school at age eighteen, attending Basic, AIT and Jump School at Ft. Benning, GA and then serving as a paratrooper (11B1P Airborne Infantry) stationed first at Ft. Bragg, NC and then at Ft. Lewis, WA, where he served in a long range Airborne scout company for the 9th Infantry Division until disabled in a rough terrain parachuting accident during a night jump. (jump #36!)
SGM Joseph Santoro is as you note according to all I could locate on google.
Does not diminish the message for me.
Every man who was SF who I know is a member of one of the many SFA chapters and/or the SOA. Members of both can be checked out easily. Be very suspicious of guys claiming to be SF and saying it’s classified.
SF qualified back then did not have any 11B1P’s as our enlisted MOS’s were not B series. B or bush is infantry the P is airborne qualified. S was SF qualified for enlisted and a 3 prefix for officers. An 11F4S would be your senior OPS and INTEL NCO. I had a great O&I SFC in early 69 who could and did brief a BDE CO and his S2 major.
SF qualified back then did not have any 11B1P’s as our enlisted MOS’s were not B series. B or bush is infantry the P is airborne qualified. S was SF qualified for enlisted and a 3 prefix for officers. An 11F4S would be your senior OPS and INTEL NCO. I had a great O&I SFC in early 69 who could and did brief a BDE CO and his S2 major.