Absolutely. Not suggesting there’s anything funny about it, but my point is that the magazine’s allure in areas outside of those Vietnam soldiers was piggybacki

Absolutely. Not suggesting there’s anything funny about it, but my point is that the magazine’s allure in areas outside of those Vietnam soldiers was piggybacking a broader popular culture depiction of mercanaries that - however untrue at the time - was itself very different than what one thinks of today when thinking of survivalism.