Bio: Runzheimer, James D. – 1st Lt. (Joins Green Berets- 1969)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Runzheimer

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 09 Oct 1969

First Lieutenant James D. Runzheimer, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Runzheimer of Colby (Clark Co., Wis.), will join the Green Berets in Germany. He graduated from the United States Army Special Forces Officers course at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, on September 26, 1969.

The United States Army Special Forces are known to civilians as Green Berets.

Consisting of 12 weeks of instruction the special forces officers course trains Army officers in the special forces mission of guerrilla and counter guerrilla warfare. The 12 weeks concluded with a 10-day training exercise in southern North Carolina in a simulated cold war guerrilla environment.

Lt. Runzheimer is a June 1967 graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a graduate of the United States Army Infantry Officer Candidate course and the U.S. Army Airborne course, both at Ft. Binning, Georgia, and the Turkish language course at the Defense Language Institute – West Coast at Monterey, California. After a short leave. Lt. Runzheimer will be assigned to the special forces detachment (airborne), Europe, located at Bad Toelz, West Germany.

Attending the graduation exercise at Ft. Bragg on September 26 were Mr. Walter Runzheimer and daughter, Susan.