Quang Tri Cadence

<p> Having flunked out of college in the fall of 1965, the author enlisted in the U.S. Army. After basic training he was assigned to Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, an institution dedicated to the manufacture of the commodity the wartime army most quickly expends--rifle platoon leaders.</p><p> In June of 1968, he found himself leading a rifle platoon in D Company 2/5th, First Cavalry Division. <I>Quang Tri Cadence</I> draws upon the original maps