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A seasoned journalist who rose through the ranks presents an infantry company commander's insight into his soldiers' daily struggle to survive. His vivid prose explains why his brave "grunts" are still haunted by the experience and lack of public respect.
- Sales Rank: #4013854 in Books
- Published on: 2004-05-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .42" w x 5.51" l, .53 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 184 pages
Review
"...this book is the best description that I have ever read of what an infantryman experienced day and night." -- LTC Cecil Carlile, U.S. Army (Retired)
"Hell of a read for anyone wanting to know the Grunts' heroic story from the Vietnam War." -- LTG Hank Emerson, U.S. Army (Retired)
From the Publisher
A seasoned journalist who rose through the ranks presents an infantry company commander’s insight into his soldiers’ daily struggles to survive. His vivid prose explains why his brave "grunts" are still haunted by the experience and lack of public respect.
From the Author
This book describes what it was like to be an infantryman fighting on Vietnam's coastal plain and in the jungles in the area known as II Corps and I Corps. The years described include 1967-1968 and 1970-1971. Those are the years I served in that war, and the men whose actions I describe are either South Vietnamese soldiers whom I advised during my first tour, or American soldiers whom I led during my second tour.
These are my memories of the beauty and the ugliness of South Vietnam, of the monsoons, the odors, the rattle of machine guns, the tracers lashing the darkness, the misery and the humor, and the tough life of an infantryman in Charlie Company.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
I was with him
By Gale Rauschenberger
As one of the men who followed Lee Basnar in Charlie Company as an infantryman, I can attest to the accuracy of Lee's book. The book is right on the mark in its telling of Charlie Company's battles, time in the field near Landing Zone Stinson, and its trials under fire in a war that was one of the nations most unpopular. You will feel Basnar's emotion as you read the book and you will find it hard to put down. You will rage at the decisions of higher ranking commanders who tried to mico manage Basnar's battle field from a helicopter at 2,000 ft. until they realized that Basnar didn't need them.
Basnar brings back, in vivid detail, the company's encounters with the enemy and his reaction to those encounters as Charlie Company's commander.
From the jungles of the high ground and Tra Bong river, Basnar takes his readers through the dangerous missions he led and personally fought in. You will visit infamous places like the rocket pocket, the jungled mountain ridges west of Chu Lia, near the Laos border, and the lowland area known by the troops as Dodge City, a place where Lee earned his nick name, "The Marshal of Dodge City. " It was a terrible area for American troops, near Mia Lia 1,2 and 3, where the hedge rows were full of booby traps and the snipers were everywhere. But Basnar earned his reputation by dealing efficiently in that environment. Our Kit Carson scout, Kim, an X-Viet Cong who came over to our side, once told me in broken English, as we set up our camp , "They know who Basnar is. They are afraid of him. He is smart." "They" were the Viet Cong. Kim had many relatives on the other side. He often communicated with females in his family who kept him posted on his other relatives, a very dangerous group of men, who like Kim, had been fighting for over a dozen years. You don't earn the respect of men like that unless you are good at what you do, very good.
When you read Basnar's prose, you will realize it is the prose of a professional infantryman, a man that deserves the Combat Infantrymen's Badge as much as any man. He knew his job and you will understand just how well he knew it after reading the book. He was a smart, straight shooting commanding officer who expected as much of himself as he did from us.
I was reminded by reading the book how he turned our demoralized company around, and, after the change, how proud I was to serve under him as a young point man and later as a squad leader. If you read the book, you will see why the black scarfed men of Charlie Co. 1/52nd Infantry Battalion would have followed Basnar anywhere. They new he cared about them as well as the mission, and that made all the difference because it made him one of us. Even today, as our hair greys and our memories of many things fade. The memory of Basnar is still strong in our minds.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Women can understand this soldier
By B. Short
In Vietnam Vignettes, Lee Basnar paints War with broad strokes, a War that could have occurred over a hundred years ago in our own South, or today in the MidEast. The horrors, fear and anxiety remain the same. Loneliness, wet feet, wounded friends, heavy packs, cookies from home. Scenes we all have experienced second-hand in movies and books.
Yet across those broad strokes, Basnar paints finely detailed vignettes we have not seen, portraits of many moods. Facing the hatred in the eyes of a widow holding the bullet-riddled body of her husband as she contemplates grim life without him, and murmuring a heartfelt, "I'm sorry". Reading the message from a bounding deer that stopped and peered over her shoulder, a danger alert which allowed him to kill the skilled enemy who had been booby-trapping his men. Tapping his boot to dislodge any intruders, yet finding a new ant colony when he plunged his foot in, resulting in a one-legged dance his men found hilarious.
From those portraits we conjure up the soul of a man who is not only a citizen of the world, accepting the best and the worst humans have to offer, but the spirit of a man who is part of the universe around him. Basnar allows us into the mind of a man that every woman wants to protect her, and maybe love her. But she will settle for having him lead her sons through safely and send them home.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent!
By Kathy
I loved this book. It's short, fast-paced, and it really grabbed me. It is neither pro- nor anti-war, does not idealize war, and does not demonize the Viet Cong. It just tells it like it was. It shows you the action or the pathos or the humor, letting it hit you the way it hit the author at the time. I recommend it to everyone who wants to know what it was like to participate in the Vietnam War. As a female college student without any friends or relatives fighting in the war, I didn't read a lot about the war when it was happening. Of course, I saw the unsettling pictures of the fighting in magazines and on the TV news, and I attended many war "teach-ins" and discussions on campus. But it wasn't until reading this book that I really understood what the soldiers experienced over there. Everyone should read it. I'll be sending copies of it as Christmas gifts this year.
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