Assignment to the 902nd Military Intelligence Group
Before long, assignment day arrived. Next to my name on the class roster was “902nd MI Group.” All I could find out about the 902nd was that it was an organization attached to the Office of the Assistant Chief [...]
Fort Holabird and Intelligence Training
Next Fort Holabird administration and barracks building One of the first things I noticed once I had stepped out of civilian life was that I had stepped into a world of acronyms I [...]
The Decision to Enlist
Next 1968 At O'Hare Airport on leave from Basic Combat Training While I had no desire to be drafted, I was not adverse to military service. Both my father and brother had entered [...]
The Vietnam War Heats Up
Next 1969 SDS Days of Rage Poster As I started college in the fall of 1960, I just wasn’t prescient enough to see that, like my father and brother, I also would indeed [...]
Family in the Military
Next 1917 William J. Bowe, Sr. recovering from foot amputation in Orleans France in World War I My enlisting in the Army during the Vietnam War years was in part influenced by my [...]
Introduction
Buy Book The month after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, I enlisted in the Army’s Intelligence Branch for three years. President Lyndon Johnson had just sent the Regular Army simultaneously to Baltimore, [...]
Army Days Map (1968-1971)
After Army Intelligence School training at Fort Holabird in Baltimore, I was assigned to the 902nd Military Intelligence Group. Its headquarters occupied office space above stores in a Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia, strip mall. My Counterintelligence Analysis Division work in [...]
1 Riots & Rockets Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE Riots & Rockets - Army Days (1968-1971) Riots & Rockets Army Days Map (1968-1971) Family in the Military The Vietnam War Heats Up The Decision to Enlist Fort Holabird and Intelligence Training CIAD in the CD of [...]
