Talk:Pathfinder (military)

Bomber pathfinders
This page has a problem because it describes one type of military pathfinders. It does not include mentions of bomber pathfinders like the German Kampfgruppe 100 and the Pathfinder squadrons of the RAF. --Philip Baird Shearer 11:35, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:00, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

great resource found
http://books.google.com/books?id=dzNDRlEme08C&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=vietnam+pathfinder+-travel&source=web&ots=Y9pLmmfsft&sig=l8831-T0xmyuE4nBfoQQ-rFDsWM#PPA4,M1

See pages 18 and 19

Not sure about the copyright rules and all that, however - I'll leave it to a more experienced Wikipedian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.204.26 (talk) 20:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Somewhere ... after 1954 and before modern Pathfinders... Likely Vietnam
Hello all. I can't give exact details, but... I lived with my Grandfather for several years. He graduated High School in 1954, and shared the occasional story with me, of his time in The Service. Some of the things I learned, could have an impact on the information of this page. First, due to the date of his graduation, and the fact that he told me that he was in combat operations, forces me to believe he was active in Vietnam, though he has NEVER specifically stated that.

-His operations were almost exclusively classified. -EVERYONE that was in the same job duties as himself, were "de-programmed" upon leaving the service. This may be a significant reason why there is only ONE book about the Pathfinders during Vietnam; they were psych-programmed NOT to remember their training, their experiences, etc. -His brief flashes of memory usually occurred when he would see, or experience something that was similar, and he would then share that with me- it gave him someone to talk things out to. (These types of occurrences would sometimes happen during TV action shows, where some "move" was shown, but shown wrong - he would actually walk through the move with me sometimes, as something just didn't sit right with what he was seeing, and what his body knew.)

Many people boast that they were some "all that" in the military. I myself have served, and so am very familiar now, with telling the difference between the real ones and the fake. When I was 16, a man had me cornered, and threatened my life. The only way into the area, was through a gate - which that man was facing. How then, did my Grandfather end up behind the man, whispering in his ear, before anyone had seen him? I don't know, but I was there that day. My Grandfather wasn't boasting; his body just knew how to do things his mind had long forgotten... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karmana (talk • contribs) 18:22, 27 January 2013 (UTC)