>Forty five years ago....<
Yeah, young guys ask me today when I was in I say ‘Four Wars Back’. Puzzles them for a second as they do the math or I say ‘Half-a Century Ago’ and that really gets them going.
Time, as they say, doth goeth.
Try traveling with firearms sometime. And after the Orlando airport shooting it is even more bizarre. The TSA agents tear my luggage apart looking for bad things. A suppressor really makes them inquisitive.