Retirement, Vietnam Tour and Death
Following his retirement from the Army Reserve in 1960, with the rank of brigadier general, Marshall continued to serve as an unofficial adviser to the Army. As a private citizen, he spent late 1966 and early 1967 in Vietnam on an Army-sponsored tour for the official purpose of teaching his after-action interview techniques to field commanders, in order to improve data collection for both the chain of command and the future official history of the Vietnam War.
The Army Chief of Military History's representative on the tour, Colonel David H. Hackworth, collected his own observations from the trip and published them as The Vietnam Primer, giving Marshall credit as co-author.
Marshall died in 1977 in El Paso, Texas. The University of Texas at El Paso library has a special collection built around his books.
Marshall is used as a character in Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood, a video game released in 2005.
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