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I met my future wife, Jackie, at a party only 30 days before going on leave.  I didn’t have time for a romance (do you realize how short thirty days is) but we fell in love anyway.  I went off to Vietnam where I was the commander of the 39th Scout Dog Platoon attached to the 173rd Airborne Brigade.  I was there for 13 months.  I got there right after the Tet Offensive, July 1968.  In those thirteen months, with men walking point ever day, we did not have a single man killed.  I am very very proud of that record.  We did have a tracker dog team, attached to us for support, that lost a whole team.  Our scout dogs and their handlers had the job job of alerting the unit to problems before the men confronted the enemy.  The tracker dogs team, on the other had, had to mission of regaining contact with the enemy.  They were to run a head of the advancing unit and find the enemy.  A very risky business.  We all owe them a debt of gratitude.  As for my own men, as I said, I was very proud of the men of them.  They did a superb job of saving lives.  Tomorrow, I will share a bit on what we did in within the 39th Scout Dogs to gain such an enviable record of thirteen months of combat with out the loss of a single man. 

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