THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS--WHERE DANGER REIGNED SUPREME AND DEATH WAS A CONSTANT  COMPANION The fighting was fierce in the Central Highlands where Green  Beret George Dooley served with elite Special Forces A-teams, training the  rugged Montagnards in guerrilla warfare and accompanying them on patrols. The  Viet Cong and NVA were entrenched in the sparsely populated Highlands, where  towering mountains gave them the ruthless upper hand. The missions Dooley  led, often in enemy territory, provided a steady diet of sniping, ambushes,  booby traps, and mines. As the war escalated, Dooley commanded his own A-team,  and the battles against the large numbers of crack NVA troops became even more  desperate and deadly. By then military command routinely assigned  anything-but-routine missions to Special Forces and expected them to meet their  objectives. BATTLE FOR THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS details the unbelievable valor of  these legendary American warriors. . .

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George E. Dooley was born, raised, and educated in Chicago, Illinois.  At 17 he quit college to join the army, where he served as a paratrooper in the 101 st Airborne Division.  He was selected for Special Forces training, and in February 1967, when he was a Sergeant First Class (E-7) he was commisioned as a second lieutenant in February 1967.  While serving in the army, he completed a B.A. in political science (graduating summa cum laude), he later attained an M.A. in management.  He is also a graduate of  the Infantry Officer Advanced Course and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC).

Dooley is now retired from the army, and lives with his wife, Nina B. Smith (PhD, Northwestern) along with their boxer, Max von Tolz, in Antioch, Illinois.