Private John Fish

Private John Fish

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...
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Eisenhower in War and Peace’

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Eisenhower in War and Peace’

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...
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Bringing Mulligan Home’

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Bringing Mulligan Home’

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...
Get Fat if You Can

Get Fat if You Can

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....
Does it matter where they came from?

Does it matter where they came from?

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...
For Sergeant Ernest Asbury

For Sergeant Ernest Asbury

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...
2/503d Photo of the Month ~ 1968

2/503d Photo of the Month ~ 1968

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,...
Chapter Thirty-Two, Stubbs

Chapter Thirty-Two, Stubbs

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...