Ep 33 | El Salvador Brigadier General Joseph S Stringham Special Forces Hall of Famer

We Fight Monsters

Be sure to read: https://arsof-history.org/articles/v3...
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Brigadier General Joseph S. Stringham retired in 1992 after serving more than 31 years in the U.S. Army. He served at all echelons of command from platoon through brigade with general purpose forces, the U.S. Army Special Forces and the U.S. Army Ranger Regiment. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Infantry, from the U.S. Military Academy in 1961, then Lt. Stringham volunteered for duty in the Republic of Korea, serving initially as executive officer and then as commander of the 7th Infantry Division’s Extended Ground Reconnaissance Detatchment, and as commander of Co. B, 1st Bn, 17th Infantry. Stringham volunteered for duty with the U.S. Army Special Forces and in April 1963 was assigned to Co A, 7th Special Forces Group (Abn), Fort Bragg, N.C. While attending the Unconventional Warfare/Staff Officers Course, Stringham was granted an early release from the school and awarded the Special Forces 3 prefix, and was assigned to Detachment A -725 then going into mission training for deployment to South Vietnam. His detachment arrived in South Vietnam in December 1963 and was deployed in a remote area in the Central Highlands as part of the Civilian Irregular Defense Group program with the Montagnard Tribes. In 1964 he returned to Fort Bragg, to the 5th SF Group (Abn) and another operational detachment preparing for deployment to South Vietnam.

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