One Day, one dare and one ride changes everything. With the Vietnam war raging in 1967 and with the unacceptable loss of too many experienced special operations soldiers, nineteen-year-old Tom Green, born in a tack shed in a small Southern mill town, steps off the plane in Bien Hoi, Vietnam. Randomly chosen as a cherry to fill that loss, he begins the training to be a long range patrol (LRP) soldier. The journey from small town grocery boy to experienced...