Ben Hai 211 Alpha
The Tragedy in Vietnam
Author: George W. Ragsdale
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George W. Ragsdale completed twenty years of active military service and retired as a Chief Warrant Officer in 1980. During his years of service in the Signal Corps, Air Defense Artillery, Field Artillery, and Infantry George served in a variety of leadership, maintenance, operations and training positions. Shortly after retiring from active duty George completed graduate school and continued to work another twenty years in such diverse fields as engineering, management information systems development, quality/reliability, professional development, training, organizational development, and productivity consulting. During this time George also taught graduate level courses in Finance, Economics, Project and Operations Management; undergraduate and industrial level courses in Quality, Statistics, Leadership, Maintenance, and Team Development. Additionally, he has presented papers at quality conferences on Six Sigma Applications and Educational Research Techniques. George’s results-based focus to leadership and problem solving can be traced to his small unit leadership role as a combat leader in Vietnam. It was during this experience that he was able to bring his technical skills into focus within an operating environment by applying lessons learned in past roles to produce measurable operational results. This combat experience has led George to re-evaluate values, leadership styles, and performance measurements in the context of what it really means to lead people in a results-based environment. George’s first Book, “Ben Hai 211 Alpha”, tells the story of how one individual’s experiences were life altering and set the stage for his life’s direction after 2 September 1970. George’s extensive hands-on experience has created a wealth of knowledge on applying leadership and technical skill sets to strategy development and on how to link this organizational strategy to the process level. George’s application of results focused leadership and systems problem solving ability led him to develop a productivity model and a new results-based training philosophy. His current goal is to publish these concepts of productivity and results-based training. Vietnam was the worst thing that ever happened in George’s life; but it was also the best thing that ever happened in his life. The experiences of this conflict opened a world of new possibilities and realities which he hopes to share in this and future publications. [After surviving numerous assaults in Vietnam, and realizing his lifelong dream of writing this book on his experiences, George was stung by a wasp a few weeks after publishing his book, and died on the spot.]
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