Francis J. ‘Bing’ West, originally from the Dorchester section of Boston, served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. A true warrior-scholar, West authored an extremely influential study while a Visiting Research Associate at the RAND Corporation 1966 - 1968 entitled: "The Strike Teams: Tactical Performance and Strategic Potential". Wikipedia
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Bing West and MajGen Ray Smith, one of the most decorated Marines since WWII, traveled with 18 Marine units, seeing combat on 16 days. www.westwrite.com
Bing served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration. A graduate of Georgetown and Princeton Universities, he served in Marine infantry in Vietnam. His books have won the Marine Corps Heritage Pri www.westwrite.com/
