From Shadows to Sky

Hal

In this powerful true story, Hal Harless recounts his transformation from a shy teenager into one of the thirty-three founding members of the U.S. Army’s first Airborne Military Police Company. From surviving brutal MP School and the unforgiving streets of Fayetteville—(AKA Fayette-Nam) better known to soldiers as “Combat Alley”—to enduring the punishing intensity of Airborne School and leaping from military cargo aircraft into the Carolina sky, Harless delivers a compelling and unfiltered look at the brotherhood, danger, and defining moments that shaped his early Army career.