Combat Bandsman: Memoir Of A Tour In Vietnam With The 9Th Infantry Division, 1969

Playing trumpet in the 9th Infantry Division Band should have been a safe assignment but the Viet Cong swarmed throughout the Mekong Delta, and safety was nonexistent. The band's twofold mission--boosting morale and helping win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese--required them to leave their Ð?ng Tam (a.k.a. Mortar City) base camp and travel through a vast area of rice paddies, dense jungle and numerous villages. By 1969, home-front support for the war had dwindled and the U.S. Army in Vietnam was on the brink of mutiny. No one wanted to die under the command of career-minded officers in a war lost to misguided politics. This memoir of a conscripted musician in Vietnam provides a personal account of the lunacy surrounding combat support service in the 9th Infantry Division during the months prior to its withdrawal.

• | Author: Robert F. Fischer
• | Publisher: McFarland & Company
• | Publication Date: Sep 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1476664811
• | ISBN-13: 9781476664811