

Rambo finds himself being excluded from society. Upon his return to the United States, Rambo discovered that many American civilians beheld the soldiers returning from Vietnam with contempt and disgust, and he claimed that he and other returning soldiers were subject to humiliation, embarrassment and insults (that famous "baby killers" line). It is speculated that he was discharged as an officer. Rambo finally received his official military discharge on September 17, 1974. By his own request, Rambo was immediately re-deployed afterwards. Only Rambo and another member named Delmar managed to survive and escape captivity in May 1972 after drifting jungle and mountain for many days, if not for weeks before their eventual rescue. Rambo and some other members of the team who survived the NVA ambush were overwhelmed and captured by NVA near the Chinese-Vietnamese border and held at a POW camp, where they are imprisoned and subjected repeatedly to brutally inhumane tortures. Then, during a particular mission in November 1971, Rambo's unit came under surprise attack by North Vietnamese Army (NVA or Viet Minh). Rambo's team was coded as Bakers Team consisting of eight men. Rambo was redeployed to Vietnam in late 1969 as a member of Studies and Observations Group (SOG) brigade. Once returned, he became Green Beret, stationed in Fort Bragg and was assigned to Captain Sam Trautman. He was deployed to Vietnam in 1966, doing his one-year tour before returning in 1967. It is hinted that Rambo joined the army and became a Green Beret not because he believed in a noble cause such as patriotism, but not without much thought as it was merely another job for him, nothing more. Rambo then ran away from his father and his home altogether.Īfter dropping out of high school and drifting from one meager job to another, Rambo enlisted the army (although he keeps on saying he was drafted). One day, his father, in a drunken rage, attempted to stab his own son with a knife and Rambo was forced to shoot his father with a bow and arrow to defend himself, nearly killing the abusive drunkard. His father was a very abusive alcoholic who constantly beat Rambo. He lost his mother at an early age to cancer.

John James Rambo was born in July 6, 1947.
