Eyes of the Eagle, Gary A. Linderer
Eyes of the Eagle, Gary A. Linderer
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Eyes of the Eagle
F Company LRPs in Vietnam, 1968

Author: Gary A. Linderer

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/21/2020


Synopsis

In the 101st Airborne, if you cared enough to send the very best, you sent The Howlers.

Gary Linderer volunteered for the Army, then volunteered for Airborne training. When he reached Vietnam in 1968, he was assigned to the famous "Screaming Eagles," the 101st Airborne Division. Once there, he volunteered for training and duty with F Company 58th Inf, the Long Range Patrol company that was "the Eyes of the Eagle."

F Company pulled reconnaissance missions and ambushes, and Linderer recounts night insertions into enemy territory, patrols against NVA antiaircraft emplacements and rocket-launching facilities, the fragging of an unpopular company commander, and one of the bravest demonstrations of courage under fire that has ever been described. The Eyes of the Eagle is an accurate, exciting look at the recon soldier's war. There are none better.

About Gary A. Linderer

Gary Linderer is the publisher of Behind the Lines, a magazine that specializes in US military special operations. He served in Vietnam with the LRPs of the 101st Airborne Division, earning two Silver Stars, the Bronze Star with V device (for valor), the Army Commendation Medal with V device, and two Purple Hearts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on January 20, 2012

When my brother Scott came home on leave once, he brought a copy of "Eyes Behind the Lines" by Gary Linderer and told me it was a good, realistic idea of what life in the military could be like. I devoured that book (I must have been 14 or 15), unaware that it was the second in a series. I bought my......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on August 12, 2010

This was not bad for a autobiography of a LRP, Long Range Patrol, soldier's account of his time in Vietnam during 68. The book was built from hundreds of letters he sent home to his wife and is surprisingly detailed and accurate. It was part 1 of a 3 part book and am interested in continuing to see......more

Goodreads review by Gene on December 15, 2022

I am really really sorry I read this book! Not because it wasn’t a well written recount of what Mr. Linderer went through, or informative of the Vietnam War. No, it was because of his views of what he so disparagingly calls REMFs. The front line combat soldiers were obviously most in danger, most wo......more

Goodreads review by Ken on March 09, 2021

I have read better. I have an interest in the LRPs because they were my generation in the time when we all served (well almost all of us). We all had friends or family that died there. It made it a lot more real than later wars. These guys were incredible. That said, the writing is a bit disjointed......more

Goodreads review by Andy Herzfeld on May 27, 2021

This is a very well written account of a LRP team member in Vietnam by Linderer. He does an excellent job describing the details of Army life in the field and forward of the lines in Indian country. You get a true sense of the high wire act our men had to walk to survive in the unforgiving jungle. I......more