For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, Texas; enlistment in U.S. Army at age of fourteen; training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Ft. Benning, Georgia; deployment during Cuban Missile Crisis; discharge from Army and enlistment in U.S. Marine Corps; training at Camp Pendleton, California; deployment with 3rd Marines near border with North Vietnam; later experiences with 26th and 9th Marines; combat experiences; “search and destroy” missions; experiences as a “tunnel rat”; drug use among American soldiers; circumstances of three battlefield injuries during two tours of duty; postwar adjustment; civilian career; involvement in various veterans’ groups and volunteer work in Fort Worth.