Dead Center, Ed Kugler
Dead Center, Ed Kugler
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Dead Center
A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

Author: Ed Kugler

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 12 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/09/2014


Synopsis

Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there—the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966.



As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts. To take advantage of that experience, he formed the Rogues, a five-sniper team that hunted in the Co Bi-Than Tan Valley. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and countersniper ambushes are fascinating.



In Dead Center, Kugler demonstrates the importance to a sniper of patience, marksmanship, bush skills, and guts—while underscoring exactly what a country demands of its youth when it sends them to war.

About Ed Kugler

A former Marine scout-sniper, Ed Kugler served two tours in Vietnam as a sniper and sergeant with the 4th Marines in I Corps. He is the recipient of two Purple Hearts and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He is the author of A Dozen Things I Learned About Life as a Marine Sniper in Vietnam. He lives with his wife and their family in Spring, Texas.


Reviews

Someone once said "war is hell." Kugler , a former Marine scout-sniper for two years, writes of his hell which was called Vietnam. He exposes the craziness of the people fighting the war and the handicapts of poor leadership. Dead Center exposes the nasty reality of war and should be read by today's......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

Kug's stories and details were good, but the epilogue alone was terrific. I haven't read many books about the Vietnam war, but this is definitely one that's worth reading.......more

Goodreads review by Steven

Ed Kugler's DEAD CENTER is a hell of a read from a man who's been there. Starting from his days growing up in a working class family in Ohio, we see Kugler become a Marine and become blooded in combat in the Dominican Republic. We then see him shift gears and deploy to Vietnam, where he volunteers to......more

Goodreads review by Audra

This gave me a new appreciation of what the military and Marines do. This helped me understand what our soldiers' go through during war that we can't fully comprehend unless we have been through it. It allowed me to realize why soldiers when home do not talk about what they have experienced. It gave......more