Posts by R.A. Jones
by R.A. Jones
Back in the fifties, the Old Army maintained an R&R center in Garmisch, Germany.
This happened on a dude ranch near Jackson, Wyoming.
Our Special Forces detachment in Germany sent two teams of free fall military parachutists to teach that skill to the Jordanian Army. I was with them.
"On one black night, ten of us lay in ambush on the fringe of a huge mangrove swamp."
"For paratroopers, hazard pay meant an extra $50 for enlisted and $100 for officers."
The U.S. divisional headquarters advisory detachment south of the Mekong had set up shop in the departed Bank of Indochina.
