Show # 297: Dr. John Cronin Vietnam Era Force Recon Marine and Rhodesian Light Infantry Selous Scout
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John R. Cronin joined the Marines at 19 and went to
Vietnam twice with Battalion and Force Recon units from 1967-69,
where he was wounded once during each tour. He returned to the
States and completed his BA in political science at The Citadel
before being commissioned back into the Marines as an infantry
officer for three years. Following his discharge in 1976, he went
to Rhodesia for four years where he served as an officer on Fire
Force with the Rhodesian Light Infantry, an operations officer and
as a deployed operational Group second-in-command with the Selous
Scouts.
He left Rhodesia in 1980 and in 1982 went to Cairo
and then Beirut, where, after having survived a kidnapping by
Hezbollah, he received an MA in Middle East Studies, and then went
on to The School of Oriental and African Studies at The University
of London for his PhD in Middle East Politics. He has since held a
series of administrative positions in, and taught international
politics at, the university level in the Washington area and worked
as a contract specialist on educational administrative policies in
the Middle East. He currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia with
his wife and their two children.
Dr. Cronin is the author of the amazing book “The
Bleed”
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