Fort Benning Blues

Author : Mark Busby
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875655408
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Benning Blues written by Mark Busby and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've never even been to Southeast Asia, can you be a Vietnam veteran? In a novel that captures the life and times of a generation, Mark Busby takes us on a journey through an era of hippies, the shootings at Kent State University, integration, and Woodstock. Fort Benning Blues tells the story of Vietnam from this side of the ocean. Drafted in 1969, Jeff Adams faces a war he doesn't understand. While trying to delay the inevitable tour of duty in Vietnam, Adams attends Officer Candidate School in Fort Benning, Georgia, desperately hoping Nixon will achieve “peace with honor” before he graduates. The Army's job is to weed out the “duds,” “turkeys,” and “dummies” in an effort to keep not only the officers but also the men under their command alive in the rice paddies of Vietnam. It doesn't take long for the stress to create casualties. Lieutenant Rancek, Adams' training officer at OCS, is ready to cut candidates from the program for any perceived weakness. He does this, not for the Army, but because he wants only the best “. . . leading the platoon on my right” when he goes to Vietnam. Hugh Budwell, one of Adams' roommates, brings the laid-back spirit of California with him to Fort Benning. Tired of practicing estate law, he joins the Army to relieve the boredom he feels pervades his life. About Officer Candidate School, Budwell states, “If I wanted to go through it without any trouble, I'd be wondering about myself.” Candidate Patrick “Sheriff” Garrett, a black southerner, spends a night with Adams in the low-crawl pit after they both raise Rancek's ire. Expecting racism when he joined the Army, Garrett copes better than most with the rigors of Officer Candidate School. Busby uses song lyrics, newspaper headlines, and the jargon of the era to bring the sixties and seventies alive again. Henry Kissinger is described as “Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove” and Lieutenant William “Rusty” Calley as “Howdy Doody in uniform.” Of My Lai, Busby says, “At Fort Benning everybody took those actions as a matter of course.” As America continues to try to comprehend the effects of one of the most transforming eras in our history, Fort Benning Blues adds another perspective to the meaning of being a Vietnam veteran.

Author : Shelby L. Stanton
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811729505
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U. S. Army Uniforms of the Cold War, 1948-1973 written by Shelby L. Stanton and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talks about the evolution of Army uniforms from World War II to Vietnam. This work traces uniform systems from conception through actual field development and issue.

Author : Lucian K. Truscott
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497663490
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Blue written by Lucian K. Truscott and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Dress Gray. “Part-war story, part-family saga . . . zeroes in on the men of the Blue family, three generations of soldiers” (The Washington Post). In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his first novel, Dress Gray, Truscott turns his attention to the Vietnam War and delivers a suspenseful, sprawling court-martial drama set in Saigon in 1969. At twenty-three, platoon leader Lt. Matthew Nelson Blue is the youngest member of an army family; his father is a colonel and his grandfather a profane, cantankerous retired general. Shortly after one of his men is killed by friendly fire while on routine patrol, Blue is arrested and charged with desertion in the face of the enemy. Arriving in Vietnam, his father and grandfather end their long estrangement and join forces to clear the young soldier’s name. Truscott’s plot offers less than initially meets the eye; the nature of the conspiracy and cover-up that nearly destroy Blue is fairly easy to predict, as is the disillusionment about Vietnam that eventually befalls his seniors. The author’s intimate portrayal of the texture of army life gives his narrative a more deeply felt sense of anger and regret than others in its genre, and makes its final revelations more powerful than they might otherwise have been.

Author : Zachary Yates
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1681396467
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Moon Trilogy written by Zachary Yates and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Author : Virginia Estes Causey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354996
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Clay, White Water & Blues written by Virginia Estes Causey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbus is the third-largest city in Georgia, and Red Clay, White Water, and Blues is its first comprehensive history. Virginia E. Causey documents the city's founding in 1828 and brings its story to the present, examining the economic, political, social, and cultural changes over the period. It is the first history of the city that analyzes the significant contributions of all its citizens, including African Americans, women, and the working class. Causey, who has lived and worked in Columbus for more than forty years, focuses on three defining characteristics of the city's history: the role that geography has played in its evolution, specifically its location on the Chattahoochee River along the Fall Line, making it an ideal place to establish water-powered textile mills; the fact that the control of city's affairs rested in the hands of a particular business elite; and the endemic presence of violence that left a "bloody trail" throughout local history. Causey traces the life of Columbus: its founding and early boom years; the Civil War and its aftermath; conflicts as a modern city emerged in the first half of the twentieth century; racial tension and economic decline in the mid-to-late 1900s; and rebirth and revival of the city in the twenty-first century. Peppered throughout are compelling anecdotes about the city's most colorful characters, including Sol Smith and His Dramatic Company, music phenom Blind Tom Wiggins, suffragist Augusta Howard, industrialist and philanthropist G. Gunby Jordan, peanut purveyor Tom Huston, blueswoman Ma Rainey, novelist Carson McCullers, and insurance magnate John Amos.

Author : Willard Latham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Volunteer Army Program written by Willard Latham and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Baugh
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595278663
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Skies of Blue written by James Baugh and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tells the experiences of a country boy growing up in a small town in Georgia, going through school in a military environment and working on a farm. He worked his way through the University of Georgia and was called to military service just before going to the Medical College of Georgia. This is the story of how these experiences impacted his life.

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317661877
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam War Slang written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration’s escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by members of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. Troops facing and inflicting death display a high degree of linguistic creativity. Vietnam was the last American war fought by an army with conscripts, and their involuntary participation in the war added a dimension to the language. War has always been an incubator for slang; it is brutal, and brutality demands a vocabulary to describe what we don’t encounter in peacetime civilian life. Furthermore, such language serves to create an intense bond between comrades in the armed forces, helping them to support the heavy burdens of war. The troops in Vietnam faced the usual demands of war, as well as several that were unique to Vietnam – a murky political basis for the war, widespread corruption in the ruling government, untraditional guerilla warfare, an unpredictable civilian population in Vietnam, and a growing lack of popular support for the war back in the US. For all these reasons, the language of those who fought in Vietnam was a vivid reflection of life in wartime. Vietnam War Slang lays out the definitive record of the lexicon of Americans who fought in the Vietnam War. Assuming no prior knowledge, it presents around 2000 headwords, with each entry divided into sections giving parts of speech, definitions, glosses, the countries of origin, dates of earliest known citations, and citations. It will be an essential resource for Vietnam veterans and their families, students and readers of history, and anyone interested in the principles underpinning the development of slang.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Official Horse Show Blue Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Illinois. Office of Secretary of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Book of the State of Illinois written by Illinois. Office of Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: