Author: Ski Ingram

by Ski Ingram  One thing you do a lot of in the Army is “pull guard duty.”  When I was in Basic Training, we guarded things that no one cared about just for the experience of standing guard.  When I was in AIT (Advanced Infantry...

by Ski Ingram As I walked off of the airplane the first thing, I noticed was the smell. It was like nothing I had ever smelled before.  I have no words in my vocabulary that would adequately describe the stench, except that...

by Ski Ingram It was June 1970 at Camp MacKall, (Fort Bragg North Carolina), I was in Special Forces Training with only four days until graduation, The day we would all get our Green Berets.  The last four days of training...

by Ski Ingram It was June 1970 at Camp MacKall, (Fort Bragg North Carolina), I was in Special Forces Training with only four days until graduation, The day we would all get our Green Berets.  The last four days of training...

by Ski Ingram I was drafted into the US Army on September 9, 1969, during the height of the Viet Nam war.  Every day the nightly news reported the number of KIA’s (killed in action) and WIA’s (wounded in action).  I had no...