E. Tayloe Wise served in Vietnam from May 1969 through April 1970.
During those 11 months, he wrote an estimated 750-800 letters home.
This memoir is based on those letters, which recounted the details
of his experiences and also served as an outlet where he could
express the terror, tedium and even boredom of his daily life while
in Vietnam. It tells the story of the Vietnam War as this foot
soldier viewed it from the jungle, as both a rifleman and a combat
medic who was forced to learn his medical skills under fire, and
who later became a personal waiter in the private mess hall of
Major General E.B. Roberts, the Commanding General of the 1st
Cavalry Division (Air Mobile).
The story begins with a record of Wises military history, his
training as an infantryman in Leesville, Louisiana and his arrival
in Vietnam on May 2, 1969. Chapter two details his first experience
under enemy fire on May 11, when suicide squads penetrated their
perimeter with the purpose of inflicting the maximum amount of
damage with disregard to even the attackers' own lives. Chapters
five and six recount the August 1969 battle of LZ Becky, a landing
zone that was constructed just south of the Cambodian border and
was destroyed only four weeks later. Chapter seven relates Wises
experiences after receiving a job as a waiter in the Commander
Generals mess hall. On April 9, 1970, his service ended and he
headed home. The book contains diagrams of several battles and the
authors personal photographs taken while he was in the jungle and
in the rear echelon area of Phuoc Vinh.
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