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Private John Fish

Gary Prisk — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:55:14 +0000

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 that, to this day, has never been stationed on American soil, and is currently headquartered in Italy. Fish is one of the few...

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Eisenhower in War and Peace’

Gary Prisk — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 20:10:00 +0000

D-Day’s on. Nothing can stop us now – Dwight D. Eisenhower Little can match the age-old romance of cavalry or the pictures that governed my father’s den. In 1952 Eddie Prisk — ‘The Major’ — enlisted my help, escorted me to his 1950 Chevrolet, handed me a bucket filled with ‘I Like Ike’ buttons, and we were off. Assigned ‘every single’ door in the Sheridan Park Naval Housing neighborhood of...

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Bringing Mulligan Home’

Gary Prisk — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 19:51:30 +0000

Saturday, March 16, 2013 – 20:09 Huntington News Network Reviewed by Gary R. Prisk Recreating a Marine Company’s past, searching for answers, the son of a combat veteran attempts to recover one of his father’s comrades. ‘Bringing Mulligan Home’ (Public Affairs, 318 pages, $26.99) is a well-crafted father-son quest: What happened to Herman Walter Mulligan, the dead Marine who haunted the life of...

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Those Who Have Borne the Battle’

Gary Prisk — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:06:26 +0000

Monday, May 14, 2012 – 17:21 Huntington News Network Reviewed by Gary R. Prisk He’s a trained, skilled general, but he has one weakness. He repeats his tactics—and that’s the way I’m going to get him.—Lieutenant General Bernard L. Montgomery after defeating Rommel’s Africa Korps at Alam Halfa Ridge, in eastern Libya, September 1941, weeks prior to the battle of El Alamein. As veterans continue to...

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘George Washington’s Military Genius’

Gary Prisk — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 20:02:17 +0000

Thursday, May 31, 2012 – 17:12 Huntington News Network Reviewed by Gary R. Prisk A congressman, a land owner, not in the least showy, a man keen to the whims of economic and political intrigue, General George Washington’s landed will was his reason acting in concert with America’s grand goals—independence and westerly expansion. Dave R. Palmer’s “George Washington’s Military Genius” (Regnery...

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Get Fat if You Can

Gary Prisk — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:43:42 +0000

503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Mar.-Apr. 2016 – Issue 66 Delta 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. Illuminated by a sense of isolation, memories worked in concert, jarring a man’s being from one halting sound to the nest. Capt.

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Does it matter where they came from?

Gary Prisk — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:20:42 +0000

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 carried was just a prop, foisted upon them by the Headquarters Company First Sergeant… “The bastard even made me carry ammunition.”...

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For Sergeant Ernest Asbury

Gary Prisk — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:26:54 +0000

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 up Hill 875… of years and years of asking himself how he could have gotten so far from his family… so far from his home.

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2/503d Photo of the Month ~ 1968

Gary Prisk — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 21:00:00 +0000

503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Nov.-Dec. 2018 – Issue 83 Captain 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, with a couple of his “Hill People” in background taking a needed break. His fellow officers good-naturedly called him “The Teenage...

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Chapter Thirty-Two, Stubbs

Gary Prisk — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:57:59 +0000

Morning brought three cloverleaf patrols and Leech Dick inspecting the speed bump on his hog. In time, a tracer would have grazed his pecker and shattered his radio. The veterans at the American Legion Hall would laugh on cue, demanding a picture to verify the account. “Captain, Uncle’s on the hook.” “Charlie Six, this is Five Yankee.” Uncle was stretching a serious tone, a cautious base with...

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