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Quang Tri Cadence: Memoir of a Rifle Platoon Leader in the Mountains of Vietnam - Couverture souple

Oplinger, Jon

 
9780786477531: Quang Tri Cadence: Memoir of a Rifle Platoon Leader in the Mountains of Vietnam
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0786477539 ISBN 13 : 9780786477531
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2014

Synopsis

Having flunked out of college in the fall of 1965, the author enlisted in the U.S. Army. After basic training he was assigned to Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, an institution dedicated to the manufacture of the commodity the wartime army most quickly expends--rifle platoon leaders.

In June of 1968, he found himself leading a rifle platoon in D Company 2/5th, First Cavalry Division. Quang Tri Cadence draws upon the original maps used in Vietnam and upon the battalion radio logs which were recently declassified at the time of writing. Life in a rifle platoon is presented at the boot level with all its grit, bewilderment, fatigue and fear. This book is not about what the pentagon is pleased to call "violence processing"; this book is about ordinary events in strange places; it is about being "in the field" and coming home. The author's experiences at Kent State University during the shootings in May of 1970 are also recounted.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jon Oplinger is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Maine at Farmington. He lives in western Maine.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786477539
ISBN 13 
9780786477531
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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