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Index
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Author’s Notes
Prologue
Part One: Bravo Company
1. Mesmerized by Dog Tags
2. A Thief in the Barracks
3. An Old Black Shoelace
4. “Weaklings and Fatties and Dummies”
5. Sleep Deprivation
6. Running Away
7. The Sergeants’ Great Fear
8. Hearing Voices
9. Two Varieties of Hell
Part Two: Special Training Company
10. Joe Tucker’s Bad Back
11. Not by Strength Alone
12. “I Refuse to Train!”
13. The Ugly Young
14. Sent by God?
15. “I Want to Know Why”
Part Three: Project 100,000
16. Coercion
17. Avoidance
18. McNamara’s Plan
19. “A Crime Against the Mentally Disabled”
20. Sign up and See Paris
Part Four: War in a Faraway Place
21. Training for War
22. The Killing Fields of Vietnam
23. Casualties of War
24. “Rich Man’s War and a Poor Man’s Fight”
25. Walking Point
26. Stories Told by Veterans
27. Walking Wounded
28. Going Crazy
29. Crime and Punishment
30. Unfit for Combat, but He Wins a Silver Star
Part Five: Unfit Men and Criminals
31. The Bottom of the Barrel
32. “If You Can Breathe, You’re In”
33. Too Heavy, Too Thin, Too Short
34. Criminals
35. Misfits
36. Who Was Who?
Part Six: Winners and Losers
37. Success Stories
38. Absent Without Leave
39. Bad Paper
40. The Verdict on McNamara’s Folly
41. The Folly Continues
Epilogue
Appendix: Samples from the AFQT
Acknowledgements
Illustration Credits
Sources
About the Author
Back cover
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