Praying for Slack: A Marine Corps Tank Commander in Viet Nam

Corporal Robert Peavey Was A Tank Commander Operating In I Corps (eye Corps) On The Dmz When Lbj [lyndon Baines Johnson] Ordered A Bombing Halt Over The North. His ... First-hand Account Chronicles Operations Just South Of The 'z ... He Offers Detailed ... Explanations Of Combat Strategy, Strengths And Shortcomings Of Standard-issue Armament, And Interservice Rivalries--jacket. How It All Began -- Crossing The Pond -- The Debut -- Welcome To Eye Corps -- First Rites -- Time -- Allen Brook -- Angels Flying Too Close To The Ground -- Friendly Fire -- Not So Tough -- Movin' North -- The Night The War Was Lost -- Life's Certain Flavor -- The Steel Ghost -- Apricots -- With The Doggies On The Dmz -- Tiger! -- Twenty-nine And A Wake-up -- Too Short For This Shit. Robert E. Peavey. Two different wars were fought in Vietnam, the jungle-and-booby-trap one down south, and the WWII-like one up on the DMZ. "I was one of a handful whose Vietnam tour was evenly split between the First and Third Marine Divisions, and saw, firsthand, the difference 170 miles could make during the war's bloodiest year." Corporal Robert Peavey was a tank commander in I Corps (Eye Corps) on the DMZ when LBJ ordered a bombing halt over the North. His compelling first-hand account chronicles operations just south of the 'Z, operations that most Vietnam War histories have completely ignored. Peavey offers detailed, understandable explanations of combat strategy, strengths and shortcomings of standard-issue armament, and inter-service rivalries. It was a pitch-black night on the northernmost outpost in all of South Vietnam.