Wolf by the Ears

West Point's first 6th generation graduate, French speaking Alan Armstrong was one of three members of America's armed forces to serve the longest in the Khmer Republic. When he wasn't on battlefields with doomed soldiers, or meeting with his friend, Brigadier General Lon Non, brother of Cambodia's president, Marshal Lon Nol, he was either at the Khmer high command's Centre opérationnel or at the American Embassy, watching the country disintegrate. Alan and two others were the last staff members to exit the American Embassy on the day that the United State pulled out of Cambodia. He flew out on the last evacuee helicopter shoulder to shoulder with the American Ambassador, John Gunther Dean. See his interview on ThinkTech Hawaii Cambodia.