Audiobook4 hours
Call Sign Dracula: My Tour with the Black Scarves April 1969 to March 1970
Written by Joe Fair
Narrated by David de Vries
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
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Call Sign Dracula provides an outstanding, valuable and worthy in-depth look into the life of a US Army Infantry soldier serving with the famed 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) in Vietnam. It is a genuine, firsthand account of a one-year tour that shows how a soldier grew and matured from an awkward, bewildered, inexperienced, eighteen year-old country "bumpkin" from Kentucky, to a tough, battle hardened, fighting soldier.
You will laugh, cry and stand in awe at the true life experiences shared in this memoir. The awfulness of battle, fear beyond description, the sorrow and anguish of losing friends, extreme weariness, the dealing with the scalding sun, torrential rain, cold, heat, humidity, insects, and the daily effort just to maintain sanity were struggles faced virtually every day. And yet, there were the good times. There was the coming together to laugh, joke, and share stories from home. There was the warmth and compassion shown by men to each other in such an unreal environment. You will see where color, race or where you were from had no bearing on the tight-knit group of young men that was formed from the necessity to survive. What a "bunch" they were!BR>
. . . then the return to home and all the adjustments and struggles to once again fit into a world that was now strange and uncomfortable.BR>
Call Sign Dracula is an excellent and genuine memoir of an infantry soldier in the Vietnam War.
You will laugh, cry and stand in awe at the true life experiences shared in this memoir. The awfulness of battle, fear beyond description, the sorrow and anguish of losing friends, extreme weariness, the dealing with the scalding sun, torrential rain, cold, heat, humidity, insects, and the daily effort just to maintain sanity were struggles faced virtually every day. And yet, there were the good times. There was the coming together to laugh, joke, and share stories from home. There was the warmth and compassion shown by men to each other in such an unreal environment. You will see where color, race or where you were from had no bearing on the tight-knit group of young men that was formed from the necessity to survive. What a "bunch" they were!BR>
. . . then the return to home and all the adjustments and struggles to once again fit into a world that was now strange and uncomfortable.BR>
Call Sign Dracula is an excellent and genuine memoir of an infantry soldier in the Vietnam War.
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Reviews for Call Sign Dracula
Rating: 4.595744680851064 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
47 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was an easy to follow, Fantastic story!! Well written and narrated!!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5"Forrest Gump observes the wonders of Vietnam" or "Vietnam for Dummies."
Amusing listen of how Vietnam seems to a boy, a child really. The book is more a string of observations bouncing from one thing to another than a well written story. It's really more like a book written by thr author for himself, trying to make up for the things he did or didn't do in Vietnam and the brothers in arms he lost.
If this is your absolute first book/audiobook on Vietnam, then it's okay, but if you have some knowledge of the topic, then the repetition of certain abbreviations (LZ, RTO rtc.) might get onnyour nerves. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5"Call Sign Dracula" by Joe Fair tells the story of a young, scared teenage 'country bumpkin' as he refers to himself, who becomes a soldier and then travels half way around the world to fight in Vietnam - an unpopular war. As a youngster, he had secretly hoped to one day be a part of the Big Red One, a well known and brave group, and gets what he wished for. Joe is assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment - the Black Scarves who operate in III and IV Corps between Saigon and the Cambodian border. The author uses a unique style in this book where each chapter is a summary of events that occurs during a specific month in his tour of duty - much like a journal. Mr. Fair also pays homage to those troops he served with while in Vietnam, listing them by name as they come into and leave his life - providing a description of the person when the name is either unknown or forgotten.Readers will follow the author during his acclimation to war and witness his transition from a scared, naive and inexperienced eighteen year old soldier into a skilled, savvy leader within the course of a year. The author shares his memories, both good and bad. I sometimes found myself laughing out loud at some of the antics he and his fellow soldiers pulled. Joe doesn't pull any punches and tells it like it was...when friends die, it is very hard to keep a stiff upper lip and continue to function as if nothing happened. He also shows us that the military has both good and bad leaders within its ranks, errors in judgement often resulted in the death of many innocent people.I was in Vietnam a year after the author and assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, our area of operations was shared with the Big Red One and I remember humping through many of the same areas that are mentioned in Joe's memoirs. The life of a grunt is difficult, indeed, "Call Sign Dracula" will educate civilians - infantry veterans will relate. Great job Mr. Fair! Thank you for your service and Welcome Home!John Podlaski, authorCherries - A Vietnam War Novel