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Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Vietnam, 1968-1969

Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Vietnam, 1968-1969 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bob WorthingtonPublish date:2021-11-12Pages:283
Language:EnglishPublisher:McFarland & CompanyISBN-13:9781476679419ISBN-10:147667941XUPC:9781476679419Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Vietnam WarSize:8.80 x 5.80 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC9GXAE5N4

The Vietnam War was not going well in 1968. The January Tet Offensive--a tactical defeat but strategic victory for North Vietnam--showed the U.S. military and the American public that the enemy remained determined, no nearer defeat. Americans grew war weary while politicians and military leaders could not agree on how to win or how to withdraw.

Between combat tours, the author served as a U.S. Army company commander--a job he came to despise. Experiencing what he perceived as a degradation in the Army's senior command, he resigned his commission. Yet he needed money to complete graduate school and volunteered to return to Vietnam as a combat advisor.

This memoir describes his participation in the fiercest fighting of the war, on the Cambodian border, where he almost died of hookworm and was shot in a night operation. In Saigon to recuperate, he was tasked with creating an advisory team to train South Vietnamese commandos to conduct raids in the swamps south of Saigon, the Rung Sat Special Zone. For seven months they were successful, with Worthington receiving seven combat decorations.

Language:EnglishPublisher:McFarland & CompanyISBN-13:9781476679419ISBN-10:147667941XUPC:9781476679419Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Vietnam WarSize:8.80 x 5.80 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC9GXAE5N4
The late Bob Worthington was a retired Army officer with 15 years in the infantry and special operations and 10 years as a clinical psychologist. He was also a retired university professor, having taught psychology, business and journalism, and an award-winning writer of 2600+ publications. He lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Publisher: McFarland & Company

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