Two Tours

About the Book

This book began twenty years ago as a few paragraphs of remembrances written for my father (a retired Army officer) and for my sons (Sandy had heard all my war stories). I would not have been able to flesh out those paragraphs into a book without the help of my letters home. These letters filled in the when and the where and provided many forgotten episodes of my days as the senior advisor of the 36th Vietnamese Ranger Battalion and a company commander and staff officer in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade. The numerous quotations from the letters capture the humorous moments, the exhilaration, the occasional sorrow, and the optimistic can-so attitude of a young captain in combat.

About the Author

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Lieutenant Colonel (ret) John E. Parker graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1963. He holds a master’s degree in English literature from Indiana University and spent three of his twenty-one years of active duty as a member of the English Department at West Point. He retired from the Army in 1984 and he, Sandy, and two sons settled in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As well as skiing in the winter and visiting four grandchildren in the summer, he busies himself editing PhD dissertation for students enrolled in on-line universities.