The following is an email I received this week from Dan Broughton. He expressed so many great sentiments that I thought I’d share it here.

Bill

These guys did a relatively thankless job under anarchistic conditions. They were great (if a little out of control). Maybe that was the nature of the beast. Try having to explain to Colonel Costanzo when the morning trick truck came down and Zoo Trick jumped off sounding like various anthropoids, birds and carnivores. (Thanks a lot Russell). Try to explain why one of your guys ended up on the wrong side of the Czech border. Try to explain when Charlie VanDyne was breaking up some rock with a sledgehammer at the base of the antennas and the Colonel pulled up in a vehicle. Evidently, not realizing who was on site, Charlie brandished the sledge and yelled “I am Zeus, get off of my f…ing mountain”. And, to be honest, there was the occasion when I was standing leisurely at the tube, relieving my kidneys and the Colonel, Lt. Sallabury and another officer walked by. About two minutes later, I found out the third officer was a young, female lieutenant.

When I was tapped to go to Rimbach from Bad Aibling, I was told by the Colonel there that one part of the mission was the most significant in all of Europe. You guys handled it superbly.

The one thing I would like to add is that the electronics maintenance crew was incredible and got little credit.

Some of us were a little dysfunctional but we got it done (more you then me). Thanks guys, for the experience.

I just had to post this after thirty-some years.

Dan