CONTENTS
Acknowledgements . . . iii
Prologue . . . vii
Dedication . . . ix
Glossary of Military Terms . . . x
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A Warm Sunny Afternoon . . . 1
Another Sunny Day – Decades Earlier . . . 6
The “Longest Day” . . . 19
Following Winston Churchill’s Advice . . . 29
Private Rasputin . . . 34
Stranger than Fiction . . . 41
The “Green Berets” . . . 51
The “Crazy Captain” . . . 66
Strange Happenings . . . 89
A Short Break – then – The End of SF Training . . . 106
Short-Timer . . . 117
The World of Academia – and More! . . . 139
Driving a Bus in Chicago . . . 162
The Bureau and the Communist Party, USA . . . 180
Return to Academia – then – Back to Fort Bragg . . . 192
Officer Candidate School . . . 208
“Billy Two-Names” . . . 229
The Holy Father . . . 240
The Berlin Encounter . . . 249
Vietnam – Another World Away . . . 270
The Bob Hope Christmas Show . . . 283
Brigadier General Paul F. Smith . . . 289
The Ill-Fated B-57 Canberra Bomber . . . 304
Special Forces Detachment A-102a . . . 318
Fond Memories of Aluoi . . . 345
Back in the “Good Ole USA” . . . 354
The 101st Airborne Division . . . 365
The Army Research Directorate . . . 380
The Korean Experience . . . 393
- The Battalion from Hell . . . 403
- Outfoxing the Bearded Troops . . . 409
- Commandant of the KATUSA Academy . . . 410
- Houseboys and the Korean Mafia . . . 413
- Solving a Problem with the Civilian Cooks . . . 417
- What to do with all that Extra Coffee . . . 420
- The Former Battalion Commander . . . 425
- The Generals “Walk-Through” Inspection . . . 427
- The Eighth US Army Inspector General . . . 434
- Specialist Nicky and the Baseball Game . . . 438
- A Scared GI and the Korean Mafia . . . 445
- Change of Command at the 38th . . . 450
Colonel “Jenny Wren Fea” . . . 455
Operation “Bootstrap” . . . 474
The JFK Special Warfare Center . . . 482
The European Experience . . . 497
- Christmas 1973 . . . 500
- Beuern, Germany . . . 505
- Giessen, Germany . . . 513
- The Stuttgart Connection . . . 521
- Saying Goodbye to the Town of Beuern . . . 524
- Heidelberg, Germany . . . 526
- Meeting Adolf Hitler’s Armament Minister . . . 539
- The Rest of the Story . . . 544
St. Louis, Missouri . . . 553
The Pentagon—My Final Tour . . . 560
Epilogue . . . 575
About the Author . . . 576