Central Valley High School Alumni
Shasta Lake, California (CA)
Sergeant First Class Jack R. Arnold
Central Valley High School
Class of 1968
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SERGEANT FIRST CLASS JACK R.'S PROFILE
| First Name | Sergeant First Class Jack R. |
| Last Name | Arnold |
| Graduation Year | Class of 1968 |
| Gender | Male |
| Current Location | Fort Bragg, NC |
| Hometown | The United States Army |
| Relationship Status | Single |
| About Me | The following is only a brief overview of my Military Biographical Summary, which consists of some ten pages, typed, and single-spaced. My Security Clearance at retirement was Top Secret, Special Compartmented Investigation (Code Word), as a result of a Special Background Investigation, which investigation required 18 months to perform, and followed a six month Top Secret Investigation required to perform Special Forces intelligence duties, which investigation had been adjudicated just four years previous. I have held at least a Secret Security Clearance, as was then required in order to report for Special Forces Assessment and Selection in January 1969. Rank and Paygrade at retirement: Sergeant First Class/E-7, MOSs: 18B-Special Forces Weapons Sergeant. In taking the Special Forces Battery Test in November 1968, I scored 429 out of a possible 500, where the two highest historical scores were 489, that score was achieved by Specialist Five Michael Creamer and the score of 491 was achieved by a contemporary of Michael Creamer. Both of these scores were achieved by college graduates, both of whom were straight-A students, whereas, I was not a high school graduate, even though I had successfully taken and passed the High School GED in August of 1968 at Fort Lewis, Washington. I certainly was not a straight-A student. The Special Forces Battery Test represents the most intensely mind-boggling examination that I have to this date experienced, Tuesday, 26 April 2022; 97C4S/P-a function of Foreign Offensive High-Risk Counterintelligence, Special Operations/Parachutist, and 96B4S/P-Senior Intelligence Analyst, Special Operations/Parachutist (I hated that MOS). Combat Service: Served three back-to-back tours of duty during the Viet-Nam War, arriving at the U.S. Army Replacement Detachment co-located at Cam Ranh Air Force Base on Sunday, 27 July 1969, and departing from Cam Ranh Air Force Base on Monday, 02 August 1971. In addition to which I performed Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols into Secret Base Area 602-Laos and Long Range Patrols into Secret Base Area 702-Cambodia, and, more than 50 Long Range Patrols in southern I Corps, all of II Corps, and the northern half of III Corps areas of operation in the former Republic of South Viet-Nam. I drew 15-months of Combat Pay for my deployment and duty in the Afghan War from Thursday, 18 September 2003 to Friday, 31 December 2004 (at the same time that I was serving in the Afghan War, my number two son, Sergeant Adam J. Arnold was then simultaneously, serving a 12-month deployment in the Iraq War in an overlapping time period: 2004-2005, prior to that he had deployed to Kuwait in 1998 (a 6-months long combat tour), followed by a deployment to Kosovo in 1999-2000 (a 12-months long combat tour during The Balkans States Wars of the mid to late 1990's), and he served in Korea from August 1996 to August 1997 as a 31L Combat Field Line Wireman, which is the U.S. Army's single most likely MOS which when held by a Soldier to find himself being taken out by sniper fire. A Combat Field Line Wireman is considered even among nasty ass civilians to be one of the three most dangerous professions that any man can follow, and nobody 40 or older has any business working at such a job. Soldiers, however, do not have any such option at their disposal. A Soldier's duty trumps all other considerations. My daughter's second-born son is presently serving in the U.S. Army. Two of my second-born sons are about to enlist in the U.S. Army for MOS:11B-Light Weapons Airborne Infantryman with follow-on assignments (after successful completion of Jump School) to the 75th Ranger Regiment. As to my own vanity, I invite you to read the following books: Phantom Warrior, Book One (Last Chapter) by Sergeant Gary A. Linderer; Charlie Mike, a historical novel by Colonel Leonard B. Scott; Mask In Green, Poems of Viet-Nam, a Masters Thesis, 1991, Department of English, BYU Press, by Lisa M. Williams; and, last of all there is the Ballad "I Can't Always Be Nice", composed and put to music by Master Sergeant Mark Crawford. Enlisted, Friday afternoon, 09 August 1968 and Retired, Sunday, 04 July 2010. Units with which I served are: the173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate); Co. C (Ranger-LRP) 75th Infantry (Airborne), First Field Forces, Viet-Nam. While serving with Charlie Rangers the Company was attached to the 2nd Mobile Strike Force Command (Airborne), the 5th Special Forces Group, (Airborne), and also performed duty as a compartmented Special Augmentation Unit, performing missions for MACV-SOG's, Joint Personnel Recovery Center, also performed duty as a compartmented Special Augmentation Unit for the MACV J-2 Civil Operations Revolutionary Development, Support, aka The Phoenix Program performing rendition operations among the senior political and military leadership of the Viet-Cong Infrastructure; Scout Platoon (flying LOH's, pronounced Loach in the left seat co-pilot position-Observer/Gunner) with B Troop, 7th Squadron (Air), 17th Cavalry, 17th Aviation Group (Combat); Co. N (Ranger-LRP) 75th Infantry (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate). November Rangers also performed duty as a compartmented Special Augmentation Unit for both MACV-SOG's Joint Personnel Recovery Center and executed sanctions for the J-2, Civil Operations Revolutionary Development, Support, aka the Phoenix Program. That which distinguishes Long Range Patrol operations from Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol operations is that the former predominantly executes Hunter-Killer-POW Snatch missions, and, the latter performs deep reconnaissance, surveillance, photographic (even filming), wire-tap, and bomb damage assessment missions, all of which when doing your damnest to avoid being detected by enemy observation, and by so doing, avoiding direct combat, which would result in mission compromise-mission abort; 82nd Pathfinder Detachment, 82nd Airborne Division; Infantry Drill Sergeant at Fort Polk, La. and Fort Benning, Ga.; Pathfinder Instructor at Jump School; performed Nuclear Surety Duty in the Central European Theatre of Operations as the Reconnaissance Platoon Leader, occupying a First Lieutenant/O2 paragraph and line number by TO&E; although, I was then a junior Staff Sergeant/E-6 replacing a very senior Master Sergeant/E-8 with the 2nd Battalion, 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment providing security for the Mobile Nuclear Batteries of the 56th Field Artillery Brigade (Pershing One-Tactical Nuclear Missile Artillery), 7th (U.S.) Army. Ranger Instructor with Special Forces Detachment (Airborne) Europe, peace time mission was to train U.S. and British Army Soldiers how to conduct guerilla operations behind advancing Soviet Warsaw Pact Forces, wartime mission was to conduct, on order, strategic ground reconnaissance; 1st SF Battalion,10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), the 1st SF Battalion was the first and original Special Forces unit to be activated in the U.S. Army. In my assignment with the 1st SF Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), I served as the Escape and Evasion Operations Sergeant for the Central European Theatre of Operations. Both Special Forces Detachment (Airborne) Europe, and the 1st SF Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) were co-located at Flink Kaserne at Bad Tolz (Tolz should have an umlaut ".." above the letter o), Germany with Camp Worden as an attached cantonment (Flint Kaserne was originally Das Oberkommando Der Waffen SS-Junkerschule fur (the term fur should come equipped with an umlaut ".." above the letter u) SS officiers und SS staubfeldwebbles (NCOs). My U.S. Air Force counterpart was a full Colonel/O-6, he operated at Special Operations Command, Europe located at USEURCOM at Patch Barracks, Germany (this is not unique in U.S. Army Special Forces, my rank and paygrade at that time was Staff Sergeant/E-6). This disparity in rank, though, to be sure, was and is pretty annoying to commissioned officers, and this only serves to illustrate the level of confidence and trust placed in Special Forces and Ranger Regiment NCOs; Platoon Sergeant in both the 43rd and 44th Airborne Training Companies, 4th Student Battalion (Airborne) at Jump School; 531st MID (SF Grp) (Airborne), this unit was one of two Strategic Special Operations Intelligence Detachments; Headquarters, 75th Ranger Regiment, RS2-Intelligence (I served on the Intelligence Staff as the subject matter expert on all matters pertaining to Soviet/Russian Spetsialnogoa-naznachenya (Spetznaz), wherever Spetznas were found to be operating worldwide (Special Forces, at least in the U.S. Army typically does not find itself charged with hunting down and terminating enemy special forces, this mission is historically performed by U.S. Army Ranger units), and, RS5-Contingency Planning and Operations; G-2 Senior Staff Advisor and Subject Matter Expert to the Commanding General, VII (U.S.) Corps on all matters pertaining to Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol and Long Range Surveillance Operations; served as the U.S. Army Sergeant Major for U.S. military personnel and, as the Senior U.S. Army instructor in the Patrol Division of the International Wing at the NATO Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School at Weingarten, Germany. The mission was to train the reconnaissance and Special Forces of the European armies in deep penetration and surveillance operations, and as and when possible, rendition operations targeting general officers and senior field grade Soviet and Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact officers (full Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels). Reported to Colour Sergeant David K. Hadlow, Royal Marine Commando, Special Boat Squadron (SBS), and both of us reported to Leftenant Colonel Derek Dale, 22 SAS Regiment, Commanding Officer, International Wing (actually Wing Commander, RAF Regiment and seconded to the 22 SAS Regiment. Leftenant Colonel Dale was in fact SAS Badged). I was Wounded in Action x 9 separate times, beyond that I suffered with Malaria, Dengue Fever, Amoebic Dysentery, Intestinal Parasitizes, and with Fevers of Unknown Origin x 5 times. Above and beyond this I underwent 6 major surgeries having sustained an internal decapitation on my 600th static-line jump, but I still continued to make jumps-full combat equipment night jumps, and besides that I went to war once again. Also, I fell 120 feet from a hovering UH-1H Helicopter, immediately after which, I picked myself up, straightened out the meddle frame of my rucksack, shouldered my 75-pound ruck and charlie miked. As to personal matters, I 'am the father of two sons and one daughter (in any event that is the number of children on the official morning report, and that's my story and I 'am sticking to it). I 'am also the Grandfather of ten Grandsons and two Granddaughters. About marriage: I was in prison for fourteen years, then I got paroled (whether for good or bad behavior, I cannot actually say for certain). Nevertheless, and notwithstanding that parole, I was, by the Grace of God released from the shackles and manacles of that unfortunate period of time, effective date: Wednesday, 18 January 1984.The fact is that women just cost too damn much money, and, can a man ever really trust a woman? I fear not. If I really need a woman, If I Really Need A Woman, I can take leave and fly space available (a retirement benefit) to Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid, Athens, Rome, to all of the places that I very much like. European women are so much easier to deal with; they just simply do not behave themselves like American women. My family, which means my children and their children-We are Regular United States Army, By the Grace of God. And yes, we vote a straight Republican ticket. Hooah, Hooah. Before I sign off here I 'am compelled to mention six important teachers in my young academic career: Mrs. Horn in the first-grade,1956, Mrs. Bailey in the second-grade,1957, and Mrs. Brady in the third-grade,1958, these three teachers taught me my alphabet, printing, cursive, how to read, arithmetic and the importance of spelling, Mr. Conrade, my seventh and eighth grade teacher who taught me the mechanics of the English Language and the rudiments of the Spanish Language, 1963-1965, my eight-grade teacher who taught the U.S. Constitution, 1965 (I owe that teacher so much, and yet, I can't for the life of me remember his name, although he taught at Central Valley Intermediate School, and, finally Lieutenant Colonel Holbein who taught English 101 at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Citadel Station, Charleston, SC, 1981. Colonel Holbein taught me how to write the 300-word and 500-word thesis, and the importance of correct spelling-that there is no excuse for a misspelled word, ever. As for high school, high school was not at all high, it was pretty damn low, both academically and intellectually. It was a waste of the mandatory taxes levied against the California citizen, who has no voice or choice in the matter of taxation for schools. I thank God that my children went to school in Department of the Army Dependent Schools. A school system where the Commanding General of each U.S. Army Post holds a child's Soldier father accountable for the behavior of his dependent children in all respects, in all places, at all times. /signed/ Very Respectfully, Jack R. Arnold, SFC, ...(read more) |
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