Quang Tri Cadence Memoir of a Rifle Platoon Leader in the Mountains of Vietnam

He flunked out of college in 1965, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1966, and was shipped off to Fort Benning, Georgia, to become the commodity a wartime army most quickly expends - the rifle platoon leader. Drawing from his memories and the battalion's radio log, former lieutenant Jon Oplinger recounts the dread, fear, and bewilderment of the everyday life of a grunt. Follow him through the Central Highlands of Vietnam as he chronicles the daily struggle to stay alive. From the "Benning School for Boys" to the battlefields of Vietnam, the author discovers that there are no heroes: only survivors.