August 2, 2002 This is the 50th Anniversary Year of the US Army’s Special Forces (SF) and a reason to celebrate the awesome capability of this organization’s unconventional warriors. It is also the time to recognize the absolute need, when such an organization exists, to establish systematic and certain safeguards to defend against the possible […]
Category: Unconventional Warrior
PART THREE – ORDERS TO KILL
August 16, 2002 I was behind my desk at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, when we received word that President Kennedy had been shot. Yuma was where we busied ourselves testing parachutes and airdrop equipment of US and foreign origin. The news of his assassination hit us, as it did the entire nation, like a shock-wave and got […]
PART TWO — SECRET ORDERS & COMPARTMENTALIZATION
August 9, 2002 I asked to serve in what was described to me as an “unusual” airborne activity in France. I arrived at the US Army Aerial Support Center at St. Andre, a small town 60 miles southwest of Paris, on 16 May 1960, and assumed the duties of officer in charge of unconventional airborne logistical support. This […]