Across The Fence: The Secret War In Vietnam - Softcover

Meyer, John Stryker

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9780974361802: Across The Fence: The Secret War In Vietnam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974361801 ISBN 13: 9780974361802

Publisher: Real War Stories Inc, 2004

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SUPERANNO True stories of bravery by the men of MACV-SOG. The author, a One-Zero for RT Idaho during the Vietnam War whose team was sent into Laos to conduct covert missions against the North Vietnamese, recounts some of those missions as well as those by other teams in a straightforward and clear-eyed manner. Relive those days with him as he talks about "just another day" in America's secret war. Original.

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About the Author:

Born 19 January 1946, John Stryker Meyer entered the Army on 1 December 1966. He completed basic training at Ft. Dix, New Jersey, advanced infantry training at Ft. Gordon, Georgia, jump school at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course in December 1967. After a 12-week training session in Ft. Gordon, on radio teletype, Meyer landed in South Vietnam in April 1968, and arrived at FOB 1 in Phu Bai in May 1968, where he joined Spike Team Idaho. When FOB 1 was closed in January 1969, ST Idaho was helicoptered to FOB 4 in Da Nang, which became designated Command and Control North, CCN. He remained on ST Idaho through the end of his tour of duty in late April. Returned to the U.S. and was assigned to E Company in the 10th Special Forces Group at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts until October 1969, when he rejoined ST Idaho at CCN. That tour of duty ended suddenly in April 1970 after the CCN commander refused Meyer s first request to pull his four-man team from an A Shau Valley target. He returned to the States, completed his college education at Trenton State College, where he was editor of the school newspaper, The Signal, for two years, worked at the Trenton Times for 10 years, eight years at the San Diego Union and has been an editor at the North County Times for 10 years in Oceanside, California, where he also writes occasional columns. Meyer received his 20-year membership pin from the Special Operations Association in 2002. He and his wife Anna have five children and live in Oceanside, Ca.

Review:

As the commander of SOG, I can say that Across the Fence accurately reflects why the secret war was hazardous for our troops and so deadly for the enemy. Major General John K. Singlaub (U. S. Army Ret.) --Amazon, Hard Cover Review

Black Ops told with the terrifying clarity that only one who was there can tell it. W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV --Amazon, Hard Cover Review

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