TY  - GEN
T1  - Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Vietnam, 1968-1969.
A1  - Worthington, Bob
LA  - English
PP  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - McFarland and Company, Inc. : McFarland
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1286629143
AB  - 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.
CN  - DS559.5 .W678 2021eb
SN  - 9781476643960
SN  - 1476643962
SN  - 9781476679419
SN  - 147667941X
KW  - Worthington, Bob, : 1937-
KW  - United States. : Army : Officers : Biography.
KW  - United States. : Army
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 : Personal narratives, American.
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 : Campaigns.
KW  - Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 : Campagnes et batailles.
KW  - Vietnam War.
KW  - Military.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - Armed Forces : Officers
KW  - Military campaigns
KW  - 1961-1975
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Personal narratives : American
ER  -