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    Vietnam: Reflections of an Interrogator
    Vietnam: Reflections of an Interrogator
    Vietnam: Reflections of an Interrogator
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    Vietnam: Reflections of an Interrogator

    By Donald H Sullivan

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    The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a GI who served as a translator/interrogator with Psychological Operations while in Vietnam during the war. The book tells of his experiences and his thoughts on the war.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDonald H Sullivan
    Release dateJan 27, 2013
    ISBN9781301358731
    Vietnam: Reflections of an Interrogator
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    Donald H Sullivan

    I'm a native Floridian, retired from the US Army, I started writing in the army, mostly training and tech manuals. Boring stuff, but it whetted my interest in writing. I've written sci-fi, thrillers, mysteries, humor, fantasies, horror, and more. I'm now living in NC. While in the army, I served in air defense artillery, military intelligence, and psychological operations. I also worked in Federal Civil Service as a quality assurance specialist, ammunition surveillance. I love writing, reading, most kinds of music, and animals--especially dogs.

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      Vietnam - Donald H Sullivan

      Vietnam: Reflections of an Interrogator

      Donald H Sullivan

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 Donald H Sullivan

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      Revised edition. Formerly published under the title, Vietnam: From a GI's Perspective

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      To all who served in Vietnam

      in the

      6th PSYOP Bn. (Saigon)

      and the

      246th PSYOP Co. (Bien Hoa)

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Introduction

      A Little Background

      Why Were We There?

      My Vietnam Experience

      Saigon

      The VC and the NVA

      The Vietnamese People

      My Experience As a Translator/Interrogator

      Vietnam vs World War II

      Thoughts About Wars in General

      In Conclusion

      Introduction

      This book, unlike most books about Vietnam, is not about combat experiences. It primarily tells of my experiences as an interrogator/translator in Vietnam, and about my observations of the Vietnamese people, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN,) the Viet Cong (VC,) the North Vietnamese Army (NVA,) and our own troops.

      Ask ten Vietnam vets to describe what Vietnam was like and you would likely get ten different stories. It would depend on the unit he served in, the location he was in, and the time that he was there. Also, it's possible that you could ask two vets who served in the same unit and were there at the same time and you might get different versions of what it was like, in the same way that several people can witness a crime and each give a different description of the perpetrator.

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      My account of what it was like is based on my own experiences there, what I heard from other vets while in Vietnam, and my conversations with other vets here in the states.

      I spent two tours in Vietnam for a total of nineteen months. The time I spent there was divided about evenly between Saigon and Bien Hoa. (It was tour then; the term now is deployment.) My first tour, in February 1965, doesn't really count as a tour. I was assigned to MACV as an advisor, but was cut short after a few weeks. I was medivaced out after an emergency operation to close a perforated ulcer. Not very heroic.

      In my second tour I was an interrogator/translator in a Psyop (Psychological Operations) unit, so I experienced many things in Vietnam that the average vet did not. However, I was not unique in that regard. GIs in different kinds of units usually experienced different kinds of situations.

      I never served with a combat unit while in Vietnam, and therefore for combat-related accounts in this book I had to depend on what I heard from troops who were in combat units. I'm now retired and living in Fayetteville, NC, which is adjacent to Fort Bragg, so I meet and

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