A Sniper in the Arizona: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967 - John Culbertson - Books - Random House USA Inc - 9780804118705 - March 1, 1999
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A Sniper in the Arizona: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967 1st edition

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"Morning was always a welcome sight to us.  It meant two things. The first was that we were still alive. . . ."

In 1967, death was the constant companion of the Marines of Hotel Company, 2/5, as they patrolled the paddy dikes, mud, and mountains of the Arizona Territory southwest of Da Nang. But John Culbertson and most of the rest of Hotel Company were the same lean, fighting Marines who had survived the carnage of Operation Tuscaloosa. Hotel's grunts walked over the enemy, not around him.

In graphic terms, John Culbertson describes the daily, dangerous life of a soldier fighting in a country where the enemy was frequently indistinguishable from the allies, fought tenaciously, and thought nothing of using civilians as a shield. Though he was one of the top marksmen in 1st Marine Division Sniper School in Da Nang in March 1967--a class of just eighteen, chosen from the division's twenty thousand Marines--Culbertson knew that against the VC and the NVA, good training and experience could carry you just so far. But his company's mission was to find and engage the enemy, whatever the price. This riveting, bloody first-person account offers a stark testimony to the stuff U. S. Marines are made of.

288 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 1, 1999
ISBN13 9780804118705
Publishers Random House USA Inc
Pages 288
Dimensions 106 × 174 × 15 mm   ·   140 g
Language English  

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