A Sniper in the Arizona: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in the Arizona Territory, 1967 Mass market paperbound - 1999
by John Culbertson
A sequel to the author's "Operation Tuscaloosa", which was a Main Selection of the Military Book Club, this is a rare first-person look at the training and use of a sniper in Vietnam.
From the jacket flap
"Morning was always a welcome sight to us. It meant two things. The first was that we were still alive. . . ."
In 1967, death was the constant companion of the Marines of Hotel Company, 2/5, as they patrolled the paddy dikes, mud, and mountains of the Arizona Territory southwest of Da Nang. But John Culbertson and most of the rest of Hotel Company were the same lean, fighting Marines who had survived the carnage of Operation Tuscaloosa. Hotel's grunts walked over the enemy, not around him.
In graphic terms, John Culbertson describes the daily, dangerous life of a soldier fighting in a country where the enemy was frequently indistinguishable from the allies, fought tenaciously, and thought nothing of using civilians as a shield. Though he was one of the top marksmen in 1st Marine Division Sniper School in Da Nang in March 1967--a class of just eighteen, chosen from the division's twenty thousand Marines--Culbertson knew that against the VC and the NVA, good training and experience could carry you just so far. But his company's mission was to find and engage the enemy, whatever the price. This riveting, bloody first-person account offers a stark testimony to the stuff U.S. Marines are made of.
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- Title A Sniper in the Arizona: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in the Arizona Territory, 1967
- Author John Culbertson
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition 1st
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Presidio Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-03-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780804118705 / 0804118701
- Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 6.85 x 4.23 x 0.84 in (17.40 x 10.74 x 2.13 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Arizona
- Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975, United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98093522
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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