Call Sign Dracula, Joe Fair
Call Sign Dracula, Joe Fair
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Call Sign Dracula
My Tour with the Black Scarves April 1969 to March 1970

Author: Joe Fair

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 4 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/27/2018


Synopsis

Call Sign Dracula provides an outstanding, valuable and worthy in-depth look into the life of a US Army Infantry soldier serving with the famed 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) in Vietnam. It is a genuine, firsthand account of a one-year tour that shows how a soldier grew and matured from an awkward, bewildered, inexperienced, eighteen year-old country "bumpkin" from Kentucky, to a tough, battle hardened, fighting soldier.

You will laugh, cry and stand in awe at the true life experiences shared in this memoir. The awfulness of battle, fear beyond description, the sorrow and anguish of losing friends, extreme weariness, the dealing with the scalding sun, torrential rain, cold, heat, humidity, insects, and the daily effort just to maintain sanity were struggles faced virtually every day. And yet, there were the good times. There was the coming together to laugh, joke, and share stories from home. There was the warmth and compassion shown by men to each other in such an unreal environment. You will see where color, race or where you were from had no bearing on the tight-knit group of young men that was formed from the necessity to survive. What a "bunch" they were!BR>

. . . then the return to home and all the adjustments and struggles to once again fit into a world that was now strange and uncomfortable.BR>

Call Sign Dracula is an excellent and genuine memoir of an infantry soldier in the Vietnam War.

About Joe Fair

Joe Fair entered the US Army in September 1968. Joe served a tour of duty in Vietnam from April 1969 to March 1970 and returned to the US at Fort Meade, Maryland. He married Regnia Gabehart on July 18, 1970. He left the US Army in June 1971.

Joe joined the Ingersoll Rand Company in September 1971 and remained with the company until May 2011. He was the Human Resources Manager his last sixteen years. He had two careers going simultaneously as he joined the Kentucky Army National Guard in October 1974 serving with Bravo Battery and the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery and remained with the guard until he retired as a First Sergeant E-8 in May 1997. He served in Desert Shield and Desert Storm during the Gulf War from December 1990 to April 1991 with the guard unit.


Reviews

Good read As a Vietnam vet (artillrty) i can attest to the accuracy. I found the book interesting. Fortunately I was a 13B40 gun chief and didn't jump jungles and I am glad I didn't.......more

Goodreads review by Angel

This is an unfiltered narrative that flows like you are actually there in the jungles of the Vietnam War with the Black Scarves of the 1st Infantry Division. Joe is a real-life hero with two Bronze Stars along with two Air Medals and the Combat Infantry Badge. You see the bond of friendship forged in......more

Black Scarves Espirit de Corp Extremely informative and insightful! Written as only a combat soldier could have done it. As a veteran and healthcare worker with the VA, Mr. Fair's accounting gives me a closer look inside the minds of my Vietnam veterans. I am honored to have read this account of his......more

Goodreads review by Jerik

Exactly what it says it is The writer does not claim to be an author and let's you know upfront that this is to honor the men he fought with. That is what you get. A list of people and events that he came in contact with during his year in Vietnam. I appreciate his, and all of our soldiers' service,......more