MeetAnthony Alexander Poshepny (Tony Poe).
This cuddly fucker who was supposedly the inspiration for Colonel Walter E. Kurtz of Apocalypse Now fame as well as being instrumental in rousing support for the MIKE Force and Civilian Irregular Defense Group spec-ops.
He paid Hmong fighters to bring him the ears of dead enemy soldiers, and, on at least one occasion, he mailed a bag of ears to the US embassy in Vientiane to prove his body counts. He dropped severed heads onto enemy locations twice in a grisly form of psy-ops. Although his orders were only to train forces, he also went into battle with them and was wounded several times by shrapnel.