Six Silent Men, Book Two (101st Lrp/Rangers) Review

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(More customer reviews)The chronology of events depicted within this book reveal a real life story that I as a member shared and remember as if it were only yesterday. The high lights as discussed in the book were the captain shepard stepping on the mine planted by someone in the company, the fight at the club which I was involved in and other lurps wanting to blow it up. The story about John Quick eating the frog was a reminder because I was the lurp who Quick had asked to fetch the frog and as the story tells killed him by early morning. The story of the two lurp teams toward the end of the book reveal an ending that I have wonder about for the last 34years because just week earlier I was on a mission with Riley Cox and Contreaus. I left Viet Nam 19 November and by the time I got to California the word was out that two lurp teams had met their demise and one team was lead by Contreaus.My nickname for Cox was mule because he was a big guy and he carried my claymore mines for me. We were young and patriotic and we wanted to serve our country. We-----------didn"t lose the war, the politicians lost it. Thank you and god bless.

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In the summer of 1967, the good old days were ending for the hard-core 1st Brigade LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division, perhaps the finest maneuver element of its size in the history of the United States Army. It was a bitter pill. After working on their own in Vietnam for more than two years, the Brigade LRRPs were ordered to join forces with the division once again.But even as these formidable hunters and killers were themselves swallowed up by the Screaming Eagles' Division LRPs to eventually become F Co., 58th Infantry, they continued the deadly, daring LRRP tradition. From saturation patrols along the Laotian border to near-suicide missions and compromised positions in the always dangerous A Shau valley, the F/58th unflinchingly faced death every day and became one of the most highly decorated companies in the history of the 101st.

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