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NATO tapped Army officer's language skills.
Byline: MARK ZALOUDEK mark.zaloudek@heraldtribune.com
Gobeille, who died July 27 at 92, also used his bilingual skills in French at the Pentagon for several years before retiring from the military in 1970.
During his 28-year military career, he received several medals, including the Purple Heart, Silver Star, three Bronze Stars, a Distinguished Service Medal and two Legion of Merit medals.
Gobeille, whose French-Canadian parents moved to the United States before he was born, had not planned on a military career, but World War II changed that.
He graduated from Officer Candidate School in 1943, a year after being drafted. In 1944, he was in …
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