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This Book tells an exciting, and intriguing story of my training,
experiences, and relationships, as a U S Army Ranger in the Vietnam
War during 1969 to 1971 while performing recon-missions Behind
Enemy Lines. The story takes you on a journey from the physical war
in Vietnam to the spiritual warfare that goes on daily for your
soul. The spiritual uplifting message within its pages ignites your
faith into a blazing fire. You come alive. To survive in Vietnam
and come home alive required elite training, strong belief in our
training, mental and physical repetition of the training, and real
true relationships. If we got distracted, failed to pay attention,
disobeyed, ignored, or forgot what we were there to do; our
percentage of surviving was greatly reduce. There were many things
to distract us. Our minds and bodies got hooked up to drugs,
alcohol, sex, and the thrill of living on the edge. These are but a
few of the distractions available to us, before we even went on a
mission to face what our enemies had for us, or the snakes,
diseases, and animals of the jungle. This book tells a very
interesting and intriguing story of my experiences and
relationships performing reconnaissance missions Behind Enemy Lines
in the mountainous jungle region of South Vietnam and near the
Cambodian border. When I arrived, in Vietnam the first thing I
needed to do was de-program myself of most of the training I had
received from the Army while being trained in the Sates, prior to
arriving in Vietnam. For example; I had been taught to always
ambush from the high ground; that high ground determined the actual
site selection for an ambush. It sounded good and worked in World
War II and Korea, but this was guerilla warfare. My mentor, Tad
taught us first to monitor a trail by observing how the enemy was
traveling on the trail and when we had determined the direction of
travel, then always set our ambush on the right hand side of the
trail according to the enemy's route of March, regardless of the
height of the terrain. The reason is that most people, over 90 %,
are right handed and the enemy's weapons would be pointed away from
you as you set off the ambush. After a few hours, any soldier
running missions in the hot jungles of Southeast Asia would have
their attention span, focus, alertness, and weapons positions drop
off measurably, especially while they traveled through what they
perceived as their own safe territory. When you ambush to the right
of the trail, five Rangers would fire a full 20 round magazine from
an M-16 rifle in 2.3 seconds. That's 100 bullets into a kill zone
while the enemy freezes up for a second in shock from all the
firing. Once they realize what is happening, they fall to the
ground turning their weapons from the left to the right and try to
locate where the firing is coming from. That just took 2.8 seconds
and our hands are on the detonators of five claymore mines. Each
mine has hundreds of shrapnel like bee bees packed into them and
about a pound of C-4 explosive. The enemy's rifle hasn't even
gotten to their shoulder yet to fire before we detonate the
claymore mines, if needed, and the enemy; well that's why it's
called an ambush. The sixth person, a Ranger radio operator, was
behind us guarding our back with the radio and already our choppers
and support were coming. This story takes you from physical warfare
to Spiritual warfare in such a way that your faith will be renewed.
My prayer is that it sheds light on the battle between good (God)
and evil (Satan) that goes on daily for our souls. Sit back and
enjoy this short, powerful story. This books mission is; when you
reach the end of this book you will have an understanding of why
Jesus did what He did and why you need a relationship with Him. He
loves you and wants to have a relationship with you, one that will
change you from who you are, to a brand new person. You are the
Soul, purpose of this book. Author Danny Clifford
Ce libre vous raconte une emouvante et interessante histoire sur ma
formation, mes experiences et mes rapports, en tant que Sergent
d'etat-major de l'armee des Etats-Unis, dans la 75e Brigade de
Gardes Forestiers a Vietnam en 1969 et 1970, effectuant des
missions de reconnaissance Derriere les Lignes Ennemies....
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