Kurzbeschreibung
"No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men." [pg. 13]
In 1965 nearly four hundred men were interviewed and only thirty-two selected for the infant LRRP Detachment of the lst Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Old-timers called it the suicide unit. Whether conducting prisoner snatches, search and destroy missions, or hunting for the enemy's secret base camps, LRRPs depended on one another 110 percent. One false step, one small mistake by one man could mean sudden death for all.
Author Reynel Martinez, himself a 101st LRRP Detachment veteran, takes us into the lives and battles of the extraordinary men for whom the brotherhood of war was and is an ever-present reality: the courage, the sacrifice, the sense of loss when one of your own dies. In the hills, valleys, and triple-canopy jungles, the ambushes, firefights, and copter crashes, LRRPs were among the best and bravest to fight in Vietnam.
From the Paperback edition.
In 1965 nearly four hundred men were interviewed and only thirty-two selected for the infant LRRP Detachment of the lst Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Old-timers called it the suicide unit. Whether conducting prisoner snatches, search and destroy missions, or hunting for the enemy's secret base camps, LRRPs depended on one another 110 percent. One false step, one small mistake by one man could mean sudden death for all.
Author Reynel Martinez, himself a 101st LRRP Detachment veteran, takes us into the lives and battles of the extraordinary men for whom the brotherhood of war was and is an ever-present reality: the courage, the sacrifice, the sense of loss when one of your own dies. In the hills, valleys, and triple-canopy jungles, the ambushes, firefights, and copter crashes, LRRPs were among the best and bravest to fight in Vietnam.
From the Paperback edition.
Der Autor über sein Buch
This book is not about one individual but all of us.
This book took six years to write. It was at times hard and a lot of soul searching went on during those years. I couldn't have done it without the help of my brother Lurps. With taped and written interviews and then follow up questions we got the histroy written as accurately as memory allowed. Eliminating embellishments, we told the stories as they happened. The Lurps to a man, were all proud of their service in Vietnam. They were tough and trying times, but we all feel that if we have ever been challenged and done our best, those were the times. The brotherhood that we shared in Vietnam is still alive today. I hope everyone that reads this book gets a little something out of it. It is a story from the heart. Thank you....Reynel Martinez
This book took six years to write. It was at times hard and a lot of soul searching went on during those years. I couldn't have done it without the help of my brother Lurps. With taped and written interviews and then follow up questions we got the histroy written as accurately as memory allowed. Eliminating embellishments, we told the stories as they happened. The Lurps to a man, were all proud of their service in Vietnam. They were tough and trying times, but we all feel that if we have ever been challenged and done our best, those were the times. The brotherhood that we shared in Vietnam is still alive today. I hope everyone that reads this book gets a little something out of it. It is a story from the heart. Thank you....Reynel Martinez
