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CSB:
I read his Platoon Leader article. Sounds pretty accurate for that period of the war.
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Damn, Trip Wire, you must be older than dirt!
Sigaba: I am humbled by your extensive research and detailed post.
It sounds like the late COL Jessup was a infantryman in Korea, did his duty honorably under under dangerous and difficult conditions, and like many of The Greatest Generation obtained his college degree with his GI Bill. He apparently achieved some renown as an academic and a historian. Reaching the rank of Colonel is no small achievement, regardless of branch.
I hope it was with pure heart and empty head, perhaps to impress coeds, and maybe as memories merged with his research in his dotage, that he expanded his personal oral history to include UDT/SF/Delta, etc.
His hooah biography came up in an article following his death. I sent a message to the author, lest the author continue to make a fool of himself.
As for COL Jessup:
De mortuis nil nisi bene: Speak nothing but good of the dead.