Description: I COMBINE SHIPPING $1.50 per book. FREE SHIPPING for orders over $60. Send books to your check-out cart. E-Bay will automatically adjust shipping costs. PACKAGING & SHIPPING RULES: 1. Individual books Under $18.00 are shipped in padded poly envelopes. 2. Individual books Over $18.00 are shipped in a poly envelope inside a box. 3. Buy Three or more books and the order is shipped in a box.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LISTING:This is about a GI who is sent to Vietnam in 1968 and assigned to the 173rd Airborne brigade 4th battalion, company D After four months he gets a minor wound from a booby trap. After a few weeks of recovery he decided to join the elite LRRPS of the 173rd. t' These were the Long Range Recon patrol mall team units that operated behind enemy lines. The rest of the book details his time with the 'LURPS . Bill Shanahan was troubled by his line company duty in Vietnam: whenever his unit went on patrol, the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong could hear them coming. His unit didn't have a chance against an enemy that quietly emerged from the jungle like ghosts-and just as quickly disappeared. Shanahan wanted a better way to fight...and to stay alive. And so, just four months after he arrived in Vietnam in 1968, he joined the LRPs (Long Range Patrol).The mission of the Lurps, as they were called, was dangerous: Five- or six-man teams were dropped into the dense forest behind enemy lines. They were to observe enemy troop movements and stage ambushes that sometimes ended in fierce firefights. When their mission was over, they called for quick helicopter rescue. Back on base, they debriefed and tried to sleep off the adrenaline. Two days later they were back in the brush. The missions changed, but one goal was always the same-stay alive.In hard-hitting prose, Bill Shanahan, with co-author John Brackin, tells his story of survival behind enemy lines.
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Location: Livonia, Michigan
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Book Title: Stealth Patrol : the Making of a Vietnam Ranger
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Hachette Books
Item Length: 1.1 in
Intended Audience: Adults
Modified Item: No
Subject: History
Vintage: No
Publication Year: 2003
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1960s
Illustrator: Yes
Author: John P. Brackin, Bill Shanahan
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, War & Combat
Topic: Army, Combat, Memoir, Military History, True Military Stories, Vietnam War, Military / Strategy, Military / Vietnam War, Military / General
Subjects: History & Military
Item Weight: 0.4 Oz
Item Width: 1.1 in
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
