Denny Lane relates his extraordinary and colorful experiences with the US Army, beginning when he graduated from Norwich University at age 23 (a year late because he “spent too much time skiing”) and was commissioned in the Medical Service Corps. After his first assignment in Alaska, he branch transferred to infantry and was sent to the 82nd Airborne in the Dominican Republic (“instead of … Fort Benning”), where he learned to be an infantry officer. Lane then spent a year in the 7th Special Forces Group doing Special Forces training, including the Special Forces Officers' Course and the Special Officers' Counterinsurgency Course. His first tour in Vietnam began with seven months as a the S1 (personnel officer) for D Company at Can Tho. He then spent three months as the officer in charge of an A-Team at Moc Hoa, where he accidentally blew up a bridge, burned a village to the ground, and became friends with a village chief who gave him an AK-47. After learning Thai for six months at language school back in the States, Captain Lane was assigned as an adviser to the 31st Infantry Regiment in Lopburi, Thailand. In 1969, he returned to Vietnam as the adviser to the 2nd Regiment of the Thai infantry, and was later recruited for intelligence work with II Field Force in Cambodia because of his facility with the French language.