LBJ’s Hired Gun: A Marine Corps Helicopter Gunner and the War in Vietnam by John J. Gebhart
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Overview: 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’s riveting LBJ’s Hired Gun. As Gebhart tells it, he was a smart-mouthed college boy who joined the Marines to see the world and dust a few black pajamas for Uncle Sam. Two grueling tours of duty later (1965–1967), 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’s Hired Gun launches with Gebhart’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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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