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R D Hooker Jr was a combat soldier and leader in five wars He then served as a senior Pentagon advisor and as a White House staff member in four different administrations At the time of his retirement from the military in 2010 he was the most decorated colonel in the US Army

Beginning with his enlistment at eighteen in 1975 this memoir chronicles his experiences in the postVietnam Army as a young paratrooper as a West Point cadet and as a combatant in the many military conflicts which followed Hooker served in the invasion of Grenada in the earliest days of the Somalia intervention as one of the first American responders to the Rwandan genocide with the first American units to enter both Bosnia and Kosovo in peacekeeping operations in the Sinai desert in the Pentagon on 9/11 and again in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan Rising from private to colonel he commanded a paratroop company battalion and brigade and served in the continental US Latin America Europe the Middle East Africa and Southwest Asia When not serving with troops he taught at West Point and served in several highlevel Pentagon assignments and in the White House in the administrations of George H W Bush Bill Clinton George W Bush and Donald Trump