For most recruits, infantry training was carried out at a CIA-run base code-named JMTrax near Retalhuleu in the Sierra Madre on the Pacific coast of Guatemala.
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On 29 December 1962, President John F. Kennedy hosted a 'welcome back' ceremony for captured Brigade 2506 veterans at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
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In 2001 he was awarded the Samuel Proctor History Prize by the Florida Historical Society for his book, Bay of Pigs: An Oral History of Brigade 2506.