Leslie A. Chapman

Secret Soldiers of the Second Army (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book starts out picturing a young man who foolishly wants to go to war where he in vision's himself receiving all these high class medals for heroism but never once taking into account what it is going to take physically and mentally to get those medals. He's constantly playing a head game within himself and those that surround him. He like so many other young men of past eras are trying to be something that they're not and that small initial lie grows into a tremendous reputation that he has to live with and soon regrets that he's known by such. Come walk with the author and his brothers of the sword through the dark, humid, unforgiving jungles of Vietnam and experience the death, destruction, and mental sacrificial anguish they had to endure. Come see why you fear being alone in the denseness of a jungle or a forest that you have never entered before. Feel the heat of the Asian jungle floor intermixed with the leaches, ants, mosquitoes, snakes and humans searching you out only to destroy you at any cost. You see our author starts out innocently enough but soon finds out that war is not only a physical hardship demanding its pounds of flesh, but also is a horrendous mental agonizing hazard from which there is only one means of escape and/or retreat. That means to an end is death. Yes the author and his brothers of the sword will take their heroic missions and sacrificial allegiances to the grave with them. But, the real tragedy of it all is no one really cares about them in the first place. For they were and still are the "Secret Soldiers of the Second Army" willing to go anywhere, any time, to do the impossible for the ungrateful.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781452067704
• Artikelnr.: 51597624

Autorenporträt

The author joined the Army in August of 1966, finished Basic Training at Fort Ord California, then went to Fort Benning Georgia where he attend Jump School then onto his final destination Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he underwent Special Forces training. The author spent four tours in Vietnam, one with Company C, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) then three tours with Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group-Command and Control North (MACV-SOG-CCN) running deep penetration reconnaissance missions and ultimately flying code name Covey (Forward Air Controller). The Author was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for Gallantry in action, the Silver Star for Valor, five Bronze Stars w/V for Valor, four Army Commendation Medals w/V for Valor, eight Air Medals w/V for Valor, Presidential Unit Citation, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm, and other service awards. The author spent four years in Panama with the 7th Special Forces Group on A-5 the Airborne Committee for South America. Left Panama to perform a tour of duty with Recruiting Command station out of Las Vegas Nevada then onto the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger where he served as the S-3 (Operations and Training) then as a First Sergeant in Headquarters Company. Left the Ranger Battalion to undergo training at the Sergeants Majors Academy then reporting to his retirement destination of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. From 1966 to 1987 the Author served faithfully in the United States Army.