Acceptable Loss
An Infantry Soldier's Perspective
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4.6 • 147 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In just ten months in Vietnam, he was overrun, shot up, but not underworked—he survived fifty-four missions as point man. He has one hell of a story to tell.
You didn't get into the Rangers without volunteering, and you didn't stay on point unless you liked it. But after watching most of his buddies die in a firefight when his LRRP team was overrun by the NVA, Kregg Jorgenson volunteered to serve on a Blue Team in the Air Cavalry, racing to the aid of soldiers who faced the same dangers he had barely survived.
Whether enduring NVA sapper attacks, surviving “friendly” fire, or landing in hot LZs, Jorgenson discovered that in Vietnam you never knew whether you were paranoid or just painfully aware of the possibilities.
Customer Reviews
Excellent book. I highly recommend it
Very well-told story about an American teen who ends up at the pointy end of the spear in the Vietnam war. The author very vividly describes real combat, real human events, and more mportantly, the real emotions, of a young American whose life is changed forever by his combat experiences.
If you didn’t live in those times, you likely don’t understand what that war did to so many Americans,and to an entire generation of Americans. This book can help bridge that gap and add to your understanding of that war and what it did to so many Americans.
Bravo Zulu
I’ve read many books about the wars in Southeast Asia. This ranks among the best.
Unfortunately, I’ve already forgotten how to spell the author’s name. But I know it. And it’s not really about him anyway. It’s about his brothers in arms, an unappreciated lot, whose valor, whose courage in those jungles, was magnificent.
Five stars.
Acceptable Loss
Real story about a difficult time!