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Summary: Your My Personal Hero Mr. Acre
Review: Mr Acre: I hope you see this. This is my 2nd review since last summer! After twice reading your book, you are and will always be my hero. I was between 10 and 12 at the time you were in SE ASIA. I cant tell you how proud and honored I am to know that there were "once" real men like you that so cared about giving of yourself for America. And the sacrifices endured by all SOG men. I wish I could be half the man you are. This book is tops with John Plasters Sog books! a must read many times over! Please write more books Mr Acre.I wish the men I know and work with were "true men", men that always worked together as a team"SOG" and cared so much so that I may be here and well today in a free and democratic society.Your my hero always! MR. ACRE. You, and all the brave warriors of SOG Sincerely, Tony Pache, Jr.
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Summary: Realistic and Honest
Review: Mr. Acre has turned in a fine sitrep. He doesn't hide his own fear, and doesn't exaggerate his bravery, or anybody else's. A lot of other accounts, especially of Special Operations, tend to paint a picture of seamless professionalism by author and team; when something goes wrong, it's somebody else's mistake that sent things haywire. Not here: it seems even Mr. Acre made some mistakes, teammates got sloppy, and some were so bad nobody would go outside the wire with them. Not all the sergeants were great, not all the officers were glory-hungry losers (the officers are mostly invisible). Not all the firefights were won.What this means is you get a good feeling that the bravery and the unit esprit and the expertise that he does tell you about is real, that it did happen that way that time, and special training and end-of-the-string missions can create extraordinary soldiers. You want to hope that they all got home with it intact. Mr. Acre seems to have managed it.
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Summary: Excellant Read
Review: Mr. Arce does a fine job explaining what it was like to run highly classified reconnaissace operations into "denied"& neutral" Cambodia. The author quit college in 1968 and enlisted in the US Army, completed Special Forces training and by age twenty he was voluntarily assigned to MACVSOG-Command & Control South. This was a different kind of "dropping out and tuning in". Mr. Acre's book is a no bars hold account of what it was like to run recon across the fence into Cambodia, complete with the Special Forces style debauchery that occurred when he and his fellow SFer's were relaxing between missions. I really enjoyed this book because of its honesty, humor, and realism; the events are told in the way that they happened with no petty political-correctness cover-ups. Being able to read about MACVSOG is very interesting because it gives the reader a glimpse of how US clandestine operations are performed at ground level. This is the real-deal, you will not be dissapointed.
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Summary: awe-inspiring and fascinating
Review: The book chronicles the stories of an elite group of young soldiers who served their country in the Viet Nam conflict. They performed top secret reconnaissance missions deep into enemy sanctuaries, often paying with their blood and their lives. This book is a brutally honest account of war which is both awe-inspiring and fascinating. Eddie Helfand (former 'green beret' Viet Nam veteran who served at CCS)
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Summary: attention holding, no holds barred, historical, truthful
Review: This author relates the happenings of an elite group of special forces soldiers, without sugar coating the ugliness of war, nor over emphasizing the heroic deeds that occured regularly by these guys performing their missions. The stories show the tentions that build up in the fighting situations, and what they did to relax, but never forget. Some will find it difficult to believe, yet, I know he and the men he worked with have many more historical reports, some even more intense and spellbinding, but all true. Once a person accomplishes missions such as these, he does not need to embellish events--- because retelling them is nothing, it was accomplishing them that was incerdible! I believe him to be accurate, I was there . Bill Coughlan
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Summary: An excellent book, by one who was there
Review: This book gives a snapshot of the Special Forces Vietnam experience by one who was there. No phony wanabee heroics, just the memoir of a SF Trooper doing the job he volunteered to do. The author shows the humor, the tragedy, and the comradeship that were all part of serving with Special Forces. Reading the stories about men I knew and had served with, told so well, brought back memories long forgotten. Jack Tobin, B55 Mike Force, 5th SFG, RVN, 69-70
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Summary: An excellent book, by one who was there
Review: This book gives a snapshot of the Special Forces Vietnam experience by one who was there. No phony wanabee heroics, just the memoir of a SF Trooper doing the job he volunteered to do. The author shows the humor, the tragedy, and the comradeship that were all part of serving with Special Forces. Reading the stories about men I knew and had served with, told so well, brought back memories long forgotten. Jack Tobin, B55 Mike Force, 5th SFG, RVN, 69-70
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Summary: Project Omega: Eye of the Beast
Review: This book was recommended to me, by a friend, who knows that I am interested in factual, down-to-earth experiences of the young people who fought in Vietnam. This book is extremely down-to-earth. Mr. Acre was one of those young people. I believe that's what makes it such easy reading. It not only portrays how those young men laid down their lives in combat, but also, their everyday experiences in a country they had never known. I was a 14 year old girl working on getting the dress code in my school changed, while Mr. Acre was fighting for lives in Vietnam. My mission seemed unimportant in comparison. My brother had just come home from Khe Sanh and didn't want to cause pain by sharing his experiences. I respected that. As I have gotten older, I want to try to understand or at least know what our brothers, friends and loved ones experienced, in most cases, at such an early age. So, I have tried to learn as much as I can concerning the real life experiences of such courageous men and women. This book will certainly peak your interest and leave you wanting to know more when you reach the end. I strongly encourage everyone to read this inspiring account of one young man's courage who could easily be one of your loved ones.
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Summary: Couldn't Put it Down
Review: This book was so honest and straight forward. It helped me so much to understand the thoughts, emotions and actions of the "Recon Man". John Plaster's book "SOG" was good too, as it helped me understand the more technical aspects of their military life but Mr. Acre's book was able to put a more "human face" to these incredibly heroic and dangerous missions. I really liked his stark and unassuming portrayal of life as a soldier in and out of the field.
Having had a relationship with a decorated MACSOG veteran I can only say this book was able to shed a sliver of light into his 30 plus years of tightly guarded and assume painful and suppressed memories. It is of great interest to me how some men can share the same or similar traumatic experiences and come back to live productive and fulfilling lives while others follow a self destructive path and turn to alcohol and drugs to medicate and suppress their memories.
Mr. Acre I hope you will write more accounts of your experiences in Nam. It is about time Americans come to appreciate all veterans for their sacrifices and and heroism in the line of duty but particularly to those men of MACSOG because they were never recognized or honored and so little is known about who they are and what they did for our country.
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Summary: Couldn't Put it Down
Review: This book was so honest and straight forward. It helped me so much to understand the thoughts, emotions and actions of the "Recon Man". John Plaster's book "SOG" was good too, as it helped me understand the more technical aspects of their military life but Mr. Acre's book was able to put a more "human face" to these incredibly heroic and dangerous missions. I really liked his stark and unassuming portrayal of life as a soldier in and out of the field.
Having had a relationship with a decorated MACSOG veteran I can only say this book was able to shed a sliver of light into his 30 plus years of tightly guarded and assume painful and suppressed memories. It is of great interest to me how some men can share the same or similar traumatic experiences and come back to live productive and fulfilling lives while others follow a self destructive path and turn to alcohol and drugs to medicate and suppress their memories.
Mr. Acre I hope you will write more accounts of your experiences in Nam. It is about time Americans come to appreciate all veterans for their sacrifices and and heroism in the line of duty but particularly to those men of MACSOG because they were never recognized or honored and so little is known about who they are and what they did for our country.
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