Contents

1.  Georgia Boy: Early Influences

2.  Want to Be a Flyboy: Training with the U.S. Army Air Corps Enlisted Reserve

3.  A Soldier’s Apprenticeship: West Point, Fort Riley, Kansas, and Fort Benning, Georgia

4.  Korea: Eighth Army Ranger Company

5.  Back on Track: Convalescence, Marriage, and the Ranger Department

6.  Latin Sojourn: U.S. Army Caribbean Command and Forming the Colombian Ranger School

7.  Climbing the Army School Ladder: Infantry Advanced Course, USMAPS, and the Command and General Staff College

8.  Tenth Special Forces Group: Three-Year Idyll in Bavaria

9.  Three More Way Stations Cleared: Armed Forces Staff College, the Pentagon, and U.S. Army War College

10.  Strike Force: Battalion Command in Vietnam

11.  Tet: The Unexpected Crossover

12.  West Point: Changing Times at the Academy

13.  The Fort Carson Blues: Troubled Birth of the New Army

14.  Life in Mufti: Outward Bound, Discovery, and MicroBilt

15.  Not All Old Soldiers Fade Away: Fort Benning Redux

Afterword by General David H. Petraeus, USA (Ret.)

Acknowledgments

Index

Photographs