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vietnam army
Product details
- ISBN 9780786467297
- Weight: 290g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Aug 2011
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Faced with a 1-A draft classification after graduation from college in the spring of 1968, the author decided to control his own destiny by volunteering for the draft. Soon he was given the one job he most wanted to avoid--infantryman.
This is a foot soldier's story of twelve long months in Vietnam. Assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, much of his time was spent fighting a guerrilla war along the Cambodian border during the "Vietnamization" program. Day-to-day platoon operations produced dread, fear, bafflement, loyalty, disillusionment and ecstasy among the men fighting and dying in the jungle. The lack of leadership, both military and political, exacerbated the conditions.
Dennis Kitchin grew up in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of the University of Dayton, Ohio. He is the author of several travel books—on the United States, Ireland and New Zealand (upcoming). He lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
