Vietnam's TERRIBLE Night Shift Conditions of a Grunt!

This comes from ordnance technical documentation, military medical records on amphetamine distribution, veteran accounts of night operations, and the confirmed testimony of NVA and Viet Cong veterans about what they knew of American night positions. SOURCES: U.S. Army Ordnance Corps. "AN/PVS-2 Starlight Scope Technical Manual." TM 11-5855-203-12. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Ordnance Corps. "M18A1 Claymore Mine Technical Manual." TM 9-1345-203-12. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Signal Corps. "TA-312 Field Telephone Technical Manual." Department of the Army. Plaster, John L. "SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam." Simon & Schuster, 1997. (LP and night operations documentation) Kuzmarov, Jeremy. "The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs." University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. Baker, Mark. "Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There." William Morrow, 1981. Lanning, Michael Lee. "The Only War We Had: A Platoon Leader's Journal of Vietnam." Ivy Books, 1987. Herr, Michael. "Dispatches." Knopf, 1977. Nolan, Keith W. "Into Cambodia." Presidio Press, 1990. U.S. Army Medical Department. "Stimulant Distribution in Combat Operations, Vietnam Theater." Medical bulletin, declassified. Grossman, Dave. "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society." Little, Brown, 1995. Terry, Wallace. "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans." Random House, 1984. Pribbenow, Merle. "Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam." University Press of Kansas, 2002. (NVA perspective on detection of American positions) National Archives. MACV Night Operations After-Action Reports, 1966-1972. Declassified. CherriesWriter.com. Veteran oral accounts on LP duty and night operations.

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