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About Michael LanningMichael Lee Lanning

Michael Lee Lanning who graduated from Texas A&M served more than twenty years in the U.S. Army retiring as a lieutenant colonel with the Senior Parachute Badge Combat Infantrymans Badge Ranger Tab and Bronze Star. In Vietnam he commanded an infantry platoon a recon platoon and a rifle company. His military career included service as public-affairs officer for Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and similar work in the Department of Defense Public Affairs office. He has spoken at conferences on the African-American Soldier at the D-Day Museum and Tuskegee University and has appeared on NPR CBS and the History Channel. He has written twenty-four nonfiction books on military history sports and health with more than 1.1 million copies of his books in print in fifteen countries and twelve languages. His previous books include the classic Vietnam 1969-1970: A Company Commanders Journal which the New York Times called one of the most honest and horrifying accounts of a combat soldiers life to come out of the Vietnam War. A native of Texas Lanning lives in Lampasas Texas just west of Fort Hood.