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Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat - Memoir of a Combat Adviser in Vietnam, 1968-1969 (Paperback)
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Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat - Memoir of a Combat Adviser in Vietnam, 1968-1969 (Paperback)
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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.
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