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Book 12 of 2023

Title: Redcatcher MP: 199th Light Infantry Brigade Authors: Mickey M. Bright & S. Fay Risner ISBN: 9781490457482 Tags: FSB Alice (Vietnam War), Interrogator, KOR ROK Republic of Korea Army, Military Intelligence, Military Police, US Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, US USA 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment, US USA United States Army, USA 199th Light Infantry Brigade, USA 199th Light Infantry Brigade - 152nd MP Platoon, USA 552nd MP Co., USA 90th Replacement Bn, VNM 1968 Tet Offensive (1968) (Vietnam War), VNM Bien Hoa, VNM Bien Hoa Airbase (Vietnam War), VNM Highway 1, VNM Long Binh, VNM RVN ARVN Army of the Republic of Vietnam, VNM RVN ARVN General Tran Van Minh, VNM RVN ARVN MP Quan Canh Military Police, VNM RVN Chieu Hoi Program/Force 66 - Luc Luong 66 (Vietnam War), VNM RVN Kit Carson Scouts (Vietnam War), VNM Saigon, VNM Tan Hemp, VNM Tu Do Street, VNM US USA 24th Evacuation Hospital - Long Binh (Vietnam War), VNM US USA II Field Force (1966-1971) (Vietnam War), VNM Vietnam War (1955-1975), VNM Xuan Loc Rating: 4 stars Subject: Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.US Army.Military Police

Description: Mickey put his heart and soul into his book about his three tours in the Vietnam War. He brings to life the men he served with and treasured as friends as well as the Vietnamese people he grew to know and respect. He describes everything he saw and felt about the country in vivid detail. That includes the horrors of war as well as the men's feverish efforts to block their worries and fears in their off duty hours. Mickey's humor comes through when he writes about being invited to supper at a Vietnamese Police Officer's house and finds he's eating dog meat. Or when he becomes really nervous on patrol alone and thinks he's going to confront VC in a village cemetery only to find he's face to face with the harmless village bum.

Men felt pressure and stress all the time. They didn't know where the enemy was. There wasn't a front lines or a safe area even on base. They could never fully relax. The horrors of this war led many soldiers into a fog of drugs just to cope. Smoking marijuana was as popular as smoking a cigarette. The young men were drafted during the hippy drug era. Many of them had tried drugs, marijuana and drinking alcoholic beverages in the states. In Vietnam, drugs were cheap and very accessible. Beer was cheap at the PX and kept under the bunks by the case. Most times, it was consumed warm. The camaraderie between the men in their off time led to addictions that had to be faced when they went home. For many, drugs became a way to sleep in a stupor without fear and nightmarish images of death haunting them. The years that Mickey Bright was in Vietnam, statics show that more men went to the hospital because of their addictions than those with wounds. At the time, his war stories wouldn't have been wise to write about in letters to his worried family. We see the standoffs as Mickey describes them and get a feel for what his duties were like as a military policeman. Often something about Vietnam reminded him of his family and home in Nevada, Missouri. It's only when he was midway through his third tour of duty that he felt he'd had enough of this strange land and war. With new men coming in all the time, he dwelt more on the friends he lost, and the ones that went back to the world that he missed. Then there were his memories of Lei, the pretty Vietnamese girl he loved. When she was killed during a fire fight in Saigon, Mickey didn't have a reason to stay. He was ready to come home.

Review: Let me first start out by saying the book has a good flow to it. It's engaging, it's an interesting subject, and it's not just a collection of short stories thrown together like many of these books are.

In fact, it reads more like a novel than a memoir, and the book is better for it.

The primary negative is that, like many other independently published books, it screams for an editor. There are constant errors in spelling, errors in formatting, repeated paragraphs, and the like that a good proofreader and copyeditor would fix - and it does effect the readability at times.

Having said that, Mickey was an MP REMF, and while most books about MP's involve a lot of fighting, a lot of throwing around authority, Mickey took a different tact. Serving 3 tours with the 199th and temporarily with the 11th ACR, you get a little action here and there, an occasional rocket, an occasional law enforcement issue, but mostly it details a lot of drug use, a lot of drinking, and a lot of boredom and trying to fill hours in between shifts. Normally that would make for a boring, tedious, and uninteresting book, but because of the cast of characters, and the prose, it's actually still worth a read.

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RARE Vietnam War US Army Shirt & Pants Uniform Officer Ranger 199th Brigade LIB Check it out $29.97 https://ebay.to/2IA2bZh

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Books of 2023

Book 2 of 2023:

Title: Days of Valor Authors: Robert Tonsetic ISBN: 9781935149385 Tags: AUS ADF AA Australian Army, AUS ADF Australian Defence Force, AUS ADF RAN FAA 723 Sqd, AUS ADF RAN FAA Fleet Air Arm, AUS ADF RAN Royal Australian Navy, AUS Australia, US USA 118th Assault Helicopter Company - Thunderbirds, US USA 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, US USA 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment - 2/11, US USA 128th Assault Helicopter Company - Tomahawks, US USA 12th Aviation Group, US USA 12th Infantry Regiment, US USA 12th Infantry Regiment - 4/12 - Warriors, US USA 12th Infantry Regiment - 5/12, US USA 12th Infantry Regiment - 5/12 - A Co, US USA 135th Assault Helicopter Company, US USA 179th Military Intelligence Det, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment - 3/17, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment - 3/17 - A Troop, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment - 3/17 - A Troop - Silver Spurs, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment - 3/17 - Aero-Rifle, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment - 3/17 - Aero-Scouts, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment - Delta Troop, US USA 187th Assault Helicopter Company, US USA 199th Light Infantry Brigade (Redcatchers), US USA 1st ID, US USA 25th ID, US USA 27th Infantry Regiment - 2/27, US USA 27th Infantry Regiment - Wolfhound Raiders, US USA 28th Infantry Regiment, US USA 28th Infantry Regiment - 2/28 - Black Lions, US USA 35th Artillery Regiment, US USA 35th Artillery Regiment - 2/35, US USA 35th Artillery Regiment - 2/35 - C Batt, US USA 39th Infantry Regiment, US USA 39th Infantry Regiment - 4/39, US USA 39th Infantry Regiment - 4/39 - B Co, US USA 3rd Infantry Regiment - 2/3, US USA 3rd Infantry Regiment - The Old Guard, US USA 3rd Ordnance Bn, US USA 40th Artillery Regiment, US USA 40th Artillery Regiment - 2/40, US USA 40th Artillery Regiment - 2/40 - C Batt, US USA 478th Aviation Co, US USA 47th Mechanized Infantry Regiment, US USA 47th Mechanized Infantry Regiment - 2/47, US USA 47th Mechanized Infantry Regiment - 2/47 - A Co, US USA 47th Mechanized Infantry Regiment - 2/47 - B Co, US USA 47th Mechanized Infantry Regiment - 2/47 - C Co, US USA 49th Scout Dog Platoon, US USA 4th Cavalry Regiment, US USA 4th Cavalry Regiment - 3/4, US USA 503rd Chemical Det, US USA 51st Infantry Regiment, US USA 51st Infantry Regiment - F Co (LRP), US USA 52nd Infantry Regiment, US USA 52nd Infantry Regiment - C Co, US USA 60th Infantry Regiment, US USA 60th Infantry Regiment - 5/60 - B Co, US USA 60th Infantry Regiment - 5/60 - Banditos, US USA 60th Infantry Regiment - 5/60 - C Co, US USA 716th Military Police Bn., US USA 71st Infantry Det (LRRP), US USA 7th Infantry Regiment, US USA 7th Infantry Regiment - 3/7 - A Co, US USA 7th Infantry Regiment - 3/7 - Cottonbalers, US USA 87th Engineer Co, US USA 9th ID, US USA ASA 856th Radio Research Det, US USA ASA Army Security Agency, US USA Combat Trackers - K9, US USA General Frederick Weyand, US USA General John Hay, US USA General Robert C. 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1st Marine Bn - Wild Birds, VNM RVN VNN RVNMD 147th Marine Brigade, VNM RVN VNN RVNMD Republic of Vietnam Marine Division - Su Doan Thuy Quan Luc Chien, VNM Saigon, VNM Saigon - CMD Capital Military District (Vietnam War), VNM Saigon - Phu Tho Racetrack, VNM Song Be, VNM Suoi Dia, VNM Suoy Tay Loi, VNM Tan My Tay, VNM Tan Son Nhut Air Base, VNM Tan Uyen, VNM Thu Duc, VNM Trang Bom, VNM US MACV Military Assistance Command Vietnam (Vietnam War), VNM US USA 24th Evacuation Hospital - Long Binh (Vietnam War), VNM US USA 3rd Field Hospital - Saigon (Vietnam War), VNM US USA 93rd Evacuation Hospital - Long Binh (Vietnam War), VNM US USA II Field Force (1966-1971) (Vietnam War), VNM USA TF Hay (Vietnam War), VNM USA TF Panther (Vietnam War), VNM USA TF Ware (Vietnam War), VNM USA USARV United States Army Vietnam (Vietnam War), VNM Vietnam, VNM Vietnam War (1955-1975), VNM Vung Tao, VNM War Zone D (Vietnam War), VNM Xam Suoi Dia, VNM Xuan Loc Rating: ★★★★ Subject: Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.US Army.Infantry

Description: On January 30, 1968, the storm broke loose, as Saigon and nearly every provincial capital was overrun by VC and NVA bursting in unexpected strength from their base camps. In this book we learn the most intimate details of combat, as the Communists fight with rockets, mortars, Chinese claymores, mines, machine guns and AK-47s. The battles evolve into an enemy favoring the cloak of night, the jungle—both urban and natural—and subterranean fortifications, against U.S. forces favoring direct confrontational battle supported by air and artillery. When the lines are only 25 yards apart, however, there is little way to distinguish between the firepower or courage of the assailants and the defenders, or even who is who at any given moment, as both sides have the other in direct sight. Days of Valor covers the height of the Vietnam War, from the nervous period just before Tet, through the defeat of that offensive, to the highly underwritten yet equally bloody NVA counteroffensive launched in May 1968. It ends with a brief note about the 199th LIB being deactivated in spring 1970, furling its colors after suffering 753 dead and some 5,000 wounded. The brigade had only been a temporary creation, intended for one purpose, and though its heroism is now a matter of history, it should remain a source of pride for all Americans. SUMMARY: The 199th Light Infantry Brigade was created from three U.S. infantry battalions of long lineage as a fast reaction force to place in Vietnam. As the book begins, in December 1967, the brigade has been at war for a year, and many of its battered 12-month men are returning home. The Communists seem to be in a lull, and the brigade commander requests a transfer to a more active sector, just above Saigon. Through January the battalions sense increasing enemy strength, NVA personnel now mixed with Viet Cong units. But the enemy is lying low, and a truce has even been declared for the Vietnamese New Year, the holiday called Tet. On January 30, 1968, the storm broke loose, as Saigon and nearly every provincial capital was overrun by VC and NVA bursting in unexpected strength from their base camps. In this book we learn the most intimate details of combat, as the Communists fight with rockets, mortars, Chinese claymores, mines, machine guns and AK-47s. The battles evolve into an enemy favoring the cloak of night, the jungle-both urban and natural-and subterranean fortifications, against U.S. forces favoring direct confrontational battle supported by air and artillery. When the lines are only 25 yards apart, however, there is little way to distinguish between the firepower or courage of the assailants and the defenders, or even who is who at any given moment, as both sides have the other in direct sight. Days of Valor covers the height of the Vietnam War, from the nervous period just before Tet, through the defeat of that offensive, to the highly underwritten yet equally bloody NVA counteroffensive launched in May 1968. It ends with a brief note about the 199th LIB being deactivated in spring 1970, furling its colors after suffering 753 dead and some 5,000 wounded. The brigade had only been a temporary creation, intended for one purpose, and though its heroism is now a matter of history, it should remain a source of pride for all Americans

Review: This book fleshes out Tonsetic’s other book about his time with Charlie Co. 4/12, 199th LIB during the Tet Offensive in 1968. Focusing on the 199th as a whole, and the various elements involved, it goes into depth about the pre-Tet battles, the clearing of the Widows Village, Ho Ngai Village, Cholon, and the Phu Tho Racetrack in particular. A great  companion book to those written about the 9th Infantry Division’s 47th and 60th Infantry during the same period like “Two One Pony” and Our Time.

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Books of 2023....

Book 1 of 2023:

Title: Warriors Authors: Robert Tonsetic ISBN: 9780891418443 Tags: AC-47 Spooky, AUS ADF AA Australian Army, AUS ADF Australian Defence Force, AUS Australia, FAC, GBR BA British Army, GBR United Kingdom, Infantry, M113 APC, MYS BA Jungle Warfare School, MYS Malaysia, THA Thailand, THA USSF Special Forces Thailand (Vietnam War), US USA 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, US USA 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment - 2/11, US USA 12th Infantry Regiment, US USA 12th Infantry Regiment - 4/12 - B Co, US USA 12th Infantry Regiment - 4/12 - C Co, US USA 12th Infantry Regiment - 4/12 - D Co, US USA 12th Infantry Regiment - 4/12 - Warriors, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment - Delta Troop, US USA 199th Light Infantry Brigade (Redcatchers), US USA 1st ID, US USA 25th ID, US USA 35th Artillery Regiment, US USA 35th Artillery Regiment - 2/35, US USA 35th Artillery Regiment - 2/35 - C Batt, US USA 40th Artillery Regiment, US USA 40th Artillery Regiment - 2/40, US USA 40th Artillery Regiment - 2/40 - C Batt, US USA 47th Mechanized Infantry Regiment, US USA 47th Mechanized Infantry Regiment - 2/47, US USA 49th Scout Dog Platoon, US USA 4th Cavalry Regiment, US USA 4th Cavalry Regiment - 3/4, US USA 7th Infantry Regiment, US USA 7th Infantry Regiment - 3/17 - Cottonbalers, US USA 87th Engineer Co, US USA 90th Replacement Bn, US USA 9th ID, US USA Combat Trackers - K9, US USA Fort Benning GA, US USA Fort Bragg NC, US USA Fort Hood TX, US USA LRRP Team (Vietnam War), US USA United States Army, US USA USSF Green Berets, US USA USSF Special Forces, US USAF 19th TASS, US USAF 19th TASS - Issue FAC, US USAF United States Air Force, VNM 1968 Tet Offensive (1968) (Vietnam War), VNM ADF AA 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) (Vietnam War), VNM Battle of Long Binh Widows Village (1968) (Tet Offensive) (Vietnam War), VNM Battle of Saigon (1968) (Tet Offensive) (Vietnam War), VNM Battle of Tan Son Nhut (1968) (Tet Offensive) (Vietnam War), VNM Bien Hoa, VNM Bien Hoa Air Base (Vietnam War), VNM Binh Chanh, VNM Binh Tri Dong, VNM Camp Frenzell-Jones - 199th LIB Brigade Main Base (Vietnam War), VNM Cat Lai, VNM Cholon, VNM Cu Chi, VNM Dong Nai Province, VNM Dong Nai River, VNM DRV NVA 246th Bn, VNM DRV NVA 267th Bn, VNM DRV NVA 271st Regiment, VNM DRV NVA 272nd Regiment, VNM DRV NVA North Vietnamese Army, VNM DRV VC 274th Regiment, VNM DRV VC 275th Regiment, VNM DRV VC 5th Division, VNM DRV VC 88th Regiment, VNM DRV VC Dong Nai Regiment, VNM DRV VC Viet Cong, VNM FSB Bolt (Vietnam War), VNM FSB Concord (Vietnam War), VNM FSB Farrell (Vietnam War), VNM FSB Lois (Vietnam War), VNM FSB Nashua (Vietnam War), VNM FSB Stephanie (Vietnam War), VNM FSB Tri-Corners (Vietnam War), VNM Gia Dinh, VNM Go Dau Ha, VNM Highway 1, VNM Highway 22, VNM Highway 22 - Ambush Alley (Vietnam War), VNM Highway 314, VNM Ho Nai, VNM Hoc Mon, VNM III Corps - AO South Uniontown (Vietnam War), VNM III Corps (Vietnam War), VNM Long Binh, VNM Long Binh - Widows Village (Vietnam War), VNM Long Binh Post (Vietnam War), VNM Long Khanh Province, VNM Newport Bridge (Vietnam War), VNM Nha Be, VNM Nui Go Giap, VNM Operation Box Springs (1968) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Fairfax (1966-1967) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Uniontown III (1968) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Valley Forge (1968) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Wilderness (1968) (Vietnam War), VNM RVN ARVN 5th Ranger Group, VNM RVN ARVN Army of the Republic of Vietnam, VNM RVN ARVN RF/PF Regional Forces/Popular Forces (Vietnam War), VNM RVN ARVN Vietnamese Rangers - Biet Dong Quan, VNM Saigon, VNM Saigon - Phu Tho Racetrack, VNM Song Be, VNM Straight Edge Woods, VNM Tan Son Nhut Air Base, VNM Tan Uyen, VNM Tay Ninh, VNM Thu Duc, VNM Thu Duc - Redcatcher Regional Force Training Center (Vietnam War), VNM Trang Bom, VNM US USA 93rd Evacuation Hospital - Long Binh (Vietnam War), VNM US USA II Field Force (1966-1971) (Vietnam War), VNM Van Dong River, VNM Vietnam, VNM Vietnam War (1955-1975), VNM War Zone D (Vietnam War), VNM Xuan Loc Subject: Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.US Army.Infantry

Description: On the ground, in the air, and behind the lines, grunts made life-and-death decisions every day—and endured the worst stress of their young lives. It was the tumultuous year 1968, and Robert Tonsetic was Rifle Company commander of the 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry in Vietnam. He took over a group of grunts demoralized by defeat but determined to get even. Through the legendary Tet and May Offensives, he led, trained, and risked his life with these brave men, and this is the thrilling, brutal, and honest story of his tour of duty. Tonsetic tells of leading a seriously undermanned ready-reaction force into a fierce, three-day battle with a ruthless enemy battalion; conducting surreal night airmobile assaults and treks through fetid, pitch-black jungles; and relieving combat stress by fishing with hand grenades and taking secret joyrides in Hueys. During that fateful year, as unrest erupted at home and politicians groped for a way out of the war, Tonsetic and his men did their job as soldiers and earned the title “Warriors.”

Review: Capt. Tonsetic’s first book about his time in Vietnam covers some key elements of the Tet Offensive, as well as his earlier time as a training advisor in Thailand. It was well written, descriptive, but it also accurately portrays his own weaknesses which he doesn’t gloss over. His stupid fight with his Forward Observer, his frayed mental state at the end that even his own Top and troops noticed, and how he ended up in the mud and concertina wire around the perimeter freaking out about imagined sappers. It’s a good compliment to his follow up book Forsaken Warriors which tells of his time as an advisor to the ARVN Airborne and Rangers after their decimation during Lam Son 719.

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From the source: “SGT Jim Titus, sniper, E/3-7.  Titus carries an M21/M14 rifle with WWII-vintage M84 scope.”

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Kenny Shackelford 199th LIB 2/3 Aug. 28 1968

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RARE Vietnam War US Army Shirt & Pants Uniform Officer Ranger 199th Brigade LIB Act at Once $29.97 https://ebay.to/2IA2bZh

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199th Light Inf. Bde. soldiers unload supplies from a Boeing CH-47 Chinook, 1968.

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In coming Hueys to lift out elements of CoB, 2nd Bn/3rd Inf Reg., 199th Lt. Inf. Bde, from Special Zone “Rung Sat” 1967. 

Submitted by a veteran.

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2Bn. / 3rd. Inf. / 199th Light Inf. Brigade loading onto troopship Gen. Daniel.I. Sultan, Oakland CA. Nov. 1966.  Sultan was one of two ships transporting 199th to VN with MSTS Gen. Pope being the other.

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A wounded 199th LIB soldier is assisted by comrades, 1967.

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A recliner made out of ammo crates is enjoyed by a 199th LIB soldier.

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War Zone D, III Corp. A short respite in the Rung Sat, 1967.  Members of 3rd Plt. CoB, 2Bn/3Inf, 199th L.I.B.

Submitted by a veteran.

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Members of 3rd Plt. CoB, 2nd/3rd, 199th Lt. Inf. Bde mount army Duce & 1/2’s after multiday S&D mission in Mekong Delta s/w of Saigon (War Zone D, III Corp).   Squad leader on right, myself (w/M-60) in middle & fellow squad member on left. Rare pick up by truck. If not walking out, normal extraction was via lift out by UH-1 Hueys, or pick up by the ‘Brown Water Navy’ (water borne LCIs escorted by PBRs.) (1967)

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