Vietnam's BRUTAL First Days' Conditions of a Grunt!

This comes from veteran oral accounts, military psychology studies on combat initiation, after-action reports, and the documented testimony of men who remember their first days in country with a clarity that decades haven't dimmed. SOURCES: Baker, Mark. "Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There." William Morrow, 1981. Caputo, Philip. "A Rumor of War." Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. O'Brien, Tim. "The Things They Carried." Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Appy, Christian G. "Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam." University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Herr, Michael. "Dispatches." Knopf, 1977. Lanning, Michael Lee. "The Only War We Had: A Platoon Leader's Journal of Vietnam." Ivy Books, 1987. Terry, Wallace. "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans." Random House, 1984. Marlowe, David H. "Psychological and Psychosocial Consequences of Combat and Deployment." RAND Corporation, 2001. U.S. Army Infantry School. "Combat Training Program, Vietnam Era." Fort Benning historical documentation. Mason, Robert. "Chickenhawk." Viking Press, 1983. (Helicopter pilot account of FNG arrival and integration) Nolan, Keith W. "Into Cambodia." Presidio Press, 1990. (Includes FNG experience documentation) Goldman, Peter and Fuller, Tony. "Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did to Us." William Morrow, 1983. Military Affiliate Radio System Historical Documentation. National Archives, 1965-1973. CherriesWriter.com. Veteran oral accounts on FNG experience and first days in country. Grossman, Dave. "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society." Little, Brown, 1995.