it was bad for him personally, because he just couldn't cope with that sort offagelation. >> greg boyington told me they expected me to be the swaggering hero that they read about. if that's what they wanted to see, i acted the part as pappy boyington, the swash buckling hero. >> everywhere he went, somebody was sticking a bourbon and coke in his face and encouraging him to go back to his ways. >> and he did. within two years, his bad habits ended his military career. >> he again became just too big of a liability because of his drinking problem. and they fo to more or less railroad him out of the service. he was retired with a medical disability in 1947. after that, he couldn't hold a job for more than a few weeks or months at a time. >> despite penning his autobiography in 1958, pappy was on a somingly endless downward spiral. >> he bounced from one job to another. he was on wife two at this point in time. he w he worked as a wrestling referee. he works for a brewery of all things. >> greg was this incredible hero that had a screw loose. there was no quit in him at all, zero. >> life in o