Who gives a bleep about whether or not PHC was in the US military?
I remember in 2011 when we took a shortcut through some tall tan-coliored grass in an attempt to intercept a herd of buff. I heard the low sounds of lions grunting in the grass, and immediately thought, "Death in the Long Grass." Later we encountered some baboons and I brought up the scope. I thought about "a strange feeling of ancestral murder at the back of my neck." I shot and missed.
PHC was a giant. I wish I had met him.