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Originally Posted by PRB
I saw a CBS news deal about Col. Bob Howard today....He was the Co. Commander at McCall when I went thru training (phase I prior to SFAS being around)...toughest guy I ever met.
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I met howard in Viet Nam in 1967-68. When I first met him he was working in the arms room at FOB#2 at SOG Kontum. Later he went on missions. Also I taught phase one when Howard was in charge of Camp McCall. I was in the 7th at the time but was sent there to run the phase one for a couple of classes. Later linked up with him at Korea in 1989-1991 and we used to tell wars stories when we a had a few to many which was often. Still have an 8x10 picture of him in my china cabinet. He was harder than woodpeckers lips when he had to be but I really liked him. There was to many students in Phase class so he took them on a run with rucksacks and as they dropped out he got the class size down to the right size and sent the dropouts packing. Boy did that cause a big stink.