GREEN BERETS Waugh, William D. (Billy)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Waugh ​

• FORENAME

William D. (Billy) ​

• UNIT

1 SF Group ​

• RANK

Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

• AWARD

Silver Star ​

• PLACE

South Vietnam 1965 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 1.12.1929 Bastrop, Texas​

graduated Bastrop High School May 1947​

entered service August 1948​

US Army​

187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team April 1951​

served Korea​

10 SF Group 1954​

77 SF Group 1957​

1 SF Group 1960-65​

WIA 1965 near Bong Son, Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam​

Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. 1965-66​

5 SF Group 1966-69​

MACV-SOG (CCN - senior nco) 1970-71 (Command Sergeant Major)​

retired 1.2.1972 as Sgt Major​

US Postal Service 1972-77​

CIA (Special Activities Division) 1977​

Libya​

Kwajalein Missile Range, Marshall Islands 1980​

Khartoum, Sudan​

Afghanistan 2001​

graduated Wayland Baptist University 1987​

graduated Texas State University, San Marcos 1988​

awards include​

Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star (x4), Purple Heart (x8), Army Commendation Ribbon for Valor (x4), Army Air Medal (x14) ​

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[Flash Bang]

Billy Waugh also wrote about working with Al Qaeda operators in 1990s Yemen. That was most likely during the 1994 civil war when the USA was allied with northern forces who in turn were allied to Arab Mujahideen who'd settled in Yemen after the 1980s Afghan-Soviet War. Waugh wrote:

"I worked right there with these al-Qaeda operatives and heard these arguments [about the badness of US policy) firsthand many times, especially during an assignment in Yemen"

I was in Yemen in 1997 on a business trip to setup a new factory in Taiz (near Al Qaidah town), a sale made by our US sales agent (a 101st veteran of Hamburger Hill) who I think knew Waugh from Vietnam & the HALO training program specifically).