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My Dad, Wood Kyle, was a career Marine, serving from 1936-1968. He was Weapons Platoon Leader in Shanghai 1937-1938, Battalion Commander ½ at Guadalcanal, Tarawa &

I made it to Nam in time for the Tet Offensive and survived Con Thein and then Khe Sahn as a Plt. Cmdr.  After a brief tour of the Philadelphia Naval Hospital (3 months) I was back in Quantico.

John A. Lancaster recently retired as the executive director of the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL), the oldest disability grassroots organization run by and for people with disabilities.

After finishing TBS got married three days later and did some recruiting back at my college which was a tad exciting in 67. Went down to Pensacola for flight training,