2010/03/05

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Phil Town

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clippers remarks: An ex-Green Beret and former river guide, Phil Town is a self-made millionaire several times over and Americas most widely sought-after speaker on investing.

Phil-Town-river-guide Phil Town is the classic Everyman, albeit one whose education and resources were more limited than most.


An average high school student, he completed college on his fourth try. Of his early working years, he says he "mostly got dirty for a living", taking on jobs such as digging ditches and pumping gas. Phil Town spent three and a half years in the Army, returned from the Vietnam War and found a job in the States as a river guide.


Drifting through California, Utah, and Idaho, he subsisted at poverty level, combining his wages from the guiding season and unemployment. He wore black leathers, sported a goatee, lived in a teepee in the woods near Flagstaff, Arizona, and "drove around in a really loud black Harley Davidson".


In the early 80s, Phil Towns life changed radically. He was guiding trustees from the educational program Outward Bound down the nastiest rapid on the Grand Canyons Colorado River, when his split-second decisions saved a boatload of people from a whitewater disaster.



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Telling The Story Of The Hardest Hit Unit In Iraq

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In 2007, journalist and former soldier Kelly Kennedy embedded in Iraq with Charlie Company. In 15 months, the 1/26th Infantry, charged with fighting insurgents, had the most casualties of any U.S. battalion since Vietnam. Kennedy details her year with the troops in her new book, They Fought For Each Other: Telling the Story of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq.
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Telling The Story Of The Hardest Hit Unit In Iraq

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In 2007, journalist and former soldier Kelly Kennedy embedded in Iraq with Charlie Company. In 15 months, the 1/26th Infantry, charged with fighting insurgents, had the most casualties of any U.S. battalion since Vietnam. Kennedy details her year with the troops in her new book, They Fought For Each Other: Telling the Story of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq.
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Telling The Story Of The Hardest Hit Unit In Iraq

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In 2007, journalist and former soldier Kelly Kennedy embedded with Charlie Company in Iraq. In 15 months, the 26th Infantry Regiment had the most casualties of any U.S. battalion since Vietnam. Kennedy details her year with the troops in her new book, They Fought for Each Other.
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Telling The Story Of The Hardest Hit Unit In Iraq

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In 2007, journalist and former soldier Kelly Kennedy embedded with Charlie Company in Iraq. In 15 months, the 26th Infantry Regiment had the most casualties of any U.S. battalion since Vietnam. Kennedy details her year with the troops in her new book, They Fought for Each Other.
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