Path to a Lonely War: A Naval Hospital Corpsman with the Marines in Vietnam, 1965

by Richard W Schaefer

Having just turned eighteen and graduated from high school, and living insmall-town Nebraska with nothing much to do, young Dick Schaefer joinedthe Navy on impulse, hoping that by choosing his branch of the military hewould have some measure of control over his future. Not fully aware of the increasing military action in Vietnam, Schaefer found himself on a train bound for boot camp in San Diego in late summer, 1962. Schaefer's account of his time...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682830020
• ISBN13: 9781682830024
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"