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"Morning was always a welcome sight to us.  It meant two things. The first was that we were still alive. . . ."

In 1967, death was the constant companion of the Marines of Hotel Company, 2/5, as they patrolled the paddy dikes, mud, and mountains of the Arizona Territory southwest of Da Nang. But John Culbertson and most of the rest of Hotel Company were the same lean, fighting Marines who had survived the carnage of Operation Tuscaloosa. Hotel's grunts walked over the enemy, not around him.

In graphic terms, John Culbertson describes the daily, dangerous life of a soldier fighting in a country where the enemy was frequently indistinguishable from the allies, fought tenaciously, and thought nothing of using civilians as a shield. Though he was one of the top marksmen in 1st Marine Division Sniper School in Da Nang in March 1967--a class of just eighteen, chosen from the division's twenty thousand Marines--Culbertson knew that against the VC and the NVA, good training and experience could carry you just so far. But his company's mission was to find and engage the enemy, whatever the price. This riveting, bloody first-person account offers a stark testimony to the stuff U.S. Marines are made of.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001OERNO2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Presidio Press; 1st edition (December 25, 2008)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 25, 2008
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4049 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 290 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0804118701
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good reading
Review: It's a very good read. Very well written. Keeps your attention andgives you a real look into the life of our brave soldiers doing whatthey had to in an unpopular war.

Reviewer: Bear Brinkman
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Overall I liked the book
Review: Overall I liked the book. I should have read his other book first about Operation Tuscaloosa because he refers to that incident quite a bit.That being said I bought the book because I wanted to read about snipers. He never mentions doing any sniping, only going to the school and a short mention of his buddy from the school getting killed.I did enjoy his Marine lingo when he would use it as I haven't heard most of it since I got out in '75.John write an okay book and I will buy his others because I enjoy reading about The Corps in battle.Semper Fi John wherever you are from another jarhead VN Vet.

Reviewer: RYAN WILTZ
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: NOICE
Review: Really like this book. You should pick it up and read it as well. Take your mind on an adventure.

Reviewer: Robert L Kelley
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Title?
Review: The title of the book is misleading. Other than training to be a sniper, the content is of regular Marine tactics.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very good
Review: Another quality book from author. A entertaining yet tragic book, it shows the waste of war, so many people are the victims of so few who wouldn't think about getting their hands dirty unlike the author who went and gave his all an then some more.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: a walk in their shadows
Review: Any book that can make me feel as if I almost knew what it was like, the hardships and extremes of military life, the bluntness of some and how the men travelled each day to take care of business, and themselves. I certainly dont rate this book as extreme, or a glorifying anything other than what the guys did, and how they survived. I sit here today wondering how i would have handled some of those things, yet gratefull I dont have to. Well written for me, and I can well recommend this title above a number of othes. Lest we forget.

Reviewer: Richard Edward Blazek
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A sniper in the arizona
Review: The author tells it like it was. You can't help but admire what these young men endured. The boredom, adrenaline highs, the heat and the loss of their youth. The book was somewhat repetitive and a bit longer than necessary. I liked the sniper training but too much boring detail. Character development was good enough to see the mens souls.

Reviewer: Charles Halm
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Sniper in the Arizona
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book since I am a Marine veteran who served with the 4th Battalion, 13th Marine Regiment at An Hoa Combat Base in 1969. I have not met John Culbertson but I understand that he lives in Oklahoma City where I also live.It was refreshing to read about John's experiences particularly since we were stationed at the same Combat Base. I arrived there at about the same time that he left there. He described all the same places that I also had been.I purchased two additional copies of this book to share with fellow Marines who also served in Vietnam.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Again a true story that highlights the true cruel scary face of war

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: a good contrast into the life of a marine from stateside USA to a complete ne w world

Reviewer: jim
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This in my opinion is a very good account of what life must have been like in the marines in Vietnam,really worth a read.

Reviewer: DAVID HOCKEY
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: OK non-fiction

Reviewer: Blanch Fontaine
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Although he trains as a sniper, the author's single use of a sniper rifle is in accidentally shooting a group of Vietnamese prisoners of war. He at no point in the book undertakes duty as a sniper, making the book's title a little misleading.The rest of this story is taken up by the author's love of the American Marine Corps; his criticism of officers' tactics and repeated assertion that the marines are the best trained military service in the world. This does not make for particularly interesting reading and there are countless grunt stories from the American war in Vietnam that are both more eventful and better told.