EPISODE · Sep 25, 2018 · 11H 9M
What Now, Lieutenant? | Robert O. Babcock
from Get Your Favorite Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Military · host Robert O. Babcock
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/354395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Now, Lieutenant? Author: Robert O. Babcock Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: 'Every now and then a work comes along that is so simple and refreshing in its originality that it immediately captures the spirit of American fighting men throughout the ages. Such is this work by Bob Babcock. What makes this work unique is that it is based upon his wartime writing as it occurred, without the softening of time and the refining of modern memory applied to past experience. In it you will find the thinking of a young officer as he struggles to take in all that he is responsible for while experiencing everything himself for the first time. It is an honest, unvarnished look at Soldiering in 1966-1967 and is as fine an example of the early American experience in Vietnam that one is likely to come across . . .' This is the personal account of Bob Babcock's experiences as a platoon leader and executive officer with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/354395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Now, Lieutenant? Author: Robert O. Babcock Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: 'Every now and then a work comes along that is so simple and refreshing in its originality that it immediately captures the spirit of American fighting men throughout the ages. Such is this work by Bob Babcock. What makes this work unique is that it is based upon his wartime writing as it occurred, without the softening of time and the refining of modern memory applied to past experience. In it you will find the thinking of a young officer as he struggles to take in all that he is responsible for while experiencing everything himself for the first time. It is an honest, unvarnished look at Soldiering in 1966-1967 and is as fine an example of the early American experience in Vietnam that one is likely to come across . . .' This is the personal account of Bob Babcock's experiences as a platoon leader and executive officer with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967.
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