This reminds me of a story I heard from a Viet Nam vet in the late 1980’s. We talked on and off about his experiences, what it was like (awful), and so on. He eventually told me that there were four vampires that occasionally worked in the area. They were a special group of soldiers that only came out at night, dressed in all black fatigue uniforms. Combat specialists, the worst of the worst, went on missions in the middle of the night, very mysterious. They didn’t eat or drink, they kept apart from the other soldiers, and so on. Scariest bunch of bastards, and everyone knew they were vampires. He could have been pulling my leg (although he wasn’t especially joke-y), or messed up (very possible), but I wonder if there could be a similar thread of military disinfo at play.
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