User:Circusranger

circusranger is Barry A. Toll, circusranger@yahoo.com

Mr Toll is currently engaged in writing his autobiographical memoir. His military career began as a draftee in June 1967. Basic at Harmony Church, Ft. Benning. Toll was the High Score PCPT graduate of his training battalion. Then off to Tigerland, Fort Polk, La. for Advanced Infantry Training, where again Toll was distinguished as the highest scoring graduate in his company. As with everyone sent to Tigerland, he was already levied in the Pentagon for shipment to Vietnam. He arrived Vietnam, 9 Mar 68 and was assigned to Company C, 2nd Bn, 35th Inf, 3rd Brigade, 4th Inf Div operating in Pleiku and Kontum provinces, SVN the Central Highlands. His first day assigned in the field his battalion was engaged in a hill battle against the infamous 325C Division ("Death to the Last Man"). This battle raged for Toll, five days. His company suffered 70% casualties in a remarkable baptism of fire and ferocity.

Later in his tour, after Recondo training, Toll volunteered for duty as a LRRP, where he quickly became a Team Leader. He would perform 11 Top Secret clandestine missions along the Tri-Border region of Vietnam at times repeatedly entering Cambodia. He was medevacced to Japan from Vietnam on New Years' Day, 1969 after being in a coma for nine days, suffering from "tropical jungle fevers of unknown origin" and not expected to live.

He survived and became a regular Army soldier, re-entering service as a buck sergeant. For six years he was a distinguished holder of the Infantry Operations and Intelligence MOS where he was rated the highest score in evaluations, within the entire Pacific Theatre and the second highest in the entire U.S. Army. He became a special designated operative of the Secretary of Defense Office, and was a holder, and team member of eight man teams holding the Presidential Nuclear Sealed Authentication Systems, that stand ready to guide the President or other National Command Authority through a Nuclear War. As such, he was privy for years to the combined, integrated, entire output of the entire United States Intelligence Community. There are only 240 persons throughout the entire U.S. Government allowed such access. Toll is a 100% Permanently Disabled Veteran, DOD: 16 Aug 1975 and has lived in various countries around the world. He is retired fully in He has testified before investigating committees of both the Senate and House on intelligence historical matters, under oath and hundreds of articles have been written about his revelatory testimonies.