The story of Puckett's experiences in Vietnam during his first tour of duty in 1966 with the US Army 1st Division - 'The Big Red One'. He gives his impressions of arriving in a country where the GIs cared more about the outcome of the war than the people of Saigon, his first sweeps over the rice paddies looking for 'Charlie', the tension of night operations, B-52 'Arclite' strikes on VC tunnel complexes, and extraction from an LZ under fire (with F-4 and Hueycobra gunship strikes). A small but scarce memoir.
