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128PSI SpiesRiley said in boot camp the Army “tweaked my interest”in imagery interpretation, the analysis of aerial photos andsuch. He recalled:That seemed pretty interesting to me, plus it was inthe intelligence field and sounded kind of exotic to me.So I volunteered for that and it put me into a three-yearenlistment. I was sent to military intelligence trainingschool at Fort Holibird, Maryland, after basic training. Iwas in the last group to go through there. It’s no longerthere.After this course, they sent around the dreamsheets, that’s where you list where you want to go foryour next assignment. This was 1969–70, the height ofthe Vietnam War, so I was quite realistic. I put down formy three choices—Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam. Everybodyelse put in for Hawaii, North Carolina, England,whatever. I was about the only one out of my entiregraduating class that did not go to Vietnam. They sentme straight to Germany.Riley said his unit in Germany was a “do-nothing tacticalintelligence” group and he chafed under the inaction. “It tookme about six months but I finagled my way through the backdoor to get up to a special detachment that was attached to theAir Force in Wiesbaden, Germany,” Riley said. “And there wegot into some genuine strategic-level imagery interpretation.”In 1977, he was transferred to Fort Meade, Maryland, tothe newly formed Army Intelligence and Security Command.Here, Riley entered deeper into the intelligence community,working with one of the special units under INSCOM. “Iwound up in a special group called the SAVE Team,” he said.