For you guys that were in the 8th SFG, I've been in contact with COL Dexter for the last couple of weeks (thanks to Razor). He was a USMA (1945) classmate of my uncle. He is well and sent me this email tonight when I told him that his name came up here:
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Pat,
Yes, I was the 8th SFG Commander from September of '69 to June of '71. It was a fantastic assignment, and I got a chance to visit SF Mobile Training Teams from the 8th in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala in Central America; Columbia, Venezuela and Ecuador in South America and the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean. Then my family and I drove back to the USA through all the Central American countries. So it was quite an adventure. Plus it was a real pleasure to be able to put in a second tour with Special Forces. (My first SF tour was with the 1st SF Group on Okinawa in 1962-64 before transferring to the 173d Abn Bde to command 2/503 Abn Inf for 9 months on Okinawa and 10 months in Vietnam.)
George
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