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Following military service, earned MBA from Southern Illinois University and & Doctor of Law from University of Wisconsin. Following the 1994 re-establishment of diplomatic ties with Vietnam, based largely on my business and legal background and Vietnamese Language Training at the Defense Language Institute, through the U.S. Congress funded Asia Foundation, returned to Vietnam as a Business & Legal Advisor to the Government of Vietnam. Over the now nearly 40 years since my military discharge, have returned to Southeast Asia, to include Vietnam and China, many times on business.

I served as Counterintelligence NCO (MOS 97B4L94) at Detachment B-34, Song Be, from June 69-May 70.  To possibly help fill gaps in your records, when I arrived at Song Be, the CO was “Pappy” Lamar and he was replaced by Major Aiken (from El Paso Texas – his father owned Aiken Chevrolet in El Paso), XO was Major John Nunemaker, Jim Lyons was Sergeant Major.  Also there at the time were MSG Harry Denny (his father was a dentist in Mercersburg, PA) and MSG Weber (can’t recall his first name; but, born in Germany and still had accent).  MSG Terry Gunter had been reassigned from A-343 (Dong Xoai) to B-34.  Capt. Gary Stuart was S-2 Officer early on and on his departure in late 1969 the S-2 function was led by MSG Weber.  Our Vietnamese interpreter was Tran Van Ot (sp?).  When the Detachment was handed over to the Vietnamese on May 31, 1970, Aiken, Nunemaker, Lyons, Denny, Gunter and interpreter Ot were all reassigned to other detachments.