Special guests will speak to Muldrow students at Muldrow Schools Veterans Day program at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Students will hear from a retired U.S. Army major who served in Iraq at the beginning of the war and will meet his son, who is to be deployed to Afghanistan.

James Martin Green, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Jerry Green of Muldrow, is now retired from the U.S. Army where he worked in special operations for 22 years. A 1982 graduate of Muldrow High School, Green will be speaking on military operations and his experiences in the many countries where he served.

Green will be accompanied by his son, Kyle, a graduate of Central High School, who is now serving with the U.S. Army 173rd Infantry Airborne, based in Italy. Green said his son flew in for a short visit on Saturday before his deployment. Both men will attend the Veterans Day program.

Green said he will answer questions from students about serving in the military at the Veterans Day assembly. Veteran Larry Laney will also speak. The local Veterans of Foreign Wars at Muldrow will present the colors and special music will be provided by the middle school choir, the Next Generation Choir and Steve Page. All veterans are invited to attend the program and stay for lunch.

During his 22 years in U.S. Army Special Operations he completed tours in many different countries including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kuwait, Iraq, Hungary, Central and South America, Africa, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Korea.

Green said during his military career he deployed with some of the best soldiers in the U.S. military, including Delta Force, Seal Team 2 and the famous Seal Team Rainbow 6.  Since he retired with the military he is still working for the U.S. government as a federal agent based in Dallas. Green said he is now an anti-terrorism specialist, a job that he cannot talk about.

His son, Pvt. 2 Kyle Green is a 2005 graduate Central High School. He joined the U.S. Army in 2008 and completed basic training, the Infantry Advance Course and Airborne School at Fort Benning, Ga.  He is currently stationed in Vicenza, Italy, with the 173rd Infantry Airborne (Sky Soldiers), and received his Italian jump wings on Thursday. He will be deployed to Afghanistan in the near future.

Green said during one of his last operations he was inserted into Iraq with Iraqi troops he had trained himself before the war.

“We were actually working for Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice,” Green said. “We went in before the war to observe troop movements and to look for weapons of mass destruction.”

As the war began, Green said he and team helped with the rescue of Jessica Lynch, who had been taken captive when her patrol was lost, in December 2003.

Although now retired, Green said he keeps in touch with the troops he served with from around the world.

“I lived with my Iraqis,” he said. “They were good. I still speak with my people from all around the world.”

Green delivered two quotes he believes are important to military personnel, and to personal freedom.

They are: “We make war that we may live in peace,” — Aristotle; and “Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy,” — Helvetius.