Medals
and Decorations
Warfare
Specialization
Ranger
- Special Forces
Paratrooper
Airborne Division
Tours
of Duty
-
Paratrooper
Jump School
-
Ranger
School
-
325th
AIR, 82nd Airborne Division - 1954-56
-
7th
Army NCO Academy, Munich, Germany
-
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Transferred
to 10th Special Forces Group in Bad
Tolz, Germany -1957-1960
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Attended
Infantry Officers Advance course
1960-61
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Graduate
work at Cornell University 1961-63
graduating with a Masters Degree in International Relations
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Volunteered
for Vietnam 1963-64 as an advisor to
the Vietnamese Rangers
at Trunlop and
Zuc
-
Counter
Insurgency Department of the Special
Warfare School at Fort Bragg 1965-67
- later attending the Armed Forces Staff
College
-
Returned
to Vietnam where he served with the
SOG in the Ground Operations Division
in I
Corps, engaging in heavy combat - 1968-69
-
Deputy
Commander of the Ranger Department at
Fort Benning - 1970-73
-
JFK
Center at Fort Bragg - 1973 - retired
a year later
Significant
Experiences
-
As reported in
The Drop Magazine, official
publication of the Paratrooper
Airborne
Division, Don was a first rate
soldier, an intellectual with a
love for
history, and a man's
man. He was a tough,
skilled fighter and an excellent
leader. In his two tours
of Vietnam, he was wounded in
action and received
his nation's
second highest medal - The Silver
Star - for bravery and courage
in the face of overwhelming
odds.
Chinese
and Russian History at Fort Benning as
well as military tactics
and was a
valued military strategist.
by his wife, Hazel and
five children: two sons in the Army (captain
and lieutenant),
a daughter who was a
Navy Lieutenant, a married daughter
and at the time this
article was
written a daughter who was a senior at
Columbus College.
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