JS Many thanks for your response. No matter what we did in Viet Nam we still lost. Stanley In a message dated 2/7/2013 7:44:15 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, schalestock@xxxxxxxx writes: Stanley, Some years ago, I asked a good friend of mine in the CIA to see if he could get me any information on these missions. He told me that he reached a dangerous "wall" and advised me to drop it. Which I did. If you knew what these missions involved you would understand. In today's world they would be considered political dynamite and probably prosecutable. The CIA in those days ran a lot of rouge operations,some of which involved "disappearing and "sanitizing" active duty military personnel and their records. (something they couldn't get away with today). Thus one might be "awarded" a medal but not allowed to display it. r TDY means temporary duty. In Viet Nam, First and Third Force Recon went as a unit (each a company in size.) Second Force Recon (my unit) was held back at Camp Jejune, it's members used on an as needed basis. I.E if a special operations team need a sniper or (as in my case) a radio operator for a classified mission, the men were pulled from Second Force Recon on a TDY basis. I am familiar with vanity publishing and have been approached by several publishers for this purpose. But I am against paying to have good literature published so I will but that on hold. My novella is copyrighted by the Library Of Congress. It's entitled " Dark Swans And Painted Faces" if you care to look it up. JS ____________________________________________________________ Woman is 53 But Looks 25 Mom reveals 1 simple wrinkle trick that has angered doctors... http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/5113a14fc0940214f6b2dst01vuc