Lt. Col. William L. Howard, USA, Ret., of Largo, Fla., died May 8. He was commissioned in 1964 in the U.S. Army as an ordnance officer. In 1966, Howard was transferred to France and served as the commander of the 11th Military History Detachment. He later transferred to military intelligence and was sent to Vietnam. From 1967 until 1968, Howard was a member of the Combined Material Exploitation Center, Saigon. He left active duty in February 1970 and worked for Sun Oil Co. and then Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. Howard was active in the Army Reserve with a maneuver training command, running field training exercises for Army Reserve and National Guard units in a four state area. In 1976, he returned to college at the University of South Florida and got a second undergraduate degree in engineering. Howard worked for Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, where he was a researcher in the ordnance technology division, until 1981 when he went to work as the special assistant to the president of Leatherwood Industries, Stephenville, Texas. In 1983 Howard transferred to the armor branch of the Army Reserve as a mobilization designee to the Defense Intelligence Agency. During summer tours there, he wrote the national intelligence collection requirements for Cuba, Indochina and Soviet science and technology. After officially retiring from the Army Reserve, Howard began collecting and started building radios and had one of the larger collections of Japanese radios and communication equipment in the nation. He taught the introduction to technical intelligence phase of the technical intelligence analysis course at the Aberdeen Proving Ground on several occasions and, in 1996, was nominated for the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame No further information is available. Tags: 1964
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