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DavidS
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Re: Military Training
Posted: 24 Oct 09 3:55 PM Modified By DavidS on 10/24/2009 3:57:29 PM)
 Admiral Link wrote
I remember the term used in Medal of Honor video game.

That's a game, it doesn't necessarily have any connection whatsoever with reality. I don't know, maybe the army uses greenhorn.

And, Skink, I was mostly in rice paddy land, not swamps.
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Re: Military Training
Posted: 24 Oct 09 4:33 PM Modified By Skink on 10/24/2009 4:33:22 PM)
 DavidS wrote
 Admiral Link wrote
I remember the term used in Medal of Honor video game.

That's a game, it doesn't necessarily have any connection whatsoever with reality. I don't know, maybe the army uses greenhorn.

And, Skink, I was mostly in rice paddy land, not swamps.


Rice Paddies huh? Wow. Was it beautiful aside from getting shot at?
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Re: Military Training
Posted: 25 Oct 09 7:42 PM Modified By DavidS on 10/25/2009 7:45:06 PM)
The rice paddies sparkled in the sunlight like an endless bed of emeralds. There were more greens than I've seen anywhere other than Hawaii. Yeah, there was a tremendous amount of visual beauty in South Vietnam.

But there are caviats. For example, the most beautiful beaches I've seen anywhere in the world were in South Vietnam. But we had to make sure we went into the water while the tide was coming in, not when it was going out. (This counts for near the mouth of a river.) You see, everybody in the countryside used the river as their toilets. When the tide was going out, you shared the water with turds floating out from upstream.

I went to Vietnam, like most Marines, by ship. In my novel The Squad, I described my first impression of the country--as perceived by my main character, George Bingham; "They smelled the country before they saw it." And then; "It smelled like something had taken a dump on a pile of rotten fruit, and then something else crawled on top of it and died."

Visually beautiful, but it stank. We got used to the smell quickly enough.

The Squad is long out of print, but if you can find a copy, it's a worthwhile read. Long before Dan and I started writing together, he reviewed military books for the Washington Times. He said of The Squad, "If this book had been published twenty years ago, it would be considered a classic in the field."
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Re: Military Training
Posted: 26 Oct 09 1:40 AM Modified By Alisium on 10/26/2009 1:42:23 AM)
Did a quick search and found this:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/david-sherman/squad.htm

Slow down man. My "books to buy" queue keeps growing and growing. Fortunately December is both my birth month and Christmas.

For some reason I just cannot get the link button to work.
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