Lieutenant Colonel A. Tack Always attends sessions at the Army's National Training Center, where he learns how to lead a mechanized infantry batalion[...]
The story of a young man's indoctrination into combat as an infantry platoon leader in the famed 173d Airborne Brigade, is told with pace and style in what has become a classic in the literature of America's war in Vietnam. - Account of the U.S platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program -[...]