Reluctant Lieutenant: From Basic to OCS in the Sixties (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)

"Jerry Morton's memoir of infantry training during the Vietnam War from Basic at Fort Dix through Advanced Infantry at Fort McClellan and, finally, Fort Benning's Officers' Candidate School is detailed and very readable. He vividly gets across the highly pressurized struggle to learn about weapons and the soldier's craft while becoming accustomed to living in barracks as well as surviving in the field. There is a lot of anxiety yet also moments of great humor and, finally, the exultation of achievement."--Edward M. Coffman, University of WisconsinMadisonJerome Morton is the author of 'Reluctant Lieutenant: From Basic to OCS in the Sixties (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)', published 2004 under ISBN 9781585443284 and ISBN 158544328X.