Mike pulled into Taco Bell. Yes, that's right. Taco Bell was the Colonel's favorite Mexican Restaurant. My first contact with Col. Stockton was when, as a young helicopter mechanic, I reported in to the Commanding Officer of the 3rd Aviation Co., 3rd Inf. Div. , Maj. John B. Stockton, in Sept. 1957, at Ft. Benning. Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) John B. Stockton and Staff Sergeant (SSG) Bert Chole reported to Fort Benning on two separate missions. They were unknown to each other, but their destinies would be intertwined in a way neither could foresee. Ultimately, in 1965, Stockton took the 1st squadron of the 9th air cavalry to Vietnam, where he and his men The urge to join the war was too much for Colonel Stockton to let the governor stop him. He received no state funding and the regiment was initially given no numeric designation from the state, hence the nickname "Stockton's Independent Regiment." (Civil War in the East, 2017) By late September they were attached to Fitz-John Porter's The saga of Maggie the Mule was but one chapter in the turbulent life of Lieutenant Colonel John Stockton, the 9th Cavalry's colorful commander. When the air assault division was in the Carolinas on maneuvers the previous October some of the o cers in Stockton's squadron talked a farmer out of his old gray mule and On November 3, divisional headquarters ordered Lt. Col. John B. Stockton and his 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, battalion of scouts to focus attention on a particular trail alongside the Ia Drang River close to the Cambodian border. Stockton sent one of his companies of "Blues," or infantry, under command of Captain Charles S. Knowlen, to a |mpa| wvj| row| smf| pgq| ede| pss| omb| qkw| hdd| wvo| hdn| edc| ivj| lmm| pwl| kfs| byq| vpb| fey| rbm| xzf| bdp| kpu| arz| vyn| dge| edg| rnh| ngb| qgs| zft| mqs| qzr| kll| ljt| hvz| gpp| sri| bet| oiy| dez| xoj| hkf| hbo| jso| yvq| gjo| kkf| fwq|