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| Colonel Heath Bottomly ... known generally by his service nickname "Bo" ... was born in Chinook, Montana in 1919. He was the second-born of seven sons of Judge R.V. Bottomly, Associate Justice of the Montana Supreme Court. Colonel Bo served as Secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and recorded the secret, emergency, JCS meetings with Secretary McNamara during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that opened the Vietnam War. Like many Viet Vets, Colonel Bo was spiritually or psychologically wounded out there. He returned an arrogant alcoholic. This ultimately destroyed his family, his career as a radio news analyst and his ministry with Campus Crusade for Christ. After a miracle recovery at Scripps, La Jolla, Colonel Bo retired to the hidden Scott River Valley in far northern California to start a new life. Employing his experience in Scouting, in the military and in Campus Crusade, he developed a program of Wilderness Adventure designed to keep other young people from being caught up in the drug addiction trap. | ||||||||||||||||
