Texas Tech Press,U.S., Sachbücher, Path to a Lonely War: A Naval Hospital Corpsman with the Marines in Vietnam, 1965 (En...

Having just turned eighteen and graduated from high school, and living in small-town Nebraska with nothing much to do, young Dick Schaefer joined the Navy on impulse. Not fully aware of the increasing military action in Vietnam, Schaefer found himself on a train bound for boot camp in San Diego in late summer, 1962. Schaefer's account of his time at boot camp is wry and rollicking.