![]() ![]() It certainly set the tone for what the magazine was, and who had subscribed to it throughout its history, especially in its early years. Whether this event was the catalyst for him founding SOF, or had been planned before his stake in Paladin was bought out, I can’t be sure. His shares in the firm were bought out 5 years later and he used the funds to start Soldier of Fortune, hot on the heels of the Fall of Saigon which ended the Vietnam War. An interesting figure himself, Brown was an Army intelligence officer, gun runner, and combat correspondent before settling in Boulder Colorado and co-founding Paladin Press (also a very /k/ minded, pre-internet publication I plan on covering more deeply in a later article). What is Soldier of Fortune? The Basicsįor those who don’t know what I’m talking about, Soldier of Fortune (the “journal of professional adventurers”) was a magazine first published in 1975 by Lt. So that’s what I wanted to touch on here: The lineage of culture between this periodical for bitter Vietnam vets, paramilitary larpers, weebs, and a few serious self defense/training enthusiasts doomed to inhabit the weapons board of an online Mongolian basket weaving forum until they are finally granted the sweet release of death. ![]() It seemed like every article, picture, and detail I found in the pages of SOF was like a thread, reply, or an image post from the infamous forum (if it existed in the 80’s). ![]() To be honest, I hadn’t discovered Soldier of Fortune until I first visited /k/, and even then didn’t know anything about SOF in earnest until I reached enough time on the image board for this comparison to really jump out at me. ![]()
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