Michael G. Stahl
Michael Gerard Stahl is a medically retired US Army Special Forces soldier. A highly decorated combat veteran with 24 months in Vietnam, Stahl was the Intel Sgt for A-102 at Tien Phuoc Special Forces Camp and later spent time in covert reconnaissance with the top secret unit known as Military Assistance Command, Vietnam - Studies and Observations Group. It is here he served as the 1-0 (Team Leader) for RT Michigan out of CCN (Command and Control North). He was seriously wounded on August 8, 1970, and medevac'd to the continental US. Early life Michael Gerard Stahl was born on January 28, 1945, in Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo, NY. In 1947, part of his family moved to Florida and settled in Bradenton. Michael attended Ballard Elementary School, Walker Junior High School and Manatee High School. He became very involved in music as a percussionist and, in his junior year, was a member of the high school marching and symphonic bands, the high school orchestra, the Manatee County Community Band, and The Junior West Coast Philharmonic. In addition, he learned to play trumpet, played in the pit orchestra for the senior class play and played the male lead in the