LBJ's Hired Gun by Gebhart, John J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents PREFACE AUTHOR’S NOTE Dedication 1. MY PARRIS ISLAND VACATION: Marine Boot Camp

In The Beginning Boot Camp Rude Awakening My New Home The Rope The Piss Ants The Pack of Cigarettes The Whitman Incident Swamp Thing Pugil Sticks Rifle Range

2. MY CRUISE SHIP TO ’NAM

The Good Ship Lollypop Havoc on Hotel Street The He/She Incident Aviation Guaranteed Our Luxury Yacht The D-Day Landing The Screaming Mimis Laying Wire and Riding Shotgun The Boy Who Blew Up The Marlboro Man Play Money

3. MY BEACHFRONT PROPERTY: Misadventures at Marble Mountain

The Soul Brother Bunker The 3.5 Rocket Incident Paddy-Hopping Hawkins Guard Duty: The Attack on Marble Mountain The Bruiser AK-47 Sergeant Kilpatrick My Dog Prince The M-48 Tank Visit Jungle Survival School The Prodigal Son Returns Private First Class Punchy the Monkey The Day I Met My Guardian Angel The KIA Guard The Clap Red Beach Navy Drone Disaster The Dog that Exploded Zips in the Wire Mortars Our First VC Prisoner The One-Man Transfer

4. LEARNING TO DEAL OUT DEATH FROM ABOVE

My Welcome to the Land of Mud The Great Grapefruit Investigation NSU, or How I Became a Huey Door Gunner. Mission Number One The Balls Test Rockets Away The Holy Man Two-Shot Chu Lai Charlie The KGB Spy

5. DAILY LIFE AT CLUB MED, CHU LAI

The Phantom Faggot The Twin Brothers The Island The Great Popcorn Tragedy Shithouse Jackson How Sergeant Reckless Lost His Crackers LST 912 My R&R Trip to Hong Kong

6. EARNING MY KEEP: More Adventures of a Huey Door Gunner

Carrier Warfare The Dynamic Duo: Captain Thrill and Lieutenant Seeker The Day of the General They Died With Their Boots On The Nungs Wildlife

7. EXTENDING MY TROPICAL VACATION FOR ANOTHER YEAR

The Private War of the First Sergeants How Major Moose Got His M-16 Rifle Suicide Sam Meritorious Promotion to Corporal My Dear John Letter Major Misery Going Home The New People First Sergeant Rocky Sergeant Snake Eyes Christmas in ’Nam, 1966 Corporal Wiseass The Tunnel Rat and the Tiger Beef and Beer Beach Party Corporal Wiseass’s Trip to Lunch Nurse Michelle

8. MY SIDETRIP TO AUSTRALIA

The Passport Trek, Da Nang Second Passport Trek, Saigon The Motorcycle Bandits My Return Trip to Chu Lai Australia, Here I Come My Thirty-Day Vacation The American Embassy, Sydney Heaven Down Under My Triumphant Return

9. WORKING AT THE DUDE RANCH FOR LBJ

How Major Goodheart Went to Heaven Paybacks are a Gook’s Worst Nightmare How I Taught Myself to Swim The Great Swimming Test Major Misery’s Miracle The Reactionary Platoon The Peninsula Incident One Pachyderm Bites the Dust The Day We Fell From the Sky The VC Submarine Incident The Beetle-Toothed Old Lady Who Exploded Number Ten’s Deadly Descent The Trawler Incident The Hedge That Moved The Old Man and the Swimming Hole King Cobra The Zip I Cut In Half Groundhog Day Number 8 Disintegrate The ROKs The Bucket of Blood The Hidden Trench My Last Mission

10. HAPPY TRAILS: Good Luck and Goodbye

Going Home, September 1967 LA International My Last Assignment

GLOSSARY APPENDIX: Marine Songs and Gunship Missions OUR MISSIONS AT KLONDIKE Copyright

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