Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert wanted to be a soldier so badly that he ran away at age 14 to enlist. He was caught and sent home, but except for time out to finish high school and earn a college degree, he has been a soldier ever since. And no ordinary soldier. The most decorated enlisted man of the Korean War, he toured the U.S. and Allied capitals as the Army's symbol of the Perfect Fighting Man. A picture of Herbert -face smudged with camouflage greasepaint, rifle gripped menacingly-illustrated a manual for elite Ranger trainees...
...between Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert and the U.S. Army (TIME, March 22) continues at a level of light skirmishing and enfilading fire. After repeated requests for permission to make a second appearance on the Dick Cavett Show, Combat Hero Herbert finally got an O.K. from his commanding officer, Colonel Tom Reid, five minutes before the taping was scheduled to begin eleven miles away. Cavett instead reran the earlier program, in which the Korean War's most decorated hero told of his demotion and disgrace when he reported instances of war crimes in Viet Nam. Early next morning, Herbert...
...Herbert: I think they are closed...
...Herbert: I think it is tilted...
...Herbert: Like this...