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Vietnam Was Boring
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Author : Ronald C. Griffith
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Vietnam Was Boring written by Ronald C. Griffith and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with History categories.
Vietnam was Boring If I had to describe my thirteen months in Vietnam with one word, that one word would be, “Boring”. I know this idea of having a boring time in Vietnam does not fit with your perception of Vietnam. All you hear about in books, movies, or documentaries revolve around combat actions. It takes about seven men or women, to support one man in the field. I was one of those seven. The Army was so concerned about our safety, the Marine division, in the compound next to ours, had orders to get us out safely or take us out. They were not to let us be captured. One professional critic considered my credibility in question because he knew more about my experiences in Vietnam than I did. He expected a tale of combat operations with men suffering or dying along with other acts of heroism. Our compound in Phu Bai was considered so safe that there was no need for us to carry ammunition. We were required to have our rifles with us when we went to work but not during the day. Ammunition was readily available. In Vietnam, I worked an average of 28-29 swing shifts a month from 16:00 to 23:30. In one stretch, I worked 62 straight swing shifts without a day off. After eating the midnight meal, almost everyone stayed up until at least 03:30-04:00 before feeling safe enough to go to bed. By the time I woke-up, took a shower, and got dressed, I either went to a late noon meal or waited until the meal for the swing shift starting at 15:30. This was my routine for thirteen months. I was out of our compound once to visit the rifle range and maybe six times to the Marine PX located next to our compound in the Phu Bai complex. I left the Phu Bai complex for a week of R and R in Japan. My first and only look at Vietnam was on my way home. They gave me a two day leave in Saigon, before sending me home. These were the only two times I was off a military base during my 13 months in Vietnam.The daily routine in Vietnam was boring. The only thing I found fascinating and a challenge about Vietnam was the mission in Operations. I found my work as a “Ditty Bopper” a great break from the dull camp routine. A “Ditty Bopper” works with Morse code. All I had to do was sit back, relax, and listen to the radio while I enjoyed another cigarette with my fresh hot cup of coffee. Yes, life was tough in our air-conditioned rooms, comfortable beds with clean linen, regular mail, an Enlisted Men's Club, four hot square meals a day, and a swimming pool for part of the time I was there. Work was the only thing that broke the boredom of Vietnam except for the month after the start of the Tet Offensive in January 1968. I believe most of my fellow soldiers did the best they could in Operations. In reality, most of us were just putting in our time until it was our turn to climb onto the “Freedom Bird” for our trip back to the “Land of the Round Eyes”. Join me in my three year, nine month, and four day adventure in the Top Secret world of the Army Security Agency. I will take you through my decision to join the Army in August of 1964, basic training at Fort Ord, CA., and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Devens, MA. My training was as a Manual Morse Intercept Operator. I was able to receive code at 30 words per minute. I was Top Honor Graduate in my class. This netted me a “Plum” assignment in Bad Aibling, Germany. This duty station was located half way between Munich, Germany and Salzburg, Austria. My specific assignment was to copy the Russian and East German messages to and from their spies throughout the world. After two years of my three-year tour of duty, I requested reassignment to Vietnam. The next thirteen months were spent copying the North Vietnamese Army Reserve units while stationed at Phu Bai, about 35 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone near the ancient imperial capital of Hue. (pronounced, “whey”) Now you can enjoy my experiences during my adventure in the elite, Top Secret world of the Army Security Agency.
The Bad War
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Author : Kim Willenson
language : en
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Release Date : 1987
The Bad War written by Kim Willenson and has been published by Dutton Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The chronology and personal interviews present a variety of opinions of the Vietnam War.
Vietnamerica
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Author : GB Tran
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Group
Release Date : 2013-05-01
Vietnamerica written by GB Tran and has been published by Ballantine Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But even as they struggled to adapt to life in America, they preferred to forget the past—and to focus on their children’s future. It was only in his late twenties that GB began to learn their extraordinary story. When his last surviving grandparents die within months of each other, GB visits Vietnam for the first time and begins to learn the tragic history of his family, and of the homeland they left behind. In this family saga played out in the shadow of history, GB uncovers the root of his father’s remoteness and why his mother had remained in an often fractious marriage; why his grandfather had abandoned his own family to fight for the Viet Cong; why his grandmother had had an affair with a French soldier. GB learns that his parents had taken harrowing flight from Saigon during the final hours of the war not because they thought America was better but because they were afraid of what would happen if they stayed. They entered America—a foreign land they couldn’t even imagine—where family connections dissolved and shared history was lost within a span of a single generation. In telling his family’s story, GB finds his own place in this saga of hardship and heroism. Vietnamerica is a visually stunning portrait of survival, escape, and reinvention—and of the gift of the American immigrants’ dream, passed on to their children. Vietnamerica is an unforgettable story of family revelation and reconnection—and a new graphic-memoir classic.
A Bad Attitude
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Author : Dennis Mansker
language : en
Publisher: Writer's Showcase Press
Release Date : 2002
A Bad Attitude written by Dennis Mansker and has been published by Writer's Showcase Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
Meet Farnsworth—reluctant soldier and world-class slacker... but is he also a cold-blooded murderer? And if he didn't kill the sadistic Sergeant Bragg, who did? See the other side of the Vietnam war: Draftees versus lifers, the Saigon black market, deteriorating race relations, and the deadly 1968 race riot at Long Binh Jail.
It S Not All Bad
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Author : George Elrod
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Release Date : 2009
It S Not All Bad written by George Elrod and has been published by Tate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Anxiety categories.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go for a helicopter ride holding on to a mountain lion? Probably not, and why would you? Have you ever obeyed the doctor's orders only to be 'volunteered' for a one-way cruise to Viet Nam? The Viet Nam war was terrible, but there were moments of greatness and even humor. In It's Not All Bad: A Lighter Look at Viet Nam, George Elrod shares his often-humorous experiences as a young man drafted into the military. He reveals moments of heroic humor, irony, and satire while revealing a side of the war that many overlook but is necessary for the healing process. Readers will laugh their way along as George Elrod takes them step-by-step through his tour of duty in It's Not All Bad. Visit California, Washington, Germany, and Viet Nam, from boot camp to battle zone; each has its own funny moments compliments of the United States Army. It's Not All Bad skips the blood and guts of most war chronicles as George chooses to look at the lighter side of life, even in a war zone.
Deros Vietnam
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Author : Doug Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Warriors Publishing Group
Release Date : 2012-09-07
Deros Vietnam written by Doug Bradley and has been published by Warriors Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-07 with Fiction categories.
DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle presents a unique, fictional montage of the war, and postwar, experiences of Vietnam support troops. Structurally based on Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, DEROS Vietnam (the acronym stands for Date Eligible for Return from Over Seas) is a riveting collection of 16 short stories and 16 interlinears about the GIs who battled boredom, racial tensions, the military brass, drugs, alcohol—and occasionally the enemy. From cooks and correspondents to clerks and comptrollers, DEROS Vietnam distills the essence of life for soldiers in the rear during the war and, later, back home in a divided America. Vietnam veteran Doug Bradley, a former Army journalist who served in the air-conditioned jungle at U. S. Army Headquarters near Saigon in 1970-71, tells these compelling stories with wit, intensity, and empathy. In doing so, he provides a gateway to a Vietnam experience that has been largely ignored and whose reverberations still echo across America.
Vietnam
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Author : Andrew Wiest
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-04-20
Vietnam written by Andrew Wiest and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-20 with History categories.
From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the human experience during the conflict. Vietnam allows the reader a grunt's-eye-view of the conflict – from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands and the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ. It is the definitive oral history of the Vietnam War told in the uncompromising, no-holds barred language of the soldiers themselves.
Politically Incorrect Guide To The Vietnam War
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Author : Phillip Jennings
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-02-02
Politically Incorrect Guide To The Vietnam War written by Phillip Jennings and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-02 with Political Science categories.
The Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failure—at least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe. Yet, Phillip Jennings sets the record straight in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War. In this latest “P.I.G.”, Jennings shatters culturally-accepted myths and busts politically incorrect lies that liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling you for years. The Vietnam War was the most important—and successful—campaign to defeat Communism. Without the sacrifices made and the courage displayed by our military, the world might be a different place. The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.
The Complete Idiot S Guide To The Vietnam War 2nd Edition
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Author : Timothy P. Maga Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-09-07
The Complete Idiot S Guide To The Vietnam War 2nd Edition written by Timothy P. Maga Ph.D. and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-07 with History categories.
A long ago war-still relevant today Misunderstanding remains, and a lot is still unknown, of the Vietnam War. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Vietnam War, Second Edition provides an updated and revised guide giving readers the facts. It assesses policies and the reasons for them, shedding light on the controversies regarding the Vietnam War, what has been called the most complicated armed conflict of the 20th century. It offers: • A big-picture look at the politics, public figures, and history of the war in Southeast Asia • Present-tense relevance of Vietnam to the current wars in which the United States, and the rest of the world, is involved • Clarification of details for those who lived through it and an explanation for younger generations
Nam The Vietnam War In The Words Of The Men And Women Who Fought There
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Author : mark Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Nam The Vietnam War In The Words Of The Men And Women Who Fought There written by mark Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.
