Sherman Lynch

Taking It In the Rear

The Vietnam War's Rear Echelon

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Produktbeschreibung

For each man fighting in the rice patties and jungles of Vietnam War, there were twelve in the rear echelon units providing ammo, food, medical, transport, communications, and air support to make their survival and success possible. This book is the personal account of a rear echelon Soldier who served with the 1st Signal Brigade from 1968 to 1969 in the Vietnam Theater of War, which included Thailand. As a member of SEATG, Thailand sent two Thai Army divisions to fight in Vietnam, allowed numerous U. S. Air Force bases in its country for bombers and fighter jets to support Allied ground forces in the Vietnam Theater of Combat. But, for National Security reasons, those of us serving in Thailand could not document or disclose any combat action we saw or heard of in Thailand, as the U. S. government did not want its people, many who violently opposed the Vietnam war, to know there was a second front being fought in Thailand.This book is not an account of tense combat action with bullets buzzing through the air and bombs blasting battlefields strewn with bodies, blood, guts, and gore. Though there were some firefights, this is an anecdotal account of the inane and insane situations endured in a support unit for frontline fighters. In previous wars, rear echelon troupes have been ironically portrayed in first-person accounts, like M.A.S.H and Good Morning, Vietnam. Such is this book, depicting a young soldier, raised on American values and ideals of virtuous womanhood, clashing with those of Asian cultures where women are second-class citizens, and a very young teenage girl was often sold into prostitution, if the marriage dowery from a groom, or the pay from a menial job, would not repay the cost to raise her.Though the names are modified to protect the identity of individuals, those who were there may identify themselves and our other brothers-in-arms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cadmus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1136g
• ISBN-13: 9781637510469
• ISBN-10: 1637510462
• Artikelnr.: 67321701

Autorenporträt

Sherman Lynch was born in 1948 at Millington Naval Air Station in Tennessee, where his father was a Navy Chief teaching Aviation Electronics. As a Navy brat, he lived in San Diego, California, from 1951 - 1953; on Ford Island, Hawaii, from 1953 - 1957; and in Fremont, California, from 1957 - 1961. His father then retired and moved the family to Oregon.In 1967, he graduated from high school and enlisted in the U.S. Army for three years, going to bootcamp at Fort Lewis, Washington and then to Signal Corps School at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, for nine months, before going to the 1st Signal Brigade in the Vietnam War in 1968 - 1969. Then he went to the 11th Signal Group at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and discharged in 1970 to go to college.Bored with college, he reenlisted in 1973 for the Air Defense Missile School at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, where he graduated from Fire Control Repair as a Spec-5, became an instructor and promoted to Staff Sergeant before his discharge in 1976 to attend the University of Alabama School of Nursing. After being forced out of Nursing School in 1977 by faculty that believed men should not be nurses, he enlisted as a Navy Hospitalman, rose to Hospitalman First Class, and served his three-year sea duty tour with the 1st Marines at Camp Pendleton, California, before his discharge in 1988 to attend college. In 1991, he received a BS in Computer Science, with a Minor in Writing. After the dot-com bust in 1999, he returned to medicine, and retired from the VA Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a twenty-five-year pension in 2007. He is now living in Utah.