U.S. Army Colonel Thom Nicholson and his wife retired to Highland Ranch, Colorado. He was born in Missouri and raised around Fort Smith, Arkansas. After obtaining a Nuclear Engineering degree from the Missouri School of Mines, he joined the U.S. Army and as a green beret for 30 years, served in Vietnam, South America and other less desirable locations. In Vietnam he was first an A-team XO and then a raider company commander for a cross-border operations unit of MACV-SOG. He retired from the Army


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