by Gary Prisk | Sep 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Private John Fish, also known as Guffey in the award-winning novel by Gary Prisk, titled Digger Dogface Brownjob Grunt, fought Vietnam’s War with 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry, part of the fabled 173rd Airborne Brigade. A brigade...
by Gary Prisk | Sep 2, 2019 | Reading List
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Eisenhower in War and Peace’:For Ike the First Biography That Talks Across the Havoc of WarReviewed by Gary R. PriskD-Day’s on. Nothing can stop us now– Dwight D. EisenhowerLittle can match the age-old romance of cavalry or the pictures...
by Gary Prisk | Aug 22, 2019 | Reading List
Reading List/ReviewsBOOK REVIEW: ‘Bringing Mulligan Home’:For Veterans a Route-Map; For Their Families a ReasoningSaturday, March 16, 2013 – 20:09Huntington News NetworkReviewed by Gary R. Prisk Recreating a Marine Company’s past, searching for...
by Gary Prisk | Aug 7, 2019 | Reading List
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Those Who Have Borne the Battle’: For Veterans a Hashing of Persistent QuestionsMonday, May 14, 2012 – 17:21Huntington News NetworkReviewed by Gary R. PriskHe’s a trained, skilled general, but he has one weakness. He repeats his...
by Gary Prisk | Jul 31, 2019 | Reading List
BOOK REVIEW: ‘George Washington’s Military Genius’:For America’s General, it was Peg Mullen’s Beefsteak HouseThursday, May 31, 2012 – 17:12Huntington News NetworkReviewed by Gary R. PriskA congressman, a land owner, not in the least...
by Gary Prisk | Jul 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Mar.-Apr. 2016 – Issue 66Delta Company Night Laager The Tiger Mountains, 2340 Hours.From converging streams of green tracers to napalm on a cloud-filled morning, nothing generated fear like a search-and-destroy mission under a Ranger moon....
by Gary Prisk | Jun 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Does it matter where they came from? Medics, I mean. They were an odd lot, seemingly detached from the realities of infantry combat in Vietnam, in 1968, in the Central Highlands, and coastal rice paddies. Some professed to be non-combatants, claiming the weapon they...
by Gary Prisk | Jun 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
My friend Ernest Asbury died a few weeks ago in his bunker in Joshua Tree, California… his bride Marjorie was at the store. Sergeant Asbury died of a broken heart… A heart minced by years and years of recall… of years and years of wondering why the hell he ever walked...
by Gary Prisk | Dec 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Nov.-Dec. 2018 – Issue 83Captain Gary Prisk (Colonel Ret), seen here in center of photo in 1968, when he served as CO (C/D/2/503), enjoying coffee with SFC Oscar Cruz, just north of the Tiger Mountains during a brief respite from battle,...
by Gary Prisk | Dec 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Nov.-Dec. 2018 – Issue 83Excerpts from DIGGER DOGFACE BROWNJOB GRUNTBy Gary Prisk, “Cap” (Col. Ret.), CO C/D/2/503, RVNRice Paddies North of Landing Zone EnglishMorning brought three cloverleaf patrols and Leech Dick inspecting the speed...
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