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Rice Paddy War - A Marine Recon Officer's Second Tour in Vietnam, 1968-1970 (Paperback)
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Rice Paddy War - A Marine Recon Officer's Second Tour in Vietnam, 1968-1970 (Paperback)
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This book recounts the experiences of a young US Marine officer
during the Vietnam War as he fights that war over a nineteen month
period in three different geographical areas of South Vietnam. He
graphically explains to the reader what it was like to perform
three distinct combat missions: long-range ground reconnaissance in
the Annamite Mountains of I Corps, infantry operations in the rice
paddies and mountains of Quang Nam Province, and special police
operations for the CIA in Tay Ninh Province. The author describes
in rich detail each of these distinct military activities and
provides powerful and explicit examples of each. Using primary
sources, such has US Marine Corps official unit histories, CIA
documents, and his weekly letters home to his parents, the author
relies almost exclusively on primary sources to convey to the
reader a story that is devoid of hyperbole and focused on providing
an accurate and honest account of combat at the small unit level.
Of particular interest to students of the war is his description of
his assignment to the CIA as a Provincial Reconnaissance Unit (PRU)
advisor in Tay Ninh Province, where he participated in several
secret missions as part of the controversial Phoenix Program. He
also reveals the name and contribution of the CIA's most valuable
spy during the war, the famous "Tay Ninh Source".
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