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Many Vietnam memoirs have appeared in recent years, but not a single one has the humor, pathos, poignancy, and often sheer hilarity of John J. Gebhart & rsquo;s riveting LBJ & rsquo;s Hired Gun. As Gebhart tells it, he was a & ldquo;smart-mouthed college boy & rdquo; who joined the Marines to see the world and & ldquo;dust a few black pajamas for Uncle Sam. & rdquo; Two grueling tours of duty later (1965 & ndash;1967), he returned home as a sergeant after surviving 240 combat missions (12 air medals) and being shot down twice. On his chest was the Navy Commendation Award (with the combat V). LBJ & rsquo;s Hired Gun launches with Gebhart & rsquo;s grim recollection of the intense, old-school brutality that was Marine Corps training on Parris Island before transitioning to his difficult journey for Southeast Asia aboard a troop transport with two thousand other nameless grunts. These hardships offered but a glimpse of the suffering he and his comrades were about to endure. His candid account of life and death in Vietnam is written with a lively, infectious flair. But be forewarned: No attempt has been made to sanitize this memoir with politically correct language. Gebhart tells his s

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Author

Gebhart, John J.

Publisher

Casemate Publishers : Made available through hoopla

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781480411203

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir