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Texas A&M University Press Reluctant Lieutenant: From Basic to OCS in the Sixties (Texas A & M University Military History): 94

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With intimidating tales of bellowing drill instructors and their seemingly incongruous tasks, Reluctant Lieutenant captures the essence of what it meant to survive the training regimen of the Old Army. Author Jerry Morton is as much at home describing blind navigation through the woods on a dark night as recounting the perils of smuggling a skin flick into his barracks at OCS. In this memoir, Morton reconstructs his reluctant journey through basic training, advanced infantry training, and Infantry Officer Candidate School during the Vietnam era. His is a unique record of what it was like to be a conscript in the U.S. Army in the late 1960s. Morton's account also provides a roadmap to the sociology and culture of the military, especially the class system that divided college graduates from those with less education or economic stature yet did not override a solidarity in the field. He describes his disappointment and discomfort at being ""killed"" during training ambushes. But he also shows how someone with a master's degree in psychology could adapt to an environment in which the army did the thinking and the soldier the doing. However unintentional, by the end of his journey Morton was no longer a civilian but an officer, adept at army gamesmanship and ready for command. This book offers an informative foray into the training system used during the Vietnam era, and veterans of the Old Army will find their memories kindled. Review "Jerry Morton's memoir of infantry training during the Vietnam War from Basic at Fort Dix through Advanced Infantry at Fort McClellan and, finally, Fort Benning's Officers' Candidate School is detailed and very readable. He vividly gets across the highly pressurized struggle to learn about weapons and the soldier's craft while becoming accustomed to living in barracks as well as surviving in the field. There is a lot of anxiety, yet also moments of great humor and, finally, the exultation of achievement."-Edward M. Coffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison--Edward M. Coffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison About the Author JERRY MORTON, director of the Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative, earned his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Upon receiving his commission, he was assigned to the JFK Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

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Brand: Texas A&M University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 158544328X
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Types of Architecture > Memorials & Monuments
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 June 2004
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

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