Born: April 26,1945, Boston; grew up in Georgia
Residence: Vienna, Virginia
Education: U.S. Naval Academy
In Vietnam: October 1967-April 1968, officer aboard the destroyer USS Buck; April 1969-April 1970, adviser, South Vietnamese Navy Coastal Group 35; May 1971-March 1972, adviser, South Vietnamese River Patrol Division 54; June 1972-February 1973, adviser, South Vietnamese Coastal Group 21; 1973, resigned commission, as a lieutenant
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Richard Armitage, a Navy adviser assisting South Vietnamese units during the war and later a State Department official working with Colin Powell, experienced something in Vietnam that few other combat veterans did. “Most GIs left in ’73, but I got to see the real end,” he says.
Armitage was a leader in the…
