Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat : memoir of a combat adviser in Vietnam, 1968-1969 / Bob Worthington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worthington, Bob, 1937- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns.

Armed Forces--Officers.

Military campaigns.

Worthington, Bob, 1937-.

Worthington, Bob.

United States. Army--Officers--Biography.

United States.

United States. Army.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- American.

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

x, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"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 after years of fighting, the enemy remained determined, no nearer defeat. Americans grew war weary and soured on their government's involvement while politicians and top military leaders could not agree on how to win or how to withdraw. Between combat tours, Bob Worthington 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. Worthington's 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. Assigned to Saigon to recuperate, he was tasked with creating an advisor 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 four combat awards"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cambodian border, November 1968, second tour

January 1967, back home from first Vietnam tour

Moving into Fort Benning

Basic combat training Company Commander

Vietnam, second time around

Combat flying in Vietnam : low and slow

Flight to Bao Trai

District Senior Advisor at Trang Bang

Combat operations in Trang Bang

Overnight operations in Trang Bang

Dying in the morgue

More combat around Trang Bang

Firefly missions

Being promoted for doing a good job as a DSA

Duty in Saigon : what a way to fight a war

Moving to the Rung Sat Special Zone

Training RF Company 117 for commando raids

Combat operations against the Viet Cong

Attack on a major Viet Cong base camp

R&R in Hawaii

Chieu Hoi

Sailors and hand grenades

Leaving Vietnam

Leaving active duty

Epilogue

Bob Worthington military history.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781476679419

147667941X

OCLC:

1260821021

Publisher Number:

99989233697