Did you and your buddies wear olive drab on your senior trip? Did you go to a foreign country, meet many strange new people, and try to kill them all? In the middle 1960s, the Selective Service drafted 3000 men per month into the military. Most were trained and sent to fight in Vietnam. Fate calls Mike and Dave, buddies since birth, into the draft. The pair travel to Fort Lewis, Washington State, for Basic Combat Training, and barely survive the Army’s meanest drill sergeant. 90% of soldiers trained as medics went to Vietnam; Mike and Dave were sent to Germany. With the attitude they will enjoy sixteen months in the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, in Schweinfurt, they soon find themselves in a private war with a gung ho platoon sergeant. The lifer hates draftees and works to make them miserable. They employ different tactics to survive, and both wonder if they will avoid serious discipline and make it back to The World with their sanity intact.Civilians will find the draftees’ adventures amusing; soldiers will see the truth and relive embarrassment and pain.
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