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A Near Disaster at Fort Bragg

David Martin

It was in 1969 or 1970, as I recall.  I had finished my active-duty military time as a lieutenant in the Transportation Corps, first doing their basic training at Fort Eustis, Virginia, and then being moved down the Peninsula a few miles to Fort Monroe in Hampton.  I had completed my active service with 13 months in Korea and had begun graduate studies in economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. I was none too happy about it, I must admit, when I discovered that the Army was not through with me.  They sent me to the office of a lawyer in Wilson, NC, an Army Reserve artillery colonel, who informed me that he would be my…

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U.S. Military Insanity, Eighth Army Style

David Martin

The editors at Covert Action magazine really outdid themselves when they found an old photograph online as the lead illustration for my article, “A Condensation of Military Incompetence.”  Although I’m sure I never saw it at the time, the sign shown in the photograph was one welcoming people to the “ASCOM AREA COMMAND” (of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea), where I was stationed. Everything about the worn sign is curious.  It’s beside a public Korean road, but it’s written in English.  Its almost exclusive audience, therefore, would be American.  And the only Americans in that vicinity were members of the U.S. Army, restricting the audience further.  None of them had their private vehicles there at the time, so the…

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