I was going to link up with him at one of their reunions. He was an Infantry officer in the 2/501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne.

The 2nd Battalion, 501st, while attached to the 3rd Brigade, 101st received a Presidential Unit Citation for their actions during the Battle of Hamburger Hill in May 1969; the unit's battle streamer is embroidered Dong Ap Bia Mountain. The 2nd Battalion, 501st participated in Operation Texas Star, which culminated in the Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord in July 1970. The entire 101st participated in Operation Dewey Canyon II, in support of the ARVN attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos in February–March 1971.

He was my favorite person on the board.

If I'm not mistaken, he served as an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam until he was wounded.

I said this in another thread, but I served as an infantry platoon leader in Iraq. He said several things to me over the years and was a guy I looked up to immensely. Knowing that he had dealt with some of the same issues I have and yet still lived a long life despite it all gives me a lot of hope for my ability to persevere.

He will be missed.

His forum name was the radio call sign he used when he was in Vietnam. If I remember the conversation correctly, he inherited it when he was assigned his platoon leader position.

Which is why he spent 18 months in a casualty ward. He was a platoon leader at the time after graduating from OCS. He dealt with a lot of issues.

He loved working with vets and motivated me to get out and do the same. I know he also held a special place in his heart for guys like you and me because we were fellow infantry guys. Or as he called us "graduates of Bennings' School for Boys"

RIP.

May his afterlife be truly paradise in every way.

I will miss his comments.
Salute'