Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804118752 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and NVA countersniper ambushes are fascinating. From the Inside Flap WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966. In DEAD CENTER, Kugler demonstrates the importance to a sniper of patience, marksmanship, bush skills, and guts--w
Author, Robert F. Burgess said LOCK AND LOAD FOR AN EXCITING ONE. Kug, you have written an excellent book about your time in Vietnam. Your words and emotions during the combat scenes would have brought cheers from Ernest Hemingway. Your descriptions of your comrades, both the crazies and the almost crazies, were right on. Those you bonded to, so did your readers. You made the reader understand that bond and what it feels like to lose your close comrades to the horrors you were all immersed in. I was particularly impressed by your ability to get across to your reade. Not as detailed a book on sniping as it is a book on life in Vietnam by a marine. J. Daily One of the best books on a marines life in Vietnam. Even though he's a sniper, the author does a better description talking about the daily life. He glosses over sniper training and takes you right to Nam. The boredom, the heat, the terror, the rain, the loss of friends, the loss of a part of his soul. A great account. If you want the nitty gritty details of sniping, this probably isn't the book for you. If you want a great account of what it was like living life out in the bush for days and on remot. In memory of Tomo Kindle Customer I metTomo seven years ago. I had the privilege to get to know him but not as well as others. He had shared some stories and photos with my brother and I. I wish I had a chance to read this prior to his passing. He was a great guy that we looked up to. Thank you Mr. Kruger for sharing your time with us.
To take advantage of that experience, he formed the Rogues, a five-sniper team that hunted in the Co Bi-Than Tan Valley for VC and NVA. WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST.Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and NVA countersniper ambushes are fascinating.In DEAD CENTER, Kugler demonstrates the importance to a sniper of patience, marksmanship, bush
He is the author of the inspirational self-help booklet A Dozen Things I Learned About Life as a Marine Sniper in Vietnam. He lives with his wife of thirty years and their family in Spring, Texas. He was then Vice President, Worldwide Logistics, for Compaq Computer Corporation and vice president of Telxon Corporation. Today Ed is a business and change management consultant. . He is the recipient of two Purple Hearts an