Vietnam War Bibliography: From Classrooms To Claymores - A Teacher At War in Vietnam - Chas Schneider - Memoir Army Infantry Soldier 1969-70
Ivy Book 1999, 276 pages, glossary, photographs, ISBN 0-8041-1871-X, digest paperback.
Author Ches Schneider has been teaching English and history since 1966. During 1969 and 1970, he served in two combat units, the First Infantry Division and the First Air Cavalry, in the Republic of Vietnam.
FROM THE AUTHOR:
I was much older than most of the other men in my unit. (I was drafted 30 days before my 26th birthday, had I made the age of 26, I would have been draft exempt, and this book would not have been written.) Also I served in the 1st Air Cavalry Division, not the 1st Air Vietnam. While I did behave myself most of the time and did get a Good Conduct Medal, it was for the 25 plus air assaults into enemy territory that I received the Air Medal. Readers will find my book different from the typical Vietnam book. While I do tell my share of shoot-em up stories (What war vet wouldn't?), about 50% of the book relates the humorous tales of survival in the jungle and on forward fire support bases. I believe that you will enjoy reading about my year in Vietnam.
Vietnam War Bibliography: From Classrooms To Claymores - A Teacher At War in Vietnam - Chas Schneider - Memoir Army Infantry Soldier 1969-70
Ivy Book 1999, 276 pages, glossary, photographs, ISBN 0-8041-1871-X, digest paperback.
Author Ches Schneider has been teaching English and history since 1966. During 1969 and 1970, he served in two combat units, the First Infantry Division and the First Air Cavalry, in the Republic of Vietnam.
FROM THE AUTHOR:
I was much older than most of the other men in my unit. (I was drafted 30 days before my 26th birthday, had I made the age of 26, I would have been draft exempt, and this book would not have been written.) Also I served in the 1st Air Cavalry Division, not the 1st Air Vietnam. While I did behave myself most of the time and did get a Good Conduct Medal, it was for the 25 plus air assaults into enemy territory that I received the Air Medal. Readers will find my book different from the typical Vietnam book. While I do tell my share of shoot-em up stories (What war vet wouldn't?), about 50% of the book relates the humorous tales of survival in the jungle and on forward fire support bases. I believe that you will enjoy reading about my year in Vietnam.