AF -- that's a hoot, brother! I think they were always out there, we were just too busy doing our Man Stuff to pay attention. That was for the stay-at-home, Dr.Phil/Oprah/Jerry Springer-watching, bon-bon eating American "housewife."
Real He-Men like us were fixing carburetors, or wandering around the woods blasting some of God's creatures with a shotgun, or loading Sidewinders on F-16 missile rails, or locking-and-loading our all-too-heavy, but infinitely cool, M-60s.
We KNEW there was no problem in the world so big that it could not be solved with the proper application of, alternatively, duct tape or high explosives.