Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne

by Larry Chambers

Book Overview

Author Larry Chambers vividly describes the guts and courage it took to pass the though volunteer-only training program in Nha Tarng to be part of the 5th Special Forces Recondo School, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804108439
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

one of America's finest tells how it was

This is an exelent book, it covers the author time while serving in F coy/ 58 LRP and L coy/ 75 Ranger One of the things I love is the way the author decribes the small details, the nitty gritty...attention to details are importend, but it is details in the field... This book also gives an avid account of the authors trip to the famed MACV recondo school and has plenty of goddy tips that can be used even today by modern patrol soldiers. The author is a modest man, but you cannot miss that fact that Larry Chambers was icecold in combat.....did things that many others would have freaked out on...... I could not put i down Go Buy it

Bold, daring

"I made this book mandatory reading for my Ranger team. I'd quiz my men about what they'd learned; to be bold, daring, tenacious, audacious, and don't be afraid to make a decision. We went from the worst platoon in the regiment to the best platoon in six months. In training we'd get to objective so fast they had to hold us back. US Army Master Sergeant H. "Max" Mullen Ret. 75th Ranger Regiment

amazing, interesting, captivating, and funny

Having been in the army, served in a war myself, and now turned helicopter pilot, I can truly recommend his book to everybody. Especially readers who are thinking of joining, people who have served and wifes who are trying to understand. Larry Chambers tells it how it is. It's the "real experience" without the politics and the [] Hollywood drama. I personally enjoyed most how the book showes that in the real world, all that was learned in basic and from the handbook, needs to be "slightly modified" to survive a real battle and keep working. You guys are true heroes to me and I thank you, Larry, for a wonderful book I couldn't put down until I was done at around 3am next morning.

Great book

I really dont like to read at all, but when I picked up this book i couldn't put it down. The excitement and the derad or the war was caught in this book. I love this book......

A SUPER READ ABOUT REAL PATRIOTS

Larry Chambers takes you into the jungles of Vietnam with a vengeance. He will have you laughing then cringing in the same sentence. He will have you ducking incoming. Once you pick up this book it will be impossible to put down. I have always known that Lurps were the heroes of Vietnam. This book just verifys it.