Elite Bastards
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Elite Bastards

The Combat Missions of Company F, LRP Teams in Vietnam

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Elite Bastards

The Combat Missions of Company F, LRP Teams in Vietnam

About this book

The quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. This is the quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier at war. Edward Dvorak joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam in the summer of 1967. He then joined Company F, 51st Infantry, Long Range Patrol, Airborne. For Dvorak and his buddies of Company F, LRP, their real training started with the MACV (Military Assistant Command Vietnam) Recondo School at the 5th Special Forces Compound in Nha Trang, South Vietnam. That training culminated with an actual Combat LRP mission. If you lived through the patrol, you graduated. Dvorak would remain with Company F for 19 months going on dozens of combat patrols deep behind enemy lines.

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Information

Publisher
Pen and Sword Military
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781526789686
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Book Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. The First Three Principles of a Lurp’s Field Manual
  6. A Combat Seasoned Lurp’s Opinion
  7. Prologue
  8. Chapter 1 You’re in the Army Now
  9. Chapter 2 The 173rd Airborne Brigade (aka The Herd)
  10. Chapter 3 Dak To
  11. Chapter 4 Walking point for the 4th Battalion of the 173rd Abn Brigade
  12. Chapter 5 My Fifth Act of Volunteering
  13. Chapter 6 MACV Recondo School
  14. Chapter 7 The First Mission as a Lurp
  15. Chapter 8 In the Rear Routine
  16. Chapter 9 Training for LURPS, Repelling and McQuire Rigs
  17. Chapter 10 A Lurp Team’s Mission Preparations
  18. Chapter 11 First Contact for Team 1-5
  19. Chapter 12 Top of Lurp Pride, Bottom of the Patrol List
  20. Chapter 13 New Year, a Festive and Dangerous Holiday
  21. Chapter 14 Continuing Pre-TET Missions
  22. Chapter 15 1968 TET Offensive, Phase 1
  23. Chapter 16 The E-Ticket Ride: Pre-Tet, 1968
  24. Chapter 17 The Tet Offensive; Phase II, The Attack
  25. Chapter 18 Shit Burning Detail
  26. Chapter 19 Post-Tet, February 4, 1968
  27. Chapter 20 Death from Above (Almost)
  28. Chapter 21 Intelligence Missions for the Alphabet Agency
  29. Chapter 22 A Week as a LURP/Standdown and Bellyman, February 10, 1968
  30. Chapter 23 A Short Mission; February 11, 1968
  31. Chapter 24 February 29, 1968, a Routine Lurp Mission
  32. Plate
  33. Chapter 25 Deadly Shit Happens in a War Zone
  34. Chapter 26 Another Day in the Artillery War Zone
  35. Chapter 27 Supervision 101 in the Combat Zone
  36. Chapter 28 R&R in Australia
  37. Chapter 29 Murphy and the Grim Reaper Pay Team 1-5 a Visit; April 12, 1968
  38. Chapter 30 Our New AO; Cu Chi; April 23, 1968
  39. Chapter 31 Loches; Hunter Killer Teams
  40. Chapter 32 24 Hours in the Life of a LURP at Basecamp
  41. Chapter 33 24 Hours in the Life of a LURP on a Mission
  42. Chapter 34 Patience is a Required Virtue for a Lurp Team/Team Members
  43. Chapter 35 Near Death First Mission after Returning from Leave in South Dakota
  44. Chapter 36 An Ambush Initiated By Smell
  45. Chapter 37 Selecting a Primary and Secondary LZ
  46. Chapter 38 Top Secret Intelligence/Need to Know
  47. Chapter 39 An Arc Light that Hit a Target
  48. Chapter 40 Viva Los Cambodia
  49. Chapter 41 The Boom Boom Girls of Bien Hoa
  50. Chapter 42 Sometimes, you’re the HUNTER and sometimes, you’re the HUNTED
  51. Chapter 43 Face to Face Combat
  52. Chapter 44 Explosives 101
  53. Chapter 45 C-4 and a Lurp’s Cookout
  54. Chapter 46 Search for a PoW Camp
  55. Chapter 47 Last Chance for the Grim Reaper to Collect My Body and Soul
  56. Chapter 48 The Grim Reaper Collects another Soul
  57. Backcover