Brothers in the Mekong Delta

Following two tours in Viet Nam in 1967 and 68, and a lengthy break in military service, Godfrey Garner rejoined and eventually retired from 20th Special Forces group in 2006. During his second period of military service with 2/20 SFG, he completed two military tours in Afghanistan. He has published more than fifty professional articles in Homeland Security Today, Journal of American Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Journal on issues relating to counterterrorism, mostly centering on Afghanistan. He is a permanent faculty professor at Mississippi College, as well as adjunct at Tulane University and Belhaven University.

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Acknowledgments

Preface: A Few Short Notes from Yesterday

Prologue

 1. First Breath

 2. Bonding: Rite of Passage

 3. Virginity Patrol: Move Out and Draw Fire

 4. The Wide End of the Funnel

 5. Kindergarten

 6. He Was Just Like Me

 7. Ghost Patrol

 8. A New Normal

 9. Learning to Be Violent

10. “We have to know we’re right”

11. Just Cops on the Beat

12. All’s Well If You Can See Past the Trees

13. Simple Little Spaces for Reflection

14. Things We Should Have Said

15. A Slightly Skewed Sort of Balance

16. An Everlasting Thanksgiving Memory

17. Tet: End of the Simple Push-Pull

18. Drums and Bugles

19. Post Tet: A New Ballgame

20. Anatomy of a Firefight

21. SEAL PBR Operations: Just Do It

22. Occasionally Out of the Bush

23. The Medicine Was Definitely Worse

24. A Most Well-known Monkey

25. The “Right” and the “Good”

26. A Strange Maturity

27. Clarity of Vision Reserved for One

28. Always Begin with “You Ain’t Gonna Believe This Shit”

29. Counterinsurgency: Two Beaux Wooing the Same Girl

30. So, What Do We Do Now?

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