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Protected Will Never Know
STAYING ALIVE
Commander Leigh Wade outwitted death through five harrowing SF tours in Vietnam. n 1965, during his second assignment in Vietnam, Wade volunteered for duty with the newly arrived 173rd Airborne and participated in the first battalion-size helicopter assault in Vietnam. Later he helped set up a Special Forces A-camp and worked with the 1st Cav, eventually taking part in SOG operations, where he was a recon team leader. In early 1966, after joining the highly classified all-volunteer C-5 unit, he engaged in unconventional warfare and clandestine ops in Cambodia, roving deep into areas crawling with NVA.
Unlike many others, Wade lived to tell about what he saw. Captured in these pages is the horror, courage, and carnage of every moment spent trapped precariously between life and death.
Commander Leigh Wade outwitted death through five harrowing SF tours in Vietnam. n 1965, during his second assignment in Vietnam, Wade volunteered for duty with the newly arrived 173rd Airborne and participated in the first battalion-size helicopter assault in Vietnam. Later he helped set up a Special Forces A-camp and worked with the 1st Cav, eventually taking part in SOG operations, where he was a recon team leader. In early 1966, after joining the highly classified all-volunteer C-5 unit, he engaged in unconventional warfare and clandestine ops in Cambodia, roving deep into areas crawling with NVA.
Unlike many others, Wade lived to tell about what he saw. Captured in these pages is the horror, courage, and carnage of every moment spent trapped precariously between life and death.
- GenresMilitary Fiction
245 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 28, 1998
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February 3, 2019
I really didn't care for this book much. When I pick up a military book to read, especially one that is an autobiography of sorts, I expect there to be stories, whether first hand account or other, of the operations, tactics, battles, etc. that the person experienced. However this book related more stories of parties, prostitutes and getting wasted than the actual missions the author participated in. Several times he mentioned, and I paraphrase, "there were many harrowing experiences and missions..." That is great, however I wish he would have shared more of them in the book.
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