Colonel William “Bill” Richardson, USA (Ret.) was a master sergeant with the First Cavalry Division in Korea. Commissioned in January 1957, he served eight years with the 82nd Airborne Division, and commanded the 1st BN 325th Airborne Infantry. Richardson spent seven years with Special Forces as an A-Team leader during Operation White Star in Laos, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was the first and third commander of Project Delta in Vietnam; attended the U.S. Army War College; and commanded the First Corps Support Command for fifty months, at which time he provided the logistical support for six thousand soldiers who invaded Grenada. As his final command, he was garrison commander at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he ended his thirty-nine-year career. He is currently CEO of Richardson & Sons Construction, Inc., the vice president of the Military Ex-Prisoner of War Foundation, and the former president of the 1st Cavalry Division Association. Richardson was elected to the Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame in Fort Benning, Georgia. He and his wife, Claire, have been married for fifty-six years and have five children.

 

 

 

Kevin Maurer is an award-winning reporter who has been embedded with the 82nd Airborne Division and U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan.