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Brothers in the Mekong Delta : a memoir of PBR Section 513 in the Vietnam War / Godfrey Garner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garner, Godfrey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Navy. River Patrol Force. River Section 513.
- United States.
- Garner, Godfrey.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Riverine operations, American.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Sailors--United States--Biography.
- Sailors.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns--Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.S. naval strategy in 1967-1968 saw young men fresh out of high school policing the canals and tributaries of South Vietnam aboard PBRs (patrol boat, riverine)-unarmored yet heavily armed and highly maneuverable vessels designed to operate in shallow, weedy waterways. This memoir recounts the experiences of the author and his shipmates as they cruised the Viet Cong-occupied backwaters of the Mekong Delta, and their emotional metamorphosis as wartime events shaped the men they would be for the remainder of their lives."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- First Breath
- Bonding: Rite of Passage
- Virginity Patrol: Move Out and Draw Fire
- The Wide End of the Funnel
- Kindergarten
- He Was Just Like Me
- Ghost Patrol
- A New Normal
- Learning to Be Violent
- "We Have to Know We're Right"
- Just Cops on the Beat
- All's Well If You Can See Past the Trees
- Simple Little Spaces for Reflection
- Things We Should Have Said
- A Slightly Skewed Sort of Balance
- An Everlasting Thanksgiving Memory
- Tet: End of the Simple Push-Pull
- Drums and Bugles
- Post Tet: A New Ballgame
- Anatomy of a Firefight
- SEAL PBR Operations: Just Do It
- Occasionally Out of the Bush
- The Medicine Was Definitely Worse
- A Most Well-known Monkey
- The "Right" and the "Good"
- A Strange Maturity
- Clarity of Vision Reserved for One
- Always Begin With "You Ain't Gonna Believe This Shit"
- Counterinsurgency: Two Beaux Wooing the Same Girl
- So, What Do We Do Now?
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-3944-2
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