Faced with a 1-A draft classification after graduation from college in the spring of 1968, the author decided to control his own destiny by volunteering for the draft. Soon he was given the one job he most wanted to avoid--infantryman. This is a foot soldier's story of twelve long months in Vietnam. Assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, much of his time was spent fighting a guerrilla war along the Cambodian border during the "Vietnamization" program. Day-to-day platoon operations produced dread, fear, bafflement, loyalty, disillusionment and ecstasy among the men fighting and dying in the jungle. The lack of leadership, both military and political, exacerbated the conditions.

A trip through the Age of Aquarius, drugs, hippies, war protesters, powwow, love, war and peace, soldiers, the Vietnam War, Agent Orange, Napalm, covert missions and bizarre creatures in the jungles of Indochina. Enter the rabbit hole of the Sixties and Seventies.

JACK ENGELHARD, author of the international best seller INDECENT PROPOSAL says: "Cassell writes it straight and his most noticeable skill is his ability to take us with him wherever he goes."

A journal for military defense counsel.