Living and Breathing: Just Another Day in Vietnam, by Col Keith M. Nightingale (Ret)
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The basis of this book is my initial introduction into combat in Vietnam as a 1st Lieutenant with the Vietnamese Ranger infantry. I was the Deputy Senior Advisor to the Vietnamese 52d Ranger Battalion located at Xuan Loc, Long Kanh Province, III Corps, South Vietnam. The book is 95 percent fact and 5 percent speculation regarding a major action the battalion fought in June of 1967 near the Dong Ngai River, War Zone D. The action begins with a Viet Cong (VC) soldier surrendering to U.S. elements in Long Kanh. He related that a VC company was building a base camp near the Dong Ngai along a stream named Suoi Long. The intelligence led the commanding general of the 18th ARVN Division to assign the task of finding and destroying the camp to the 52d Rangers. The Rangers deployed in less than 24 hours from initial notification to a Landing Zone approximately 2½ kilometers from the reported base camp. The Rangers were immediately engaged and ambushed by a full strength Main Force VC battalion backed by an entire VC regiment, which quickly engaged the trapped Rangers that night and early morning. No U.S. support was available other than long range artillery. In desperation, the Ranger battalion commander, the following morning at dawn, ordered a covering assault into the attacking VC by one company to be followed by a withdrawal under pressure of the remainder of the battalion aided by more than 72 tactical airstrikes within a 45 minute period. As I regrouped into our new perimeter at around 10 a.m., I counted a total of 32 Rangers left from an original assault force of 450. During the Christmas period in December 1967, a number of Ranger prisoners held by the VC during this action were released back to our control as a good will gesture. During the debrief of the ex-POWs, they independently related that they were told by their captors that the entire action was planned at the highest level in order to trap and destroy a major South Vietnamese unit. We had no reason to doubt the authenticity of the report and this book is based on the supposition that it is true. The character of Hu, the informant, and his actions are real. The death of Gen Do, COSVN commander, and the effect of the B-52 Arc Light strike with subsequent movement into Laos, is as the former POWs related to us. The portrayal of Do and his planning briefings are conjecture. The remainder of the description is as I saw the action, the players, and the effects. For this action, the 52d Ranger Battalion was awarded a second U.S. Presidential Unit Citation, one of the very few Vietnamese units to garner two of the highest awards the U.S. can proffer upon a military unit, U.S. or foreign.
Living and Breathing: Just Another Day in Vietnam, by Col Keith M. Nightingale (Ret)- Amazon Sales Rank: #500081 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .67" w x 6.00" l, .87 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 266 pages
About the Author Keith Nightingale was commissioned a 2d Lieutenant in 1965 from Claremont McKenna College. He graduated from Airborne, Jumpmaster, and Ranger Schools and retired as a Colonel in 1993. During that time he commanded four rifle companies, three battalions, and two brigades - all Airborne or Ranger units and some in combat. He served two tours in Vietnam, was part of the Iran Rescue Attempt, an assault force commander in Grenada, and managed the Department of Defense Interagency Counterdrug Task Force for Latin America from Panama - a portion of which was devoted to the capture of Pablo Escobar. He was an original member of Joint Special Operations Command as well as a founding Plankholder for the 1st Ranger Battalion in 1974. After retiring from the military, he joined Science Applications International Corporation and as Senior Corporate Vice President, managed over a thousand international contracts and security programs in the Middle East conflict zone, and was responsible for the safety and security of all employees around the world. He presently serves as a consultant and advisor to several government personalities and organizations and conducts leadership seminars for several Fortune 500 companies. Keith annually conducts staff rides for the US and Allied soldiers who attend the Normandy Liberation anniversary ceremonies. He resides in Ojai, California where he grows limes and kills gophers. Col (Ret) Nightingale is a member of the Ranger Hall of Fame and a member of the French Legion of Honor, Officer Class. He has been married for 50-plus years to the same lady and has four great kids and six grandchildren–so far.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Extremely well written, factual, vivid descriptions, riveting, very good.... By Stephen L. Richey The words Keith puts together in describing events in Viet Nam paints a mental picture that is vividly accurate. His experience from being in the field gives him the facts and the intelligent way he writes, I've never found in other books about the War in Viet Nam. For those who have been in Viet Nam, to read Keith's writing, is like being there without having to go back. For those who have never been in war, you'll have a better understanding of what war is.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A great read that portrays the roles of leader and led ... By General Volney Warner US Army Retired A great read that portrays the roles of leader and led in Vietnam as no other has before..Were it not for the sweaty palms and flashbacks I would read it again. May those who sent us Soldiers to Vietnam read this book for a boots on the ground education beyond compare. Full disclosure, Keith has been a friend for many years. Volney Warner, General US Army Retired
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Never a better account written, bar none. By Robert S. Rush An truly exceptional piece of narrative history based on personal experience and hypothesis, with every word written ringing true to this old infantryman; from an acute sense of the macro relationship between terrain, weather and the forces fighting to the micro of ten feet to the right and left of those fighting, the dead, dying and wounded and the tie in of those pieces that define close combat. Beautifully written, with an eye for detail seldom seen in this type of work, Colonel Nightingale’s prose puts the reader side by side with the participants. As a military historian, I’ve never read a better account of a small unit action by a participant.Robert Sterling Rush, PhDCommand Sergeant Major, USA (ret)Author of Hell in Hürtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment.
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