The blood letting was in the early 80s in the Southern Baptist Convention the liberals began to strongly push their agenda and many conservatives fell by the wayside. One of my favorite profs at SBTS Dale Moody, who had been at SBTS for more years than I had been alive, and others was forced out.
My first tour in VN I had a conversation with a Vietnamese man, my age at the time, told me he could not remember a time when his country was not at war first the French, the Japanese, the French again and finally the communists.
I worked for DOD for 25 years and I was at Irvine, El Toro MCAS, for about 4 years in the 90s.