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Category: Advisor Book I

  • Vietnamese/US Military Ranks

    Throughout my books I have always tried to use the Vietnamese rank when I was writing about dealing with my counterparts. In all of the books when I have used the rank for the first time I have added a footnote to the page because the Vietnamese language is so much different than is the… →

  • The Starlight Scope

    Recently I was watching a movie about some soldiers in Afghanistan and I noticed that they were wearing this device on their helmet. It was night time and occasionally they would lower it and look out across the horizon and detect movement. It was a modern night vision device. I had to laugh because when… →

  • “If I’ve Told You Once I’ve Told You a Thousand Times….”

    The Plain of Reeds is a vast inland wetland. Most of the area we are discussing is now a part of Long An Province and Đồng Tháp Province in the country of Vietnam. When I was stationed there our province was called Kien Tuong with the Provincial Capital at the town of Moc Hoa (Moc Loi in… →

  • Love and War

    It was a sad moving day for Colonel Paul Tyler, US Army retired. After the loss of his beloved wife, Katherine, to breast cancer, he had decided to sell their large five-bedroom house in Tilden, Indiana and move to a two-bedroom condo in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. As they were clearing out the house… →

  • The Ambush at Nhon-Nhin-Three

    Good morning and Happy 4th of July! Note to my readers. Sometimes a good story just doesn’t seem to fit in a novel. It either adds to many pages to a chapter or requires the reader to shift gears to understand the placement of the story. This happened to be one of those forgotten stories.… →

  • The Ambush at Nhon-Nhin-Three; Command Decision (Part Two)

    Previously, we found Second Lieutenant, Sergeant First Class Bennett and a platoon of South Vietnamese soldiers outside the small village of Nhon-Nhin-Three preparing to ambush a group of high-ranking Việt Cộng political cadre and their guards. Due to an unforeseen delay, they had gotten into position after the VC had entered the village. They now… →

  • The Plain of Reeds; life in the Mekong Delta

    A number of times I’ve talked about operating in the Plain of Reeds (Đồng Tháp Mười in Vietnamese). Our entire provincial area bordered with Cambodia on the north and the Vam Cô Tây River on the east. The entirety of Kien Binh district was considered to be a part of the Plain of Reeds. The… →