When I signed into Airborne school years and years ago, there was a photo of him in the S-1 holding all of his Purple Hearts.
Years later, I was at the Army War College. I got to meet men who had served with him in Vietnam. The reports weren't good.
I then met a E-8 who had Hackworth in his unit as a "reporter" during the first Gulf War. He was hardly tough guy his books would have you believe.
That's right, and his so-called "journalism" was nothing more than self-serving, baseless hearsay, scooped up through the grapevine.
Look up Navy CNO Admiral Jeremy Boorda, and the role David Hackworth played in his death.