The author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego illprepared for the training and abuse that awaited him in boot camp. At the time, he would have done anything to escape only upon reflection years later did he realize that the selfconfidence instilled in him by his drill instructors had probably saved his life in Vietnam. A few months after boot camp, Private Ball was shipped out to Vietnam, joining F Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, near Khe Sanh. As a grunt, in the vernacular of the Corps, Ball, like the other youths of F Company, did a difficult and deadly job in such places as the A Shau Valley, Leatherneck Square, the DMZ and other obscure but critical I Corps locales. Histheirfear of death mingled with homesickness. Little did they realize that the horrors of the Vietnam Warhorrors that while incountry they often claimed did not even existwould haunt them for the rest of their lives.

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