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Before I became Sir Horatio Palavicino, I was somebody else: Lieutenant Colonel Bernhardt Vernon Lind, Military Intelligence Corps, Retired. I spent 23 years in uniform serving first with the G-2 Operations staff of the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam from April 1969 to April 1970 in such scenic spots as Hue/PhuBai, the A Shau Valley, and God forsaken Thua Thien Province. In that year when I was 21 years old, I saw the elephant and will always remember the beast. In May 1991, I left active service as the Chief of Intelligence, Fourth US Army, which had a part of its mission what became known as Homeland Security for North-Central United States during the First Gulf War. In between I served in counterintelligence and tactical intelligence command and staff assignments including service on the staff of the US Army Intelligence Center and School.
My only child, Christopher Kenneth Lind, enlisted in the Army in 1989 and served four years as a Hawk Missle Radar Repair Specialist, and was honorably discharged. After completing his B.S. degree magna cum laude, he entered the Univerity of Tennessee Medical School under Army scholarship and graduated May 30, 2003 with a Medical Doctor degree, a recommissioning into the Army Medical Corps as a Captain, and a psychiatry residency assignment at Tripler Army Hospital, Honolulu,Hawaii. A father couldn't be prouder. |
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