After a GREAT (and long!) assignment to the Command Group of the Eighth Military Personnel Command in Korea, I was sent to the Military Science Department at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
I was promoted to Staff Sergeant shortly after my arrival.
Here my darling wife Ha-Yo assists LTC Hassett, the Professor of Military Science,
in attaching my new rank epaulets.
I truly enjoyed being on the faculty at M.I.T. Not only did I get to do a lot of interacting with our cadets as marksmanship coach of the Pershing Rifles shooting team, I actually got to teach an undergraduate seminar to the regular student body. It pleases me to think that there are perhaps 50 to 60 M.I.T. graduates out there who got their degree with 3 credits from me!
Cadets and civilians enjoyed trips to the rifle range and "playing" with M-16's and machine guns!
In my third year, the incident described in the poetry collection The Soldier and the Iron Horse (found in Grumpy-Talk 5) happened. I was out of action a full year before getting a new assignment to Fort Devens, Massachusetts.
I did return once to my old unit at M.I.T. to receive my highest decoration to date,
the Army Commendation Medal.
My Fort Devens assignment lasted only six months. Then I was sent to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. That was my last assignment!
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