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	• Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Larry Chambers Presidio Press, 2003 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

one of America's finest tells how it was

This is an exelent book, it covers the author time while serving in F coy/ 58 LRP and L coy/ 75 Ranger

One of the things I love is the way the author decribes the small details, the nitty gritty...attention to details are importend, but it is details in the field...

This book also gives an avid account of the authors trip to the famed MACV recondo school and has plenty of goddy tips that can be used even today by modern patrol soldiers.

The author is a modest man, but you cannot miss that fact that Larry Chambers was icecold in combat.....did things that many others would have freaked out on......
I could not put i down

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Recondo !!!

Very good account of life in Recondo. The walk through the Vietnam service portrayed in this book, will keep you in the moment.

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LRRP

This book gave a good accounting of the training to become a Long Range Reconaisance Patrol leader, and what it was really like to be almost alone, behind the enemy lines.

A Great Read

One of the best reads I've had in a while. Excitement and drama in every chapter. Unexpected chills and thrills also. I did not want to put the book down. Most of the training that was covered had to do with on the job training, which was the most dangerous. From ambushes to booby traps to the unexpected, this book had it all. It makes you appreciate the job previous and current armed forces personnel have done for this country.

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As relevant today as ever

I have worked as a speech-language pathologist for the Department of Veterans Affairs for about 35 years, and my earliest patients included young veterans of the Vietnam War. Now, towards the end of my career, I have the privilege of working with veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I read Recondo and Mr. Chamber's other book on his war experiences, Death in the A Shau Valley (Death In the A Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-70.), years ago, and was profoundly affected by the people and actions described. He writes with an authentic voice and we are fortunate to have his experiences preserved. I recently re-read both books after reading Jonathan Shay's two recent books on Vietnam War combat veterans (Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character) (Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming). I bought additional copies of all four books for my staff to read to better understand -- as much as it is possible for those of us who haven't experienced combat - what our brothers and sisters have gone through and what they are going through as they reenter civilian life. Perhaps every war is unique. I believe every veteran is. But Recondo give the rest of us a piece of the picture that helps us welcome the men and women of war home, no matter how long it has been since the battle ended.

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Author Larry Chambers vividly describes the guts and courage it took to pass the though volunteer-only training program in Nha Tarng to be part of the 5th Special Forces Recondo School, the hair-raising graduation mission to scout out, locate, and out-guerilla the NVA. Here is an unforgettable account that follows Chambers and the Rangers every step of the way--from joining, going through Recondo, and finally leading his own team on white-knuckle missions through the jungle hell of Vietnam.

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