In Almost Free is what some veterans were and what some were not. The Army Security Agency's highly-classified practice of compartmentalizing people, based on a need to know, keeps operations essential to national security secure, and it makes it impossible for any one person to know or write the whole truth about Freddy Crane's dangerous detour. After all, he wasn't there.

In Vietnam a five hundred dollar bounty had been placed on any ASA member captured.