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- Text: ..., you know, I was only eighteen, and she started handing us all these little booklets, I‘ll never forget it, ―Welcome to Scotland‖. So I got aboard the train and we‘re all reading the book about Scotland and I was looking out the window, a beautiful place. The train kept go...
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- Text: ...ield unit, we were not a field unit instead, well we did what I did, I had twenty six people that worked for me and England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and they, they, twenty six people to, two civilians and I had two veterinarians that worked for me, part of the problem wa...
Jim Southerland was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1946 and graduated high school in 1966. He joined the Army on May 19th, 1965. Southerland completed his Basic Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and then advanced infantry training at Fort Gordon, Georgia. At Fort Benning, Georgia, he also completed jump school. His first deployment was to Germany where he took part in the Nijmegen March in Holland. After reenlisting, Southerland was deployed to Vietnam with the 1st Brigade, 1st Calvary Division as an RTO (radiotelephone operator) for his platoon leader and eventually became a squad leader. He was involved in the Tet Offensive in early 1968 before his last assignment as an MOS personnel specialist in Saigon. Southerland left Vietnam in April, 1969, and left the service in May, 1969, but remained active in the Virginia National Guard.
