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SGT (Join to see), I met and worked with then Major Ed(die) Shirron in March, 1983, who actually photographed the event from OP No. 5. "[Then] Captain Shirron (Bonifas' replacement), Captain Shaddix, the joint duty officer's driver, the joint duty officer, and the OP No. 5 guard witnessed the attack from OP No. 5 and recorded the incident with both a black and white camera, which ran out of film, and Shaddix's 35 mm camera with a telephoto lens."
Shirron was assigned to the G-3 Plans Division of VII U.S. Corps at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany (then the FRG) when I met him in 1983. I was assigned to the 15th Psychological Operations Battalion and we had been attached to the Plans Division for the conduct of WINTEX/Cimex, an annual CPX. He was incredibly intense, and a no nonsense officer. He never laughed that I ever saw. Only years later did I find out that he was part of this awful atrocity. It may well have been the reason for his intensity.
He retired as a Colonel, and currently serves both in the cast and the crew of the Topeka Civic Theatre.
The photos are of Shirron (at left and fairly current) and OP No. 5.
Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen F. LTC (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski
Shirron was assigned to the G-3 Plans Division of VII U.S. Corps at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany (then the FRG) when I met him in 1983. I was assigned to the 15th Psychological Operations Battalion and we had been attached to the Plans Division for the conduct of WINTEX/Cimex, an annual CPX. He was incredibly intense, and a no nonsense officer. He never laughed that I ever saw. Only years later did I find out that he was part of this awful atrocity. It may well have been the reason for his intensity.
He retired as a Colonel, and currently serves both in the cast and the crew of the Topeka Civic Theatre.
The photos are of Shirron (at left and fairly current) and OP No. 5.
Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen F. LTC (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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