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Eagle Days : A Marine Legal/Infantry Officer in Vietnam.
Title:
Eagle Days : A Marine Legal/Infantry Officer in Vietnam.
Author:
Griffis, Donald W.
ISBN:
9780817380328
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (194 pages)
Contents:
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 Trouble -- Tet 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 Militarty Terms and Acronyms -- Index.
Abstract:
Much 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 1970s. 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 presence. Don Griffis served in the twin roles of legal officer charged at various times with the task of both defending and prosecuting servicemen, while at the same time leading combat patrols in "search and destroy" missions against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese enemy. Eagle Days is a remarkable account of Griffis' personal record of experiencing what the military should do best-meet, engage, and defeat the enemy-and what it becomes when esprit de corps, discipline, and a sense of purpose decay.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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