The Vance Report
Following the Detroit riot, former Secretary of the Army Cyrus Vance (then serving as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Concerning the Detroit Riots) prepared a study to reassess the Army’s preparedness for this new role. The Vance [...]
CIAD in the CD of OACSI at DA in DC
In November 1968, the Counterintelligence Analysis Detachment (CIAD) of the Counterintelligence Division (CD) of the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (OACSI) of the Department of the Army (DA) in the District of Columbia (DC) was [...]
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
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 never knew existed. After two months of Basic Combat Training (BCT) at Fort [...]
The Decision to Enlist
While I had no desire to be drafted, I was not adverse to military service. Both my father and brother had entered the military as volunteers. They both seemed proud to have stepped up in the service of their [...]
The Vietnam War Heats Up
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 enter the military. While the Vietnam War ended with a bang with the [...]
Family in the Military
I put the Army in my rear-view mirror at the beginning of the 1970s and got busy. It was an eventful decade. I returned to work as a lawyer, this time for the newly formed law firm of Roan, [...]
Introduction
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, Washington, D.C., and Chicago to help [...]
