A gripping and telling memoir of a young U.S. Air Force enlistee during the Vietnam War who served as a Sentry Dog Handler. The airman weaves an intimate tale of friendships and rivalries, bravery and fears, and the bonds between men and their dogs. They trained and worked together as a team and protected military personnel and machines from attack. This is a behind-the-scenes portrayal-from nightly guard duty at Phu Cat Air Base to off-time in city bars and back alleys.
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Produkt-Hinweis
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Gewebe-Einband
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-7326719-1-1 (9781732671911)
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For me, the lives led by the canine handlers-that is, the U. S. Air Force Sentry Dog Handlers-and their noble canines, continued for twelve months (365 nights). Every day I counted the nights until my very own Freedom Bird arrived to take me home.
My dog Junior would be dead by December 1970-used up and discarded like all broken weapons. Four thousand noble canine gave all; they all gave all. This will never happen again; it must not happen again. It was so wasteful and disrespectful of all animal-kind. German shepherds were work-horses in Vietnam, and many of them were simply worked to death. Never again!
Jimmie Moore and his wife Virginia live in Florida.
