The Vance Report
1967 Federal troops during the Detroit riots 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 [...]
CIAD in the CD of OACSI at DA in DC
1969 Counterintelligence Analysis Division Office at Bailey's Crossroads 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) [...]
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
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 never [...]
The Decision to Enlist
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 [...]
The Vietnam War Heats Up
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 enter [...]
Family in the Military
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 knowledge [...]
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 [...]
