Review: Interesting year in the life of an Army Officer
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
This is a very easy book to pick up and breeze through, but it is not light reading.  What I wish to point out is that the former Army Officer tells his story of his year in Vietnam with the needed prolog and epilog to tell a full story, but easy to follow.  There is military acronyms and jargon which are always explained for those who do not already know them and a very good glossary in the end.  Frank Evans takes us from OCS to a half of year in the bush through the final half a year at battalion HQ and shares factual, sometimes could be considered dry, but always honestly presented incidents of his service.  The author makes it easy to picture ourselves right with him and share some of the emotions and thoughts as best we can as secondhand observers. He starts off green and with the help of other professional soldiers/officers develops into a good platoon leader and later good staff officer.  I never felt he tried to focus on gory aspects that he witnessed, but always did report facts, his reactions and how he felt about the situations. I saw another reviewer talk of this being sort of a "documentary" presentation and I agree with that. Thank you Frank Evans for your service and thank you for sharing your story.