Description
Book Synopsis As a linguist with the U.S. Navy Fleet Support Detachment in Da Nang, Herb Shippey was assigned to air reconnaissance during the Vietnam War. Flying with fellow spooks over the Gulf of Tonkin and Laos, his duty was to protect American aircraft and ships threatened by MiG 21 fighter jet activity. Shippey''s introspective memoir recounts dangerous missions aboard non-combat aircraft (EC-121 Warning Star, P-3 Orion, A-3 Sky Warrior), rocket attacks and typhoons, and the details of his service, some of them classified for forty years.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Entering the Navy and Recruit Training
- Chapter 2. Washington, D.C., and New York
- Chapter 3. Language Training
- Chapter 4. Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas
- Chapter 5. En Route to Vietnam
- Chapter 6. San Miguel, Philippines
- Chapter 7. Arrival in Da Nang
- Chapter 8. Standing Night Watch
- Chapter 9. Flight Duty
- Chapter 10. Flying Dangerously
- Chapter 11. Daily Life in Da Nang
- Chapter 12. Vignettes
- Chapter 13. Rocket Attacks
- Chapter 14. Typhoons
- Chapter 15. Stress
- Chapter 16. Men of the Fleet Support Detachment
- Chapter 17. Bennie Trips
- Chapter 18. SERE School
- Chapter 19. Return to the Philippines
- Chapter 20. Da Nang Again
- Chapter 21. Final Days in the Philippines
- Chapter 22. Return to the World
- Chapter 23. Fort Meade, Maryland
- Chapter 24. Fort Meade Continued
- Chapter 25. Home
- Epilogue
- Index
