John Gargus is a military veteran with distinguished service in the Air Force Special Operations Forces. He began lecturing and writing articles about the Vietnam War during his post military civilian employment as a school district director for maintenance. He authored a chapter on the history of the Air Force Special Operations for the book on The U.S. Special Operations Forces and also wrote two books on The Son Tay Raid – American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten in 2007 and Combat Talons in Vietnam – Recovering a Covert Special Ops Crew in 2017. He wrote fi ve stories for his grandsons which are illustrated and published by Xlibris. He was born in Slovakia and writes articles about his childhood in his native language for publication in a quarterly magazine of his native village.