Reluctant Warrior: A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam

by Michael C. Hodgins Narrated by John McLain

Overview

By the spring of 1970, American troops were ordered to pull out of Vietnam. The Marines of 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel "Wild Bill" Drumright, were assigned to cover the withdrawal of 1st Marine Division. The Marines of 1st RECON Bn operated in teams of six or seven men. Heavily armed, the teams fought a multitude of bitter engagements with a numerically superior and increasingly aggressive enemy.



Michael C. Hodgins served in Company C, 1st RECON Bn (Rein), as a platoon leader. In powerful, graphic prose, he chronicles his experience as a patrol leader in myriad combat situations-from hasty ambush to emergency extraction to prisoner snatch to combined-arms ambush . . .

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170929627
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	04/10/2018
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	944,417

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