Gerald Schumacher

A captain in Vietnam in the 1960s, Gerald Schumacher went on to command a variety of post-Vietnam missions before retiring in 1997 as a full colonel. Schumacher served thirty-two years in the military, including twenty years as a Green Beret. He has been a guest lecturer at preeminent think-tank groups and has appeared numerous times on network television and national radio. Schumacher is also the author of To Be a U.S. Army Green Beret "and A Bloody Business." He lives outside San Francisco,...See more

A captain in Vietnam in the 1960s, Gerald Schumacher went on to command a variety of post-Vietnam missions before retiring in 1997 as a full colonel. Schumacher served thirty-two years in the military, including twenty years as a Green Beret. He has been a guest lecturer at preeminent think-tank groups and has appeared numerous times on network television and national radio. Schumacher is also the author of To Be a U.S. Army Green Beret "and A Bloody Business." He lives outside San Francisco, California. See less