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He was sent back to Korea during the cease fire negotiations attached to the UN. He was absent for several months during the Bay of Pigs fiasco/ He spent the early sixties in Fort Ord, CA. Then our family was back to Ft Benning while he went to Vietnam as an advisor. He was wounded during this stint and quietly recieved another purple Heart. We went to Germany in the mid 60's and he was attached to the senior NCO academy....however I remember long period of weeks at a time when he would "disappear" apparently going into East Germany surreptitiously. There are gaps and redacted documents during this period of time that we cant figure out what was going on. I guess Dad was some kind of spook. LOL.

Nearing retirement he was assigned to To head up the University of Houston ROTC department in the later 60's/ While there his cadets won National Titles in both rifle team and drill team. Since there was no Army base there and dad was the ranking NCO (E-9) in the area., his other duty was to notify families that there loved ones were KIA. wounded or MIA. I remember this being a tough time around our household.

War protests were going strong and in Jan 1968 the Tet offensive was going down/ Lots of casualties and students threatening to take over the ROTC building. My dad got quite a bit of press when he addressed a crowd of protesters with a bullhorn reminding them that his cadets won the national target competition and he did have m1s with live ammunition at his disposal. The students decided to become peaceful protesters. He got called on the carpet for that but in his defense he was just giving them the facts and never threatened them. The ROTC buiulding was never threatened again tho.....