| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Utter's Battalion by A. Lee, Lt. Col. USMC (ret),
By JD CONROY JR. D.O. (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Utter's Battalion: 2/7 Marines in Vietnam, 1965-66 (Mass Market Paperback)
This work is classic A.Lee. A human drama of the life of a Marine Battalion in training and in combat. This is required reading for any Marine officer in a line Battalion to understand what is expected and the difficulties of functioning in the fog of war. More importantly is the description of how professional Marines continue to function and to fight under deplorable conditions even when the senior leadership and the political leaders have not a clue of the real expense in terms of body bags being sent home. One has the feel of the fear, the closeness of the Marines and the and the futility of fighting with your hands tied. These young Marines went to war under the orders of our goverment and Lee caputures the heart and soul of how a Batalion is the home of the spirit of the Marine Corps. Survial and duty based on the Marine you work with and not the politicians far away. A.Lee later became CO 3/1 1st Mar Div where I served under him as a 1st LT. I can say that the reverence that A. Lee felt to Lt. Col. Utter was the same reverence felt by all the Marines in 3/1 to A.Lee. He demomstrated the highest integrety, fairness,and was always looking out for the individual Marine who, in the end, does the dying for this country. Utter would be proud of Lee's Battalion
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Family History,
This review is from: Utter's Battalion: 2/7 Marines in Vietnam, 1965-66 (Mass Market Paperback)
This, to me and to any number of Marines who served in 2/7 is family history. Were we to gather around a dinner table and reminisce, these are the memories we would pass down. LtCol Lee has captured the very essence of a Marine infantry battalion - young men succeding in the worst of circumstances because of the love and respect they found for each other as Marines. As a young Marine I served with 2/7 from January 1967 to April 1968, a time just following the period covered by this book. We heard about LtCol Utter and the "gas incident" and couldn't understand the consternation of those without first-hand rifle company-level experience in Vietnam. We found a reel to reel tape whereon some earlier 2/7 Marines sang (to the tune of Ray Charles' "I'm Busted") "I write to my mom all about Vietnam, 'cause back in the states there is cause for alarm, old Colonel Utter has used the gas bomb, He'll get busted." This book is a well-written, very readable contemporary history covering the earliest days of USMC service in Vietnam. Well worth anyone's time to read; for contemporary Marines - a MUST read. Semper Fi, JJ Short Sergeant, USMC (1966-1973)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
My father's history,
By WJC (Charlotte, North Carolina United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Utter's Battalion: 2/7 Marines in Vietnam, 1965-66 (Mass Market Paperback)
All of my life I have wondered what my father's Marine Corps and Viet Nam experience was like. He served Echo company, 3rd Platoon under Cpt. FL Tolleson. Lee unloads, unfairly, on Tolleson in the book and takes certain liberties with after action reports, but my father said he was right on in the day to day descriptions. He remembered every single action described between July and Nov. 1965.7th Marines were the last to go war on troop transports as a complete unit and make a beach head landing. Lee describes the journey to war perfectly. My father kept commenting on how accurate much of the book was. Thanks to Lt. Col. Lee for filling in the gaps.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
