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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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: A Few Short Notes from Yesterday
Prologue
1. First Breath
2. Bonding: Rite of Passage
3. Virginity Patrol: Move Out and Draw Fire
4. The Wide End of the Funnel
5. Kindergarten
6. He Was Just Like Me
7. Ghost Patrol
8. A New Normal
9. Learning to Be Violent
10. "We have to know we're right"
11. Just Cops on the Beat
12. All's Well If You Can See Past the Trees
13. Simple Little Spaces for Reflection
14. Things We Should Have Said
15. A Slightly Skewed Sort of Balance
16. An Everlasting Thanksgiving Memory
17. Tet: End of the Simple Push-Pull
18. Drums and Bugles
19. Post Tet: A New Ballgame
20. Anatomy of a Firefight
21. SEAL PBR Operations: Just Do It
22. Occasionally Out of the Bush
23. The Medicine Was Definitely Worse
24. A Most Well-known Monkey
25. The "Right" and the "Good"
26. A Strange Maturity
27. Clarity of Vision Reserved for One
28. Always Begin with "You Ain't Gonna Believe This Shit"
29. Counterinsurgency: Two Beaux Wooing the Same Girl
30. So, What Do We Do Now?
Index
