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Author Atherton, Andrew, author.

Title Drafted : the Mostly True Tales of a Rear Echelon Mother Fu**er.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Treehouse Publishing Group, 2013.

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Summary Married for several years and just shy of twenty-six, philosophy student Andrew Atherton receives his draft notice and suddenly finds himself immersed in a military culture for which he is neither well suited nor prepared. After surviving basic and advanced individual training, he is sent to Vietnam as an infantryman. Instead of humping in the boonies with the 101st, however, he is assigned to be a clerk and ends up editing Bronze Star and Purple Heart recommendations and publishing his battalion's newspaper. And at night, he goes back to the office to type letters home to his wife and stories-both amusing and disturbing-that reflect his awakening to the heroism and horror, tedium and terror, and the incompetence and banal cruelty of life in a war zone.
Contents Drafted; author's note; prologue; part one: becoming a soldier; basic training; the draft notice; private duchek; i am a man; kentucky dirt; lost in the woods; advanced individual training; i ain't comin' back like that; land mine course; the flight to war; part two: vietnam; incountry; ugly truth, ugly justice; bronze stars and purple hearts; de-drumming; r and r; perilous foundations; intervention; kp with bruno, tweeze, and berry; riding high with mangus; going out in trucks; pure dumb luck; ralph mantis; roving guard; jimmy beamis; snapshot; getting out and going home; glossary.
Subject United States. Army -- Military life -- Fiction.
United States. Army -- Biography -- Fiction.
United States. Army. Engineer Battalion, 1140th -- Biography -- Fiction.
United States. Army. (OCoLC)fst00533532
Vietnam War (1961-1975) (OCoLC)fst01431664
Soldiers -- Anecdotes -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Biography -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American -- Fiction.
FICTION -- War & Military.
FICTION -- General.
Armed Forces -- Military life. (OCoLC)fst01351813
Soldiers. (OCoLC)fst01125233
Chronological Term 1961-1975
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Other Form: Print version: Atherton, Andrew. Drafted : The Mostly True Tales of a Rear Echelon Mother Fu**er. New York : Treehouse Publishing Group, ©2013
ISBN 0989207927 (electronic bk.) (EPUB)
9780989207928 (electronic bk.)
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