Ranger
eBook - ePub

Ranger

A Soldier's Life

  1. 306 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Ranger

A Soldier's Life

About this book

On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several hundred Chinese attackers. Their commander, Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, was wounded three times before he was evacuated. For his actions, he received the country's second-highest award for courage on the battlefieldā€”the Distinguished Service Crossā€”and resumed active duty later that year as a living legend.

In this inspiring autobiography, Colonel Ralph Puckett recounts his extraordinary experiences on and off the battlefield. After he returned from Korea, Puckett joined the newly established US Army Ranger Department, serving as an instructor and tactical officer, and commanding companies at Fort Benning and in the Ranger Mountain Camp in north Georgia. He went on to lead companies in Vietnam, train cadets at West Point, and organize the Escuela de Lancero leadership course in Colombia. Puckett's story is critical reading for soldiers, leaders, military historians, and others interested in the impact of conflict on individual soldiers as well as the military as a whole.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. 1. Georgia Boy: Early Influences
  7. 2. Want to Be a Flyboy: Training with the U.S. Army Air Corps Enlisted Reserve
  8. 3. A Soldierā€™s Apprenticeship: West Point, Fort Riley, Kansas, and Fort Benning, Georgia
  9. 4. Korea: Eighth Army Ranger Company
  10. 5. Back on Track: Convalescence, Marriage, and the Ranger Department
  11. 6. Latin Sojourn: U.S. Army Caribbean Command and Forming the Colombian Ranger School
  12. 7. Climbing the Army School Ladder: Infantry Advanced Course, USMAPS, and the Command and General Staff College
  13. 8. Tenth Special Forces Group: Three-Year Idyll in Bavaria
  14. 9. Three More Way Stations Cleared: Armed Forces Staff College, the Pentagon, and U.S. Army War College
  15. 10. Strike Force: Battalion Command in Vietnam
  16. 11. Tet: The Unexpected Crossover
  17. 12. West Point: Changing Times at the Academy
  18. 13. The Fort Carson Blues: Troubled Birth of the New Army
  19. 14. Life in Mufti: Outward Bound, Discovery, and MicroBilt
  20. 15. Not All Old Soldiers Fade Away: Fort Benning Redux
  21. Afterword
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Index