02949nam 2200553 a 450 991077837790332120200520144314.00-8173-8032-9(CKB)1000000000479921(EBL)438179(OCoLC)182560405(SSID)ssj0000142233(PQKBManifestationID)11136234(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142233(PQKBWorkID)10096112(PQKB)11773035(MdBmJHUP)muse8629(Au-PeEL)EBL438179(CaPaEBR)ebr10387728(MiAaPQ)EBC438179(EXLCZ)99100000000047992120070130d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEagle days[electronic resource] a Marine legal/infantry officer in Vietnam /Don W. GriffisTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20071 online resource (194 p.)Includes index.0-8173-1578-0 Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; The Road to Vietnam; Going South; Learning the Ropes; Joining the Provisional Rifle Company and Early Legal Battles; The Chief of Staff Loses His Jeep; Summer 1968--Bracing for the Enemy's ""Third Wave"" Offensive; Typhoon Bess Meets the Chaplain; Patrols and Alarms; Night Assault; Racial Tensions Boil Over; Trials under Fire, a Trip to the Repose, and the Marine Corps Birthday; A Difficult Client; Thanksgiving and a Trip to Saigon; War in the Christmas Season; Bringing in the New Year; R&R Down Under; Back to Reality; Looking for TroubleTet 1969 and New Threats A Life-and-Death Drama; Murder at Chu Lai; Keeping the Pressure On; Easter and Operations in the Spring; Final Days; Going Home; Glossary of Military Terms and Acronyms; IndexMuch has been written about America's war in Vietnam, and an enduring and troubling subtext is the composition of the body of soldiers that made up the U.S. troop deployment: from the initially well-trained and disciplined group of largely elite units that served in the mid-sixties to what has been termed an "armed mob" by the end of that decade and into the early 1970's. Drug use, insubordination, racial antagonism that often became violent, theft and black market dealing, and even "fragging" (murder of officers and senior noncoms by disgruntled troops) marred the record of the U.S. military....Vietnam War, 1961-1975Personal narratives, AmericanSoldiersUnited StatesDiariesVietnam War, 1961-1975Soldiers959.704/3092BGriffis Don W(Donald Warner),1942-1577558MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778377903321Eagle days3856215UNINA