![]() No one's happy to see them when they get there. They're both assigned to the Alpha Company with another guy named Jenkins, and are taken to Chu Lai. His medical profile isn't on file at all. ![]() At least, not when it comes to his injury. Know who's not watching Perry's back? The actual army. They do agree to watch each other's backs, but they exchange spit, not blood. Gates, who goes by Peewee, bonds with Perry about both being from cities, and also about how neither of them wants to cut himself to swear a blood oath with other black men. He expects to be put behind a desk somewhere.įrom Japan, they fly to Vietnam, and the nurses are separated from the soldiers. Perry's not too worried, because he has a leg injury from playing basketball. Nearby, a guy named Gates keeps making jokes about how the Vietcong-the enemy-had better be ready for him. Perry, the main character, sits with a woman named Judy who's going to Vietnam to be a war nurse. ![]() The whole thing starts on an airplane from Anchorage, Alaska to Japan. ![]() The guys in Perry's platoon kill a lot of time on their base, or "hooch," playing checkers and messing with each other, but when they leave the base for a mission, that's when it gets real. Our main character, Richard Perry, describes war as "Hours of boredom, seconds of terror," (11.24) and that might as well describe the book. ![]() You ready for some darkness of the grisly, war-is-horror variety? We hope so, because this book is full of that kind of thing. ![]()
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