![]() During those years he saw the Army reborn from its post-Vietnam nadir to the outstanding force it became and remains today. After tours in Germany and Korea, he returned to Louisiana and civilian life where he began a 10 year career in government including four years as a senior official in the Pentagon during the Reagan administration. He just missed Vietnam, but found that life as a 2nd LT in an army broken by that war was not what he wanted. ![]() Every living male member of his family had served in the Army covering World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam, so it was a natural step for him to attend and graduate from West Point. Wayne Grant is a truly gifted writer, this book is the third following Longbow and Warbow, and thankfully the author has maintained the high standard of the. Like most southern boys of that era he saw the military as an honorable and adventurous career. ![]() Between chopping cotton, dove hunting and Little League ball he developed a love of great adventure stories like Call It Courage and Kidnapped. ![]() Wayne Grant grew up in a tiny cotton town in rural Louisiana where hunting, fishing and farming were a way of life. ![]()
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