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Bezig met laden... Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam Wardoor Ed Kugler
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Ágætis innsýn í líf vandræðaunglings sem gerist sjálfboðaliði í Víetnamstríðinu. Þvælist í gegnum leyniskyttuþjálfun og erfitt líf hermanns. Nokkuð opinskár um drykkju og vandræði sín auk þess hve klúðurslegt herskipulag herdeilda Bandaríkjahers var oft á tíðum. Mjög hrá saga en verður að lesast sem slík. ( ) Vietnam memoir of a young Marine who volunteered to become a Scout Sniper and then ran a bunch of missions, led a group (the "Rogues"), and experimented with some novel tactics. Focuses primarily on the people he was with and and actions during Vietnam (rather than technical details or politics), and gives good insight into the character of Marines during the conflict. This gave me a new appreciation of what the military and Marines do. This helped me understand what our soldiers' go through during war that we can't fully comprehend unless we have been through it. It allowed me to realize why soldiers when home do not talk about what they have experienced. It gave me a different outlook on Vietnam than the traditional textbook viewpoint. It also gave me a glimpse into how bureaucracy can screw up something so badly. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST. Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966. As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts. To take advantage of that experience, he formed the Rogues, a five-sniper team that hunted in the Co Bi-Than Tan Valley for VC and NVA. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and NVA countersniper ambushes are fascinating. In DEAD CENTER, Kugler demonstrates the importance to a sniper of patience, marksmanship, bush skills, and guts--while underscoring exactly what a country demands of its youth when it sends them to war. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)959.7043092History and Geography Asia Southeast Asia Vietnam 1949- 1961–1975 Vietnamese WarLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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