Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 March 1967
Chapter 2 A Backward Glance
Chapter 3 Basic Decision
Chapter 4 OCS
Chapter 5 I Dream of Jeanie
Chapter 6 The Rainbow
Chapter 7 Coconut Cocktails and Odds ‘n’ Ends
Chapter 8 A Full Day's Work
Chapter 9 Frenchy to Montezuma to the Sea
Chapter 10 Bong Son Plains
Chapter 11 Mountain Missions
Chapter 12 Patrols in the An Lao Valley
Chapter 13 Stand-Down
Chapter 14 Village of Lo Dieu
Chapter 15 Cs, Sundries, and Doughnuts
Chapter 16 Pop Smoke
Chapter 17 Night Patrol
Chapter 18 Highway One and the General
Chapter 19 Wow!
Chapter 20 The S4
Chapter 21 Those Magic NCOs
Chapter 22 The Chick(s) and Egg Thing
Chapter 23 S4 Helicopters
Chapter 24 Love and the Officers of the Round Table
Chapter 25 The Chaplin, the Latrine, and a Hot Shower
Chapter 26 Thanksgiving and Christmas 1967
Chapter 27 Tet 1968
Chapter 28 Home at Last
Epilogue
Appendix A Excerpts from Letters
Appendix B Charlie Company, Second Battalion, Fifth Cavalry Regiment Operational Reports, March 1967 to March 1968
Appendix C Thanksgiving 1967
Appendix D Christmas 1967
Appendix E Faces of Vietnam
Appendix F Reflections on Leadership
Appendix G Glossary