Career
He died on September 15, 2005 from pancreatic cancer. He served two tours in combat in of Korea, one behind enemy lines, and three tours in combat in Vietnam. He enlisted in the United States. Army on September 26, 1945 as a private.
He retired in August 1970 as a colonel.
As recorded in his official biography, Colt Terry, Green Beret, by Charles Doctorate. Patton, published by Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University Press, 2005, Colt"s extensive military career set many of the standards that Green Berets would become known foreign Jay Carafano of the National Defense University described the book as "..a valuable contribution to military history.
While United States. special operations forces have long been a niche subject in military history, recent United States. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have demonstrated their increasing importance in modern warfare and raised interest in general over the origins and development of unconventional units.".
