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 Robert Chapin - The Sergeant & The Chevrons.
A young 20 year old recruit cannot escape the grueling 10-12 hour day of peeling potatoes in Vietnam while awaiting assignment in a processing center.... Lire la suite
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Résumé

A young 20 year old recruit cannot escape the grueling 10-12 hour day of peeling potatoes in Vietnam while awaiting assignment in a processing center. Following two days of back breaking potato peeling he decides to fake sick call and as a result purchases metal sergeant pins for his collar. Noticed by the duty sergeant he is called forward only to learn they are on upside down. No penalty!For two consecutive days the duty sergeant indiscriminately sweeps his hand over the left side of the 200 man formation and the right side and sends them to their respective assignments.
Following a painful second day of working in the mess hall, the young man fakes sick call and convinces a doctor to allow him rest for the day. When he awakens from a much needed four hour sleep he walks into a tailor shop operated by the Vietnamese and purchases two metal sergeant chevrons to be affixed to his collar. With the young soldier now stangding in formation wearing his newly acquired rank, the duty sergeant notices him and calls him up to the podium where the old timer whispers that he has the chevrons on "upside down" properly corrects them and allows the fake sergeant back to formation where he is eventually selected for the ice water detail for the day - thus avoiding the grueling 10 hour back breaking day in the mess hall.
True story! Nice read.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    14/08/2011
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-1-4661-4912-0
  • EAN
    9781466149120
  • Format
    ePub
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Protection num.
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Biographie de Robert Chapin

No stranger to writing, acting and singing, in 2006, Bob was chosen to play Charles Ryan in the Kent Brown Summer Love series "ARE WE THERE YET?" A summer theatre production by The Falls Run Players of Fredericksburg, Virginia. This was Bob's first acting role and his performance earned him the best actor's award for 2006. A hidden talent also become apparent when Bob was selected to sing John Travolta's Summer Nights from the smash hit "Grease".
He is also a member of The First Baptist Church of Bonita Springs, FL where he has been actively involved in the choir for the past 6 years - and his tenor voice has allowed him to produce over a half dozen Christian songs by Randy TravisFollowing an impressive career with U. S. Airways, Bob retired in 2000 and has devoted much of his time to producing ORPHANS OF THE MOURNING, his first novel about a soldier in Vietnam who eventually becomes the first Vietnam veteran President of The United States.
This book is currently available in the e-book format from Barnes & Noble. Bob was thrust into the nationwide scene in 1983 with his nationally acclaimed Vietnam poster poem The Wall, a statement about the emotional pain and anger of Vietnam - frrlings and sentiments he was not permitted to express while in uniform, but once discharged, a trip to The Wall evoked his deep personal feelings. The Wall was displayed in The White House in 1983 and as a result received instant success when President Ronald Reagan personally honored Bob for his contribution to all Vietnam Veterans.
To date, tens of thousands of copies have been sold. Bob has also recently finished his second novel, MURDER IN OGUNQUIT a mystery which takes place in the small New England coastal town of Ogunquit, Maine known as "A Beautiful Place By The Sea". In addition to his full length novels, Bob is offering a series of his "folksy" down to earth short stories at no charge for your enjoyment here on Smashwords, and it is the author's desire that you will consider purchasing his novels after a brief sampling.
Prior to his assignment in Vietnam in 1967, Bob served 16 months in Frankfurt Germany as a civilian with the U. S. Army's prestigious unit; The 513th Military Intelligence Group as a Top Secret CryptographerIn Vietnam he was assigned to the First Cavalry Division (Airmobile), 13th Signal Battalion and was awarded The Purple Heart for wounds received in action in additi...

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