Jimi Hendrix. 101 Airborn. Discharged for insubordination.
Jimi Hendrix. 101 Airborne. Discharged for insubordination.
So he didn’t serve honorably!!!
A lot of people think Jimi was some flower-power hippy type, nothing could have been further from the truth:
Jimi Hendrix was extremely apolitical by the standards of the 1960s, and he was more closely affiliated with the apolitical wing of the hippie counterculture than he was with the major political movements of the day. For example, as late as 1967, Hendrix was a hawk on the issue of the Vietnam War. In a 1967 interview with a Dutch magazine, Hendrix said,
“Did you send the Americans away when they landed in Normandy? That was also interference... but that was concerning your own skin. The Americans are fighting in Vietnam for a completely free world. As soon as they move out, they will be at the mercy of the communists. For that matter, the yellow danger [China] should not be underestimated. Of course, war is horrible, but at present it’s the only guarantee of peace.”