Georgia boy: early influences
Want to be a flyboy: aviation cadet training with the U.S. Army Air Corps
A soldier's apprenticeship: West Point, Fort Riley, Kansas, and Fort Benning, Georgia
Korea: Eighth Army Ranger Company
Back on track: convalescence, marriage, and the Ranger Department
Latin sojourn: U.S. Army Caribbean Command and forming the Colombian Ranger School
Climbing the Army School Ladder: Infantry Advanced Course, USMAPS, and the Command and General Staff College
Tenth Special Forces Group : three-year idyll in Bavaria
Three more way stations cleared: Armed Forces Staff College, the Pentagon, and U.S. Army War College
Strike force: battalion command in Vietnam
Tet: the unexpected crossover
West Point: changing times at the Academy
The Fort Carson blues: troubled birth of the new Army
Life in mufti: Outward Bound, Discovery, and MicroBilt
Not all old soldiers fade away: Fort Benning redux
Afterword by General David H. Petraeus, USA (Ret.).