Chuck Grassley: “I was very sad to learn that Colonel Hackworth had died on May 4, 2005, in Tijuana, Mexico. Tijuana is the place where…”

“I was very sad to learn that Colonel Hackworth had died on May 4, 2005, in Tijuana, Mexico. Tijuana is the place where Colonel Hackworth chose to make his last stand. He went there to fight one last battle. He had a particularly deadly form of cancer that spread. He went to Mexico, hoping for a miracle with an experimental drug treatment program. Just before leaving his home in Connecticut for the last time in January 2005, he sent me one final message: Give Senator Grassley my best. Have run out of conventional options re my cancer. Got until March to find a solution. Off to Mexico to see if we can't out Gee this monster. I am not sweating my final orders from Headquarters. It has been a fun ride. Plan on being planted in Arlington. ``Out-Geeing the G'' was one of Colonel Hackworth's favorite expressions. He invented the term while leading troops in combat during the Vietnam war. He told his troops that they could beat the Viet Cong by using the guerrillas' own mobile, hit-and-run tactics. ``We are going to do what they do but just do it better,'' he said. `` We out-gee the G.'' ``Out-geeing the G'' was the heart and soul of Colonel Hackworth's brand of soldiering. Sadly, Colonel Hackworth was not able to ``out-Gee'' the enemy this time. Colonel Hackworth began his military career just up the coast from Tijuana--in Santa Monica, CA.…”