Want an uplifting account of one young Army officer's service in
the Vietnam War? "Vietnam, A Memoir: Saigon Cop," is not it. The
focus of this book and of two later volumes in the series is war
stripped of glory, high purpose, inspiration, and easy but false
patriotism. Instead, the focus is on five Bs: booze, babes,
boredom, bureaucracy, and occasionally battle. Heroes are few.
Hyperbole is minimal.
Yet the tale is an unusual one. The author was an ROTC graduate
with no long term Army commitment. After serving a year as a
Military Police platoon leader in Saigon, a period that is the
subject of this first volume, he stayed in Vietnam for another year
and a half. His months as an infantry officer are covered in later
volumes.
Military Police duty in Saigon in 1966-67 was a surreal
combination of Army nitpicking on a stateside scale, protecting
U.S. facilities against Viet Cong terrorism, and policing the large
U.S. presence in the city. MPs lived, worked, and occasionally
played in the middle of an Oriental metropolis of strange sights,
sounds, and smells. Lengthy stretches of tedious, humdrum activity
were interrupted by sudden bursts of danger and fear.
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