Truth and Justice - This is my war
Preface
From December 11th through the 13th, the Atlacatl Immediate Reaction Battalion carried out the most heinous slaughter in modern Latin American history. The 40th anniversary of this war crime will be remembered in just a few short weeks.
On November 16, 2021, an unsolicited email between Sergeant Major (ret) Walter Cargile and Mr. Bruce Hazelwood, also a retired "Green Beret", arrived in my Inbox.
It was sent as a taunt.
Mr. Cargile's reasons for providing me with this communication were not given. He simply wrote "Hey Gregg Walker for your FYI".
Who is Walter Cargile? In his email Mr. Hazelwood describes the retired career soldier as being well regarded by the "El Mozote Group" which Hazelwood is closely affiliated with. Both men served in El Salvador during its ten-year civil war. They are close friends and, possibly, business associates to this day.
Cargile is no stranger to controversy. In October 1984, he was mentioned in this UPI story.
"U.S. Army Col. James Steele and two other American soldiers, Marine Lt. Col. David Blizzard and U.S. Sgt. Maj. Walter Cargile, traveled to Perquin, the unofficial capital of rebel-controlled northern Morazan province, during a major army sweep into the area, said a U.S. Embassy official, who asked not to be identified."
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/10/19/US-soldiers-in-war-zone/5494467006400/
In a follow-on article by Bradley Graham and Douglas Farah for the Washington Post in May 1996, Cargile reinforced the reality of the war for U.S. advisers. "No place was what you might call safe," said Walt Cargile, a retired Special Forces sergeant major who served off and on in El Salvador between 1982 and 1990. "If you were going out on a training mission, you might get ambushed. That happened to me several times."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/05/27/with-honors-bestowed-us-veterans-of-salvadoran-war-lift-their-silence/592b84ab-ff4c-4d74-808b-3e1f95405850/
During the early-1990s Brigadier General (ret) Joe Stringham, Walter Cargile, Rob Krott (a former war correspondent for Soldier of Fortune magazine), and I were preparing to go to Angola on behalf of AirScan. An initial pre-mission planning session of several days duration took place in Fayetteville, North Carolina. A few weeks later our group met again to continue planning, this time with AirScan in Florida.
A series of delays pushed back our launch date. During the lull I was offered a law enforcement position with the Astoria Police Department in Astoria, Oregon. I pulled off the AirScan contract and accepted the LE offer. Not long afterward the other three deployed to Angola for several months. I would retire from law enforcement after reaching detective rank in 2005.
"...the company was active in Angola, providing aerial surveillance operations to oil companies. AirScan’s mission is to patrol oil pipelines and installations to detect and counter guerilla activity by the secessionist Front for the Liberation of Cabinda (FLEC) and by UNITA forces.
"AirScan’s commander in Angola was U.S. Brigadier General Joe Stringham, a decorated Special Forces veteran who commanded U.S. military advisors engaged in the unacknowledged war in El Salvador."
https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/a-spy-inc-no-stranger-to-controversy/
In 2004, Rob Krott and I linked back up, this time in Baghdad, Iraq. Krott had taken a contractor job with MVM teaching small arms skills to Iraqi soldiers and I was the senior project manager for the Kurdish-owned private security firm, Falcon of Iraq. We chatted about Krott's adventures in Angola on several occasions.
At this year's SOAR reunion in Las Vegas, General Stringham and I spoke briefly. The last time we'd seen each other had been in May 1995 while in Washington, DC, filming a "60 Minutes" segment with Mr. Ed Bradley regarding combat recognition for the U.S. service members who served in El Salvador.
General Stringham, who was a critical Voice during our combat recognition campaign, oversaw the June 13, 1998 El Salvador Awards Ceremony at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
"It had been determined this was not a combat zone, and they were going to hold the line on that," said Joseph Stringham, a retired one-star Army general who commanded U.S. military forces in El Salvador in 1983 and 1984. "I've puzzled over why. It may be something as fundamental as the bureaucracy not wanting to reverse itself."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/05/06/public-honors-for-secret-combat/f764f45e-1b75-4e8c-8c32-94844434d5e0/
Also attending was Brigadier General (ret) David Morris. While a young captain it was Dave whose composite Special Forces team had trained the first generation of the Atlacatl Battalion. Together we had spent over four years assisting Professor Terry Karl as she worked diligently to provide the judge charged with determining if, indeed, a war crime at El Mozote had occurred and if so who was responsible.
General Morris and I spent some reunion time discussing that effort. We'd both moved on after the pre-trial testimonies were heard in El Salvador. The surprise confirmation made by one of the defendants, Air Force general Juan Rafael Bustillo, that the Army / Atlacatl had indeed conducted a massacre at El Mozote had been a key moment. It was not long afterward that President Nayib Bukele reversed his campaign promise to see Justice done if elected.
That had been months ago. I had not been in contact with Professor Karl nor a number of other key figures. I'd fulfilled my professional responsibility to the U.S. ICE war crimes unit as well as the Dutch Prosecutor's Office in Holland. That we'd been successful in seeing one of the "El Mozote Group" break ranks and admit in open court the massacre so long denied had indeed occurred was enough, at least for me.
Then, out of nowhere and for no legitimate reason came Walter Cargile's email. My response is presented along with his original message at the conclusion of this article. Please note Mr. Cargile has since offered his email account had been "hacked". Given the content and implications of Allan Hazelwood's note to him and his sharing it as he did with not only me but a laundry list of others...I suppose one lie is as good as another.
Greg Walker (ret), November 21, 2021
"The El Mozote Group" - Only one accepted responsibility
"El Mozote, El Salvador?– Juan Antonio Pereira knows who killed his wife and children. But nearly four decades later, the men responsible continue to walk free...Pereira, recalling the event 37 years later, said from where he hid, he saw the soldiers murder his wife Natalia, their 10-year-old son Mario and 14-year-old daughter Maria. Fourteen of Pereira’s family members were shot dead that day, including his mother and both brothers.
"Nearly 1,000 people – mostly women and children – were killed in the nearby El Mozote and the surrounding towns from December 11 to 13, 1981 in what has been deemed one of the worst massacres in modern Latin American history.
“It hurts my soul still to remember it,” Pereira, now 80 years old, told Al Jazeera while sitting in his niece Sofia’s house in El Mozote. They are two of a small group of remaining survivors of the Pereira family."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/11/el-mozote-massacre-waiting-for-justice-nearly-40-years-later
"A retired Salvadoran general on Friday acknowledged for the first time that the armed forces were responsible for a notorious 1981 massacre of more than 1,000 people during the country’s civil war.
“War sometimes gives rise to something in the minds of people that attaches no value to the lives of others. I think it was on his initiative (Monterrosa’s),” Bustillo said.
“That’s my reasoning, it was on his initiative that he gave the order to kill the people of El Mozote, and the other surrounding cantons,” the retired general told the court."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-elsalvador-massacre/salvadoran-general-admits-army-carried-out-infamous-1981-massacre-idUSKBN1ZN2MJ
"Why Did They Have to Kill the Children?"
Maj. Natividad de Jesús Cáceres Cabrera, second in command of the Atlacatl Immediate Reaction Battalion, was frustrated.?He’d just ordered the men under his command to begin killing the children of El Mozote.?They’d shown little hesitation in the killing of adult and elderly men in the village, and no hesitation at all in leading away the young girls, most between 12–to–15, whom they gang-raped, then butchered.
But the children, the?ninos and ninas, they were now a problem.?Major Cabrera was a true believer. The only good communist was a dead communist.?And one dead communist child was one less future communist guerrilla the Salvadoran Army would have to fight.
El Mozote was a?limpieza?operation—a “cleaning up” of the communist guerrilla presence and control in the Department of Morazán.?The Atlacatl Battalion was newly reformed and devoid of responsible American Special Forces combat advisers. Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa, the battalion commander, was going to fight the guerrilla armies of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)—one of the two primary political parties in El Salvador—his way.
Atlacatl was to be the?Einsatzgruppen.?Just like the Like the Nazi “deployment units” raised by Heinrich Himmler—the founder and overall commander of the SS during World War II—the Atlacatl was the mobile killing unit of the Salvadoran High Command.?Special tasks included the execution of communist party functionaries, FMLN and Catholic church officials, and FMLN political officers; as well as men, women, and children in those areas the military command deemed under the control of the guerrillas.
A crime against all humanity is today being reburied by President Bukele and the Salvadoran Military
An accounting by a court of law for he December 1981 slaughter at El Mozote and its surrounding smaller?caserios, or hamlets, of well over 900 men, women, the elderly, children, and infants by the American financed, armed, and trained Atlacatl Immediate Action Battalion (BIRI) will now, as likely as not, ever take place. Reversing his original campaign promise to hold those accountable President Nayib Bukele today offers the most heinous deliberate extermination of his own countrymen in all of Latin America is now merely an exploitation, indeed a distraction by his political opponents and outside forces to undermine his efforts to move El Salvador away from its sad and grisly past.
Born in 1981, the year Operation "Rescate" was envisioned, planned, and conducted, El Salvador's young president is intimately cognizant of the horrors visited upon El Mozote. He visited and met with its children on last year's anniversary of the holocaust unleashed against the people of northern Morazan by the Salvadoran Armed Forces he now relies upon as a political partner.
If President Bukele is a nationalist, and he is; if he is an authoritarian, and he is; if he feels he has no time to waste at this pivotal point in Salvadoran political, economic, and social history, and he doesn't...
Then perhaps the carnage of a 10-year civil war now long ended is best left laid to rest. This given Bukele's ongoing dismantling of the Salvadoran judicial system and his terrorizing of those remaining judges by using the Salvadoran military and intelligence service. Still, the Salvadoran People demand Justice.
"Survivors of the?largest single massacre ?in modern Latin American history recently?asked ?the country’s Prosecutor General to charge President Nayib Bukele and Defense Minister René Merino Monroy with arbitrary acts, dereliction of duty, and failure to comply with a judicial order for?refusing ?to allow the judge in the case to have access to military archives from the period. The roadblocks in the decades-long search for justice in the infamous El Mozote massacre reflect a larger pattern of?increasing authoritarian actions ?by Bukele that have prompted unusual criticism of his regime,?even from the United States ."
https://www.justsecurity.org/73089/on-el-salvadors-1981-el-mozote-massacre-president-bukele-sides-with-impunity/
Bitcoins, money-laundering, and sweet cocaine
"To boost Bitcoin adoption, President Bukele has promised to build the necessary infrastructure. This includes 1,500 Bitcoin ATMs and a government wallet meant to guarantee instant conversions of Bitcoin into dollars."
-?https://cointelegraph.com/news/inside-el-salvador-s-bitcoin-experiment-cointelegraph-video-report
But critics point out the ease of which Bitcoin transactions are used for international money-laundering as well as financing the illegal drug trade that has used El Salvador for decades as a transit point for cocaine and other drugs destined for the streets of America and elsewhere.
700 Kilos of Cocaine from El Salvador - https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2021/10/28/700-kilos-of-cocaine-seized-in-spains-valencia/
The 10-year civil war in El Salvador was an armed conflict settled by resolution and not the unconditional surrender of either side. There was no winner or loser as seen at the conclusion of World War Two. In fact, since WW2 the vast majority of wars, and specifically those titled as "small wars", have been resolved by a political consensus to bring hostilities to an amenable conclusion. Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War, and El Salvador fall into this category of "peace with honor". Most recently, the United States has continued this conflict resolution model with its recent withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan and Iraq after over two decades of its blood and treasure being squandered under the tattered banner of nation-building.
What is true and right?
Dr. Todd Greentree served as a junior political officer for the U.S. State Department in El Salvador. He is intimately familiar with the massacre at El Mozote. Today, Dr. Greentree believes in a reasonably well-founded, if partial and less than popular, claim on what is true and right given the current political and socio-economic situation in El Salvador.
"I strongly believe," Dr. Greentree recently shared with me, "that?jus post bellum?should be legitimized as a forth component of Just War and codified in international humanitarian law.?Although it is too late for an alternative course of action, it is possible to envision a viable if difficult political-judicial-diplomatic path that could square this circle and head off damaging political intervention.”
Greentree goes on to say “First, the Government of El Salvador, with financial assistance from the United States, should offer generous compensation to each of the victims of El Mozote and their family members.?Second, the victims should publicly acknowledge this restitution, and in exchange, the former commanders, along with the government, should express deep regret for the tragedy and for their suffering.”
The 1992 Chapultepec Accords
The UN sponsored Chapultepec Accords required five long years of negotiations between all Parties to bring the Salvadoran civil war to an end. Instrumental in those negotiations was an inclusive amnesty clause. This clause benefited both the guerrilla forces of the Marxist FMLN and El Salvador's security forces, each responsible for numerous murders, massacres, and atrocities during the war. "I believe that prosecuting officers who benefited from an amnesty declared in good faith as part of an internationally recognized peace agreement that definitely ended a bloody, messy war is a disservice to higher justice," offers Greentree today.
"It was a long time ago." - Dr. Todd Greentree - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1zcxucVLHk
Greentree believes that?jus post bellum?should be codified as a legitimate component of the Just War doctrine in international humanitarian law. In essence,?jus post bellum?is this. "Jus post bellum is?the body of laws, norms, and principles?that apply during the transition from war to peace. It provides relational cohesion to its underlying laws and norms, and a basis for assigning responsibility for post-conflict obligations" - Jennifer Easterday, "What is Jus Post Bellum?"
The 2016 decision by the Salvadoran Supreme Court to throw out the general amnesty for alleged war criminals from both sides of the conflict led to the El Mozote massacre being the first case to begin proceedings. The Court was recently fired?en toto?by President Bukele, is seen by many as a serious and misguided error that may have been spun to promote human rights and a form of "truth finding" but to date has produced only new pain and renewed discord. "At best," says Greentree today, [a trial] can deliver symbolic justice, even if these old men are sent to jail."
And what do Salvadorans want?
"Yet while Bukele’s heavy hand drew rebuke from the likes of?Human Rights Watch ?and media watchdogs, most El Salvadorans applauded. So strenuously, in fact, that his allies are poised to capture a majority — perhaps even a supermajority — in the Feb. 28 legislative election. Securing two-thirds of congressional seats would allow Bukele to name Supreme Court judges and the attorney general, making him the most powerful Salvadoran leader since the return of democracy three decades ago. “This is a once in a generation sort of clout,” says Giancarlo Morelli, an analyst with the Economist Intelligence Unit."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-25/el-salvador-swoons-for-hardline-president-nayib-bukele, February 2021
Final thoughts from Dr. Todd Greentree
"...[the] victims of El Mozote still live as ghosts among us. I am certain of only two things: Some truths will never be known, and other "truths" are phantoms. Memory is always a tricky thing, all the more so at a distance of decades...
"As the first U.S. trained & equipped Immediate Reaction Battalion, Atlacatl was under a microscope. Worse, shortly after they went out on their first big operation [Rescate] and committed El Mozote, [President] Reagan was due to certify to Congress that the ESAF was taking measures to improve human rights...
"If the [U.S.] Embassy had unequivocally verified the massacre and U.S. officials had testified that the military was responsible, Congress would have had to cut aid, even though they knew perfectly well it would have meant game over."
A most puzzling email
walter cargile?<wjcargile2001@yahoo.>
Tue, Nov 16, 10:40 AM (5 days ago)
to?me,?
领英推荐
Hey Gregg Walker for your FYI
----- Forwarded Message -----
From:?"Allen Hazlewood" <hazlewood91@msn >
To:?"Cargile" <wjcargile2001@yahoo >
Sent:?Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 1:03 PM
Subject:?RE: Checking In
Walter,
How you are doing buddy. We have not spoken for a while. I now live in El Salvador/Guatemala full time. Do not know if you keep up with news from El Salvador but Bukele is still doing an amazing job. The U.S. Embassy looks and acts like a bunch of jerks. Also, recent events on several cases you are aware of have come out very good/favorable for some of our friends.
Two incidents where I was falsely linked by?Gregory Walker?was the 1981 incident at El Mozote and the Dutch journalist’s incident in 1982. However, because of Walker’s untrue information being fed to numerous people coupled with subsequent false testimony by an “expert witness” (Terry Karl) probably has resulted in the El Mozote Case never coming to trial.?U.S. Government Hid Presence of U.S. Advisor in El Mozote Massacre, Expert Says - ElFaro.net
Making it more unlikely the judge (Guzman) presiding over the El Mozote case was forced to retire. Even the current President of El Salvador (President Bukele) has spoken out against those people like Karl and Walker who fabricated and repeated false information about El Mozote along with numerous human rights groups who have used the case for economic gain. Guzman is not the only judge overseeing an important trial to be removed. The judge overseeing the case of the 1982 deadly shooting of four Dutch journalists which I was also falsely linked has been forced to retire.
The El Mozote group (which continuously acknowledges your almost five years of contributions in El Salvador) would like to thank Greg Walker and others for spreading false information that bought into question all of Karl’s previous testimony. Makes you wonder if it was not all planned to come out this way.
Anyhow, you are the best and keep moving towards the target.
?
Regards,
?
Bruce
My sole response to Mr. Cargile
Gregory Walker?<[email protected]>
Tue, Nov 16, 10:51 AM (5 days ago)
to?walter
Walter -?
Grow up.
Always respectfully,
Greg Walker (ret)
Followed on November 17, 2021 with this -
Gregory Walker?<walkergrega@gmail>
Nov 17, 2021, 1:23 AM (4 days ago)
to?tkarl,?JStringham,?Djkulich, DMorris,?me, (and those whom Mr. Cargile originally CC'd in his forwarded message)
"All -
"I enjoyed seeing / talking with General Stringham at this year's SOAR reunion two weeks ago.
"I also enjoyed seeing and visiting with Spider and Frank Medina.
"GEN Stringham asked about the chitter-chatter between Walter and Hazelwood. I shared that MG (ret) Dave Morris, who was also asked to assist in the pre-trial investigation regarding El Mozote for Judge Guzman, was likewise attending the reunion.?
"And Dave would be happy to answer any questions Joe might have on the subject.
"I believe Joe determined it would not be necessary.?This, after he learned my involvement was requested by the Dutch War Crimes Unit through the U.S. ICE War Crimes Unit.?And he was not aware I am a retired law enforcement officer...with all that means when one is contacted by both the international and national law enforcement agencies for the reasons noted.??
"Dave Morris and I talked during the banquet and he offered GEN Stringham never brought the subject up to him.
"General Stringham understands those relationships and professional responsibilities whereas Mr. Hazelwood?and Walter (apparently) do not.
"And as I informed BH some time ago further rhetoric from him - given the seriousness of the crimes still being investigated - would be shared with both ICE and the Dutch.?Since that communication I have not heard from him.
"Seeking to intimidate or tamper, intentionally or otherwise, with witnesses is considered...unwise.
"In short, Walter's email?was not well thought out. I have my doubts BH imagined his note to Walter would be forwarded to all of you as well as me.?Again, unwise.
"That said -??
"If you haven't seen the current documentary on the El Mozote massacre and the efforts to derail the trial by Bukele you might watch it at this link.
Massacre in El Salvador?-?https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/massacre-in-el-salvador/
"And the Dutch documentary now several years old - which attempted to interview him when he lived in Florida.
In Cold Blood?-?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY5tQ593g-k&t=2118s
"It is shameful to see President Bukele becoming the dictator he now is. To include dismantling El Salvador's judicial system and processes in favor sustaining himself in power - including breaking his campaign promise to the Salvadoran People -?trading Justice for the victims of both war crimes...and those identified war crimes committed by the FMLN...for the continued support from the Salvadoran military and the FMLN, the political party he came from until even they threw him out.
Former FMLN politician goes silent?-?https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/el-salvador-activists-outcry-bukeles-silence-over-el-mozote---20200924-0011.html
"That said -
"SFA Chapter 78 published a two-part series on our war in El Salvador.?If you have not read it I have attached Parts 1 & 2.?It is now an official chapter in Special Forces Regimental history and is on file with our Command Historian and U.S.?SOCOM in Tampa.
"As well as a review of this year's SOAR for those who could not attend.?In 2013, thanks to MG (ret) Bargewell those who served in El Salvador during the war are now eligible to join the Special Operations Association,?MG Bargewell's comments on this can be found in the article.??
"If you are interested, the link to the SOA application process is provided in the article.
"In closing, please note the below regarding a relentless international researcher and expert in trans-generational war crimes and those who commit them, Professor Terry Karl.?I believe our teammate and former ambassador to El Salvador, Ron Johnson (who is Cc'd with this, as well), would agree.
"Terry Lynn Karl is the Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies, Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Studies at Stanford University. She previously served as the Director of the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies. Her research on Latin America focuses on human rights, democratization, economic development, and the effects of U.S. foreign policy. She is the author of numerous books and articles. In conjunction with her scholarly research, she conducted many field research missions to El Salvador. She interviewed people from all sides, including the Left, members of the Christian Democratic Party, other political parties, the Right, the military and the security forces. She also interviewed death squad members."
"Unlike BH, Professor Karl does not seek or benefit from a cozy relationship with President Bukele nor those Salvadoran senior officers whose names and documented actions at El Mozote and at the 4th BDE reference the assassination of the Dutch film team are a matter of record.
"As I said earlier, Walter's lapse in judgement in sharing Mr. Hazelwood's email with me, has allowed for me to respond in an appropriate manner.?
"Happy Thanksgiving to each of you and your families[...]and may your Christmas holiday be peaceful, blessed, and loving.?
"De Oppresso Liber"
Always respectfully -?
Greg Walker (ret)
"...even if the president doesn’t like it and has his eye on preventing journalists from disrupting his official narrative."
"El Salvador has a long history with authoritarian regimes. The advent of a military-dominated regime in the early 1980s led to a massive exodus to America. Now, it’s happening again. Almost 100,000 Salvadorans have been detained by U.S. Border Patrol in 2021. There are complex reasons driving this migration as my countrymen flee everything from gang violence to the devastating effects of climate change. But Bukele’s governing style has also had an impact. Carlos Dada, El Faro’s director, talks of “a silent exile ” that affects all kinds of citizens, including journalists, lawyers and members of the political opposition.
"We are still recovering from the wounds inflicted by a civil war that tore our country apart, and our democracy is again under threat. That’s why I am committed to telling the truth about our history and shedding light on the horrific events of three or four decades ago — even if the president doesn’t like it and has his eye on preventing journalists from disrupting his official narrative."
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-high-price-of-doing-journalism-in-el-salvador/amp
Justice obstructed by U.S. citizens?
Mr. Cargile's sharing of Mr. Hazelwood's email to him, given its content, raises serious questions.
Given the current Administration's policies as they pertain to Central and South America, specifically its human rights policy and commitment to see alleged war criminals apprehended, tried in a court of law, and Justice determined, how do U.S. citizens aligning themselves with "The El Mozote Group" undermine these critical policies if they indeed do?
Especially if one of those Americans now claiming to live fulltime in El Salvador and apparently regularly meeting and confiding with the defendants in the El Mozote war crimes case, is benefiting in some manner from the Bukele government. And is doing likewise regarding the Dutch Prosecutor's Office continued efforts to see Colonel Reyes Mena deported from the United States to Holland to stand trial at the Hague for the 1982 assassination of four Dutch journalists?
All the while mocking the current U.S. embassy staff charged with carrying out our foreign policy in El Salvador?
And who indeed does Allan Bruce Hazelwood now work for? From a report he wrote and provided a copy of to me a few years ago the answer seems clear. "Lastly, as was put yesterday when having discussions with a senior official in-charge of security and intelligence operations, about the on-going protection programs, he ended by saying?“if you ever need anything just ask”?-- my reply was?“thanks -- but I do not need a?thing -- only need for you to run the country right.”??He correctly relied “we are trying hard.”"
The oppression of the once hard fought and hard won democracy in El Salvador is today worse than ever. In an effort to shut down any organization, person, or human rights group Bukele has announced a new form of administrative and now legalized harassment.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-17/foreign-agents-pitch-has-el-salvador-civil-society-on-edge
Why did they have to kill the children...
Author profile
Greg Walker retired from the U.S. Army's Special Forces in 2005. His awards and decorations include the Combat Infantryman Badge (2nd award), the Special Forces Tab, and the Washington National Guard's Legion of Merit.
From 2009 - 2013, Greg was a Warrior Care case manager for the SOCOM Care Coalition where he oversaw care and treatment for our most seriously wounded, injured, or made ill SOF warriors and their families. He retired from the same line of work in the private sector in 2018.
Today Mr. Walker lives and writes from his home in Sisters, Oregon, along with his service pup, Tommy.