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If only those with a CIB could be polled I can tell you we had men from all over this country in MACVSOG. ( NOT THE SOUTHERN RED NECKS THAT ARE STEREOTYPED BY THE LIBS AND HOLLYWOOD). The LIBS have painted a huge lie about the combat infantryman being disproportionately a southern boy. That is pure BS. I can tell you that out of five SF NCO’s in all, assigned to the company I was fortunate to command, only one was from the south. He was from a small town in NC. He was damn good. The other NCO’s were scattered from NJ, NE, WA and CA. The first officer I got after 4 months was from MN. The last one,I am embarrassed to say I do not know where he was from. Both 1LT’s are dead. Frankly, the NCO’s from Recon company to our Hatchet Forces were from all over. We had a damn equal distribution of this entire country. We had two damn fine black SFC’s in Recon plus many others from all over. We had very few Hispanics, but; the unit was SF and required a GT of 110 or higher. We had no dumb folks.