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Interesting.  I've never heard, nor even heard of, that song.

Seems a little... paranoid.

I'm far more afraid of Brits, I can assure you...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M8skx7c8Zoo

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)

When he was 18, having been twice caught riding in stolen cars, he was given the choice of going to prison or joining the army. He chose the latter, and enlisted in May 1961. He had basic training at Fort Ord, CA, then went to Fort Campbell, KY, for jump school. He completed jump school in Jan 1962 and was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. He was negligent in his duties, failed to qualify on the M14 rifle, and was found napping on duty several times. His platoon sergeant opined that he had no interest in the Army and would never make a good soldier. He received a general discharge under honorable conditions in June 1962.

He would later claim that he received a medical discharge after breaking his ankle on his 26th jump, but the Army has no record of that. For him to have jumped 26 times between January and June 1962, he would have had to be parachuting once a week. That's an incredibly busy jump schedule for a dud soldier. Airborne units typically jump about once every month or two. I suppose that somebody in his chain of command, perhaps in order to harass him out of the Army, could have taken significant time and energy to schedule him as a strap-hanger on jumps with other units. But I doubt it happened that way. He was working himself out of the Army already with his unsatisfactory duty performance.

The U.S. Army wasn't his thing. Playing the guitar was.