A marine's promise to God
Subtitle: a memoir of Vietnam
By: David L. Ray
Publisher: CrossBooks Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781615076208; 9781615076215
Subjects: United States; United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 7th. Battalion, 3rd. Company M; American Personal narratives; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Marines; Regimental histories; Biography; Religious life
Table of contents: title: You know you're a Marine Grunt (infantry) when; title: The summer of 69; title: The promise; title: Things usually happened really fast; title: Fast rewind about two months; title: Welcome to Mike Company; title: My squad; title: We had a worthwhile mission; title: How I got the Point Man job; title: My first look at enemy dead before the story at the beginning of this book; title: Rick Watts and me; title: Our first KIA's (Killed in Action) after I got with Mike Company; title: The story at the beginning of this book; title: When I started smoking; title: Firebase Bushwack; title: Time to do some laundry; title: Battalion operation; title: A letter to home; title: The rope bridge; title: Picnic anyone?; title: Fourth of July celebrating; title: The guys in our squad and platoon; title: Moving our base camp to LZ Ross; title: The creek bed shootout; title: The grenade duel; title: Trying to determine which civilians were VC sympathizers; title: The NVA Tea Party; title: The death of Sergeant Eiland; title: Antennae Valley; title: Firefight cheerleading; title: Firebase Ryder; title: Itching for a fight; title: Humping down from Firebase Ryder; title: Mike Company's worst day of 1970; title: Sniper valley; title: A bad day for Alpha Squad; title: Bad news for Bravo Squad; title: A new platoon commander; title: Malaria or not; title: I'm ready for R and R; title: I'm medivaced and the Seventh Marines get pulled out; title: Bad news in the mail; title: I'm heading home; title: Now 40 Memorial Days have gone by; title: Mike Company gets Congressional recognition; title: Mike Company's Killed in Action in Vietnam; title: You know you were a grunt in the Marines or Army when; title: Glossary of words.