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A fact from George Bacon (CIA officer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 November 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that George Bacon fought as a Green Beret during the Vietnam War, a CIA paramilitary in the Laotian Civil War, and a mercenary in Angola, all by age 30?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/George Bacon (CIA).

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Conflicting statements[edit]

One one hand, we have the sentence

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who oversaw the return of Bacon's remains, acknowledged him as a mercenary.[12][13][14]

On the other hand, we have the sentence

George Bacon III's remains were never recovered.

So were the remains recovered or not? Kindzmarauli (talk) 18:23, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering that as well. Georgejdorner, can you shed light on this? Kevin Rutherford (talk) 20:39, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Now fixed. Kindzmarauli (talk) 21:37, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Scholarship for George Washington Bacon III[edit]

I am pretty sure the information you have on the scholarship are incorrect. I was married to his sister Gail for 17 years and I was unaware of any scholarship in his memory.

Regards, Gene Clauss gene.clauss@schneider-electric.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.204.211.10 (talk) 18:48, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"especially considering that MACV-SOG's casualty rate exceeded 100%"[edit]

This makes no sense, in fact this whole article is not very good at all and reads like a melodrama. Most of the information comes from a website called sofrep.com which is subscription only. No other resources are listed to verify the veracity of this part of the entry.