Jack of All Trades: An American Advisor’s War in Vietnam, 1969-70

Maj. Ron Beckett had already served two tours in Vietnam when he received orders to return in April 1969. As the district senior advisor in the remote, rural Dinh Quan District of Long Khanh Province, he would face a demanding and dangerous assignment on the front lines of pacification.* A sometimes critical, sometimes humorous, always honest memoir of the American campaign to win Vietnamese hearts and minds* Details Beckett’s and his team’s efforts to support combat missions, gather intelligence, improve infrastructure, develop the local economy, and above all gain the trust of a people whose language they did not speak