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A Fresh StartChapter 56 International Relations
We dropped on Honduras at 0700 on Monday 7 September 1981. At the time, it seemed as if a combat drop would be preferable to hanging around either the battalion or Marilyn. I had made a mistake when I went into ROTC lo those many years ago. No, the Army wasn’t going into combat for quite a while. That didn’t mean I might not get deployed somewhere. The Sandinistas had taken over in Nicaragua, and were making themselves into a real pain in the rear for everybody in the region, and especially...