Elite Bastards : The Combat Missions of Company F, LRP Teams in Vietnam / Edward L. Dvorak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dvorak, Edward L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations, American.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, England : Pen & Sword Books Limited, [2023]

Summary:

The quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier fighting in the jungles of Vietnam.This is the quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier at war. Edward Dvorak joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam in the summer of 1967. He then joined Company F, 51st Infantry, Long Range Patrol, Airborne.For Dvorak and his buddies of Company F, LRP, their real training started with the MACV (Military Assistant Command Vietnam) Recondo School at the 5th Special Forces Compound in Nha Trang, South Vietnam. That training culminated with an actual Combat LRP mission. If you lived through the patrol, you graduated.Dvorak would remain with Company F for 19 months going on dozens of combat patrols deep behind enemy lines.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

The First Three Principles of a Lurp's Field Manual

A Combat Seasoned Lurp's Opinion

Prologue

Chapter 1 You're in the Army Now

Chapter 2 The 173rd Airborne Brigade (aka The Herd)

Chapter 3 Dak To

Chapter 4 Walking point for the 4th Battalion of the 173rd Abn Brigade

Chapter 5 My Fifth Act of Volunteering

Chapter 6 MACV Recondo School

Chapter 7 The First Mission as a Lurp

Chapter 8 In the Rear Routine

Chapter 9 Training for LURPS, Repelling and McQuire Rigs

Chapter 10 A Lurp Team's Mission Preparations

Chapter 11 First Contact for Team 1-5

Chapter 12 Top of Lurp Pride, Bottom of the Patrol List

Chapter 13 New Year, a Festive and Dangerous Holiday

Chapter 14 Continuing Pre-TET Missions

Chapter 15 1968 TET Offensive, Phase 1

Chapter 16 The E-Ticket Ride: Pre-Tet, 1968

Chapter 17 The Tet Offensive

Phase II, The Attack

Chapter 18 Shit Burning Detail

Chapter 19 Post-Tet, February 4, 1968

Chapter 20 Death from Above (Almost)

Chapter 21 Intelligence Missions for the Alphabet Agency

Chapter 22 A Week as a LURP/Standdown and Bellyman, February 10, 1968

Chapter 23 A Short Mission

February 11, 1968

Chapter 24 February 29, 1968, a Routine Lurp Mission

Plate

Chapter 25 Deadly Shit Happens in a War Zone

Chapter 26 Another Day in the Artillery War Zone

Chapter 27 Supervision 101 in the Combat Zone

Chapter 28 R&amp

R in Australia

Chapter 29 Murphy and the Grim Reaper Pay Team 1-5 a Visit

April 12, 1968

Chapter 30 Our New AO

Cu Chi

April 23, 1968

Chapter 31 Loches

Hunter Killer Teams

Chapter 32 24 Hours in the Life of a LURP at Basecamp

Chapter 33 24 Hours in the Life of a LURP on a Mission

Chapter 34 Patience is a Required Virtue for a Lurp Team/Team Members.

Chapter 35 Near Death First Mission after Returning from Leave in South Dakota

Chapter 36 An Ambush Initiated By Smell

Chapter 37 Selecting a Primary and Secondary LZ

Chapter 38 Top Secret Intelligence/Need to Know

Chapter 39 An Arc Light that Hit a Target

Chapter 40 Viva Los Cambodia

Chapter 41 The Boom Boom Girls of Bien Hoa

Chapter 42 Sometimes, you're the HUNTER and sometimes, you're the HUNTED

Chapter 43 Face to Face Combat

Chapter 44 Explosives 101

Chapter 45 C-4 and a Lurp's Cookout

Chapter 46 Search for a PoW Camp

Chapter 47 Last Chance for the Grim Reaper to Collect My Body and Soul

Chapter 48 The Grim Reaper Collects another Soul

Backcover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526789686

152678968X

9781526789662

1526789663