Colonel John B. Alexander
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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And I went back, and then I went to the Fort Campbell Jump School as an instructor.
A 20-year-old black cat yelling and saying, okay, son, son.
These kids are a little older than I am, certainly.
And the ground training NCO was Henry Slemanski,
And he was, well, his big thing, he had lived in Japan for a long period of time, as well as hanging a few of the criminals, and had become a major figure.
He was commissioner, I think, for the Western Hemisphere was the title.
And the big thing was that he had been training
But the story was that he had entered a major contest, and this was back in the day still full contact and all of that.
And, of course, a foreigner being in there was not favorable and ended up, I think, defeating 110 or 111 people.
Japanese art and really gaining their respect at the time.
I'd have to look it up.
I was just curious.
I probably have it in there.
Oh, they had to hate him.
Well, yes and no.
Of course, one of the things, like I say, respect is when he whipped their ass, you know, and got, I mean, they expected him just to be eliminated almost immediately in the thing, and it didn't happen and ended up, like I say, more than 100 bouts in a period of two days to get up there, so it's,
Yeah.
I believe it was a two-day elimination approach.
Okay, so Special Forces, I want to know... His final job, not his final job, he became a chaplain.
In the hospital, a hospital chaplain.
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