Jim later returned to Vietnam on a classified mission during the Easter offensive in June 1972 and left in November. Jim’s code name during his bright light missions with HEAVYHOOK was FAT CAPPER-13. In Vietnam Jim served as a Green Beret and was assigned to MACV-SOG, Command and Control North (CCN) from 1968 to November 1971, As team leader “One Zero” of RT Python, Jim Spent multiple day missions behind enemy lines recusing down pilots, running POW / MIA searches plus many missions in to Laos and North Vietnam. Jim selected infantry as his military branch and volunteered for Airborne training Ranger school and Special Forces training. Jim Join the ROTC and was later commissioned as an officer in the US Army. After graduating North Yarmouth Academy, Jim went on to Bowdoin College and University of Maine. Jim was born and raised in Portland, Maine.
