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To: Robert357

When I was a kid in grade school in the 70’s, in Western lower Michigan a friend’s dad had a local gun shop. He said a guy in the area bought some higher end military rifles etc there. He was a Vietnam vet and did mercenary work in Rhodesia and elsewhere that would hire him. The local paper did a fairly sympathetic article about him. He described his former military service and how he wanted to keep fighting communism wherever it was trying to take root.


13 posted on 07/12/2023 4:28:41 PM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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To: desertsolitaire
This guy’s wife was my Sunday school teacher when I was in elementary/middle school.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_WerBell_III

Werbell was OSS in WWII

My dad and I got invited to sight in our hunting rifles on his personal range (back in around 1973) a few times. You can read his bio. I got to listen to him tell quite a few stories, one in particular about a mission to dispatch Che Guevara.

In high school, I part time worked in his sons retail business, Brigade Quartermaster.

17 posted on 07/12/2023 5:41:29 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: desertsolitaire

Solder of Fortune Magazine use to have advertisements for such people. I don’t know if that magazine still exists or not. If it or its equivalent does exist, it is probably a website and not in the English Language.


24 posted on 07/13/2023 12:07:54 AM PDT by Robert357
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