Gerald Kelly was an advisor to President Somoza during the Iran Contra Affair

Looking a lot like Cervantes’ Don Quixote Gerald Kelly, a Green Beret officer working for the Organization of American States in 1969 during the “Soccer War” between Honduras and El Salvador, keeps the peace atop his steed. Photo provided

When Gerald Kelly went to war in Vietnam in 1968 he was a young Army 1st. lieutenant with little or no experience. By the time he retired from the service two decades later he was a light colonel, Latin American expert, Green Beret and an Airborne Ranger who served in Special Forces in the Americas.