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...utter confusion. I repressed my own terror and started to make my way forward to find out what had happened. When I got to the head of the column, I saw a knot of Vietnamese huddled around a groaning soldier, a medic kneeling at his side. An ARVN noncom gestured toward the creek. Another small figure lay there in a fetal crouch. His head was turned sideways, and the creek flowed across his face. This man was dead. We had been ambushed. We had taken casualties from attackers who had vanished before we had ever seen them. The whole cycle...
...until 1 a.m. "There was always a lot of booze," recalls a former American nanny. "People got more and more rowdy as the night progressed. You'd see couples sprawled all over the couches, and others would head off into the Marines' rooms." She claimed that even a Marine noncom leader joined in the "Animal House" carousing. "When you see your boss getting dead drunk and going around pinching women, it doesn't make for a very strict atmosphere...
...with Los Alamos espionage, Smith risks breaking his illusion of authenticity by neglecting key figures. He is far more effective with Pena, racked between his heritage and his ambitions. The sergeant is a winning creation, even though he stretches belief by conducting a lot of personal business as a noncom assigned to a supersecret project: trysting with Fraulein Weiss, trying to buy a nightclub, getting into shape for a high-stakes boxing match, taking care of Indian affairs and sidetracking Captain Augustino's plot to make Oppenheimer look like a Soviet...
...Soldier's Play. Charles Fuller's drama of tensile strength about a World War II black outfit stationed in Louisiana that gets involved in a racial whodunit. The central character, brilliantly portrayed by Adolph Caesar, is a black Regular Army noncom who is as tough as bully beef...
...Dressed in rumpled khaki pants and a windbreaker, he climbed briskly up the steps to the third floor and out onto a flat roof. There he answered his officers' questions about the rest of the operation and snapped out quick orders. "Are we going to enter Beirut?" asked a noncom. "No," replied Sharon flatly. "We must stay away from Beirut." He explained: "I shall avoid at all costs fighting a battle inside the city of Beirut. The elimination of the terrorists' headquarters inside the city should be carried out by the government of Lebanon...