Editing Oliver North (section)

===Post-Vietnam===
In 1970, North returned to [[South Vietnam]] to testify as a character witness at the trial of Lance Corporal Randall Herrod, a U.S. Marine formerly under his command who, along with four others, had been charged with the murder of sixteen Vietnamese civilians in the village of [[Son Thang massacre|Son Thang]].<ref>"Did Military Justice Fail or Prevail?" [[Duke University Law]] Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security reprinted from ''[[Michigan Law Review]]'', 1998</ref> North claims Herrod had previously saved his life.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.people.com/archive/the-man-who-did-too-much-vol-28-no-2/amp/?client=safari|title=The Man Who Did Too Much – Vol. 28 No. 2|date=July 13, 1987}}</ref> Herrod and one other Marine were acquitted.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=166+Mil.+L.+Rev.+234&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=56c7b04d4ca7b929ff4579e032a9d519|title=Book Review: Son Thang: An American War Crime 1|website=litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com|access-date=January 20, 2017|archive-date=February 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201234753/https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=166+Mil.+L.+Rev.+234&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=56c7b04d4ca7b929ff4579e032a9d519|url-status=dead}}</ref>

North's post-Vietnam career included: instructor at the [[The Basic School|Marine Basic School]] from 1969 to 1974; director of the [[Camp Gonsalves|Northern Training Area]] in [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa, Japan]] (1973–1974); plans and policy analyst with the manpower division at [[Headquarters Marine Corps]] from 1975 to 1978; and operations officer (S3) for [[3rd Battalion, 8th Marines|3rd Battalion, 8th Regiment]], [[2nd Marine Division]] at [[Camp Lejeune]] (1978–80).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gareffa |first1=Peter M. |last2=Evory |first2=Ann |date=1988 |title=Newsmakers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWJmAAAAMAAJ |location=Farmington Hills, MI |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale Publishing]] |pages=266–267|isbn=978-0810322035 }}</ref>  He graduated from the [[Naval War College#College of Naval Command and Staff|College of Naval Command and Staff]] at the [[Navy War College]] in 1981.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gerstenzang |first=James |date=November 26, 1986 |title=The Crisis in the White House: The Key Players; Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, A Passion for the Fight Against Communism |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-11-26-mn-15628-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, CA}}</ref>