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On his first combat assignment, Cornett accompanied the Vietnamese Rangers on a search-and-destroy mission near Khe Sanh. There he earned entree into a culture that he would ultimately respect greatly and admire deeply. Cornett's most challenging military duty began when he joined the Phoenix Program. As part of Ak squad, he dressed in enemy uniform and roamed the deadly Central Highlands, capturing high-ranking VC officers in hot firefights and ambushes. It was there, deep in enemy territory, where the smallest mistake meant suddendeath, that the Vietnamese fighting men earned his utmost respect.While offering rare glimpses of an aspect of the war most of the military and media never saw, Cornett tells the full, gut-wrenching story of his Vietnam. He also gives and unsparing view of himself -- telling a no-holds-barred story of an American soldier who made sacrifices far beyond the call of duty...a soldier who, in defiance of the U.S. government, refused to turn his back on the Vietnamese.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories True stories True war & combat stories

• Full title: Gone Native
• Subtitle: An NCO's Story
• Author: Alan Cornett
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• EAN: 9780804116374
• ISBN: 0804116377
• ID: 09235685
• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Weight: 155 g
• Dimensions: 171 × 102 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. June 2000

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