PBR: SEA DADDY"" is the second in a series of three (possibly four) novels, which revolve around the PB R boats of Vietnam. During the Vietnam war, the Navy created a special river patrol unit using 31 foot long modified “pleasure craft”, design top float in the narrow waterways of the Mekong Delta. The men who participated in this special program . . . well, this is their story! Or, at least one of many! SEA DADDY . . . is a name which many sailors used (very derogatory) in reference to their first line supervisors The one thing that all service members looked forward to, was the “Freedom B ird”, the flight on which they would leave Vietnam and return home! What if . . . what if, the “Freedom B ird” never made it home? What of somehow, for some unknown reason, it crashed? How would the survivors make it home? The author Steve Mungie is a retired disabled combat veteran, who served in the PB R units of Vietnam, in 1968 and 1969. Though disabled, he has kept abreast of goings-on, in the military, assisting many fellow veterans with their military related problems. He spends his time writing novels and other related stories, as the urge hits.”
A wild and irreverant story about life on the Rivers of Vietnam, circa 1969, with the taste, flair and comedy that made M*A*S*H the story of the Korean era, famous. This fictional story is about a band of sailors, who inadvertantly stumble onto a conspiracy so wild and unbelievable, that they find themselves catapulted into a nightmare they are not sure how they will survive. They are forced by circumstances to not only lie to their commanders, and do what is probably very illegal, breaking more laws and regulations that are on the books, to solve the mystery of why their boats are being attacked by forces who seem to know more than they should about what they should not...as they desperately search for the answer...WHO or WHAT is FLOWERCHILD? Over three hundred pages of wild fun, lying, women chasing, drinking, fighting (both with fists and guns) that Vietnam probably ever saw, and all within less than a years time...and they had a lot of fun doing it...
PBR: SEA DADDY"" is the second in a series of three (possibly four) novels, which revolve around the PB R boats of Vietnam. During the Vietnam war, the Navy created a special river patrol unit using 31 foot long modified “pleasure craft”, design top float in the narrow waterways of the Mekong Delta. The men who participated in this special program . . . well, this is their story! Or, at least one of many! SEA DADDY . . . is a name which many sailors used (very derogatory) in reference to their first line supervisors The one thing that all service members looked forward to, was the “Freedom B ird”, the flight on which they would leave Vietnam and return home! What if . . . what if, the “Freedom B ird” never made it home? What of somehow, for some unknown reason, it crashed? How would the survivors make it home? The author Steve Mungie is a retired disabled combat veteran, who served in the PB R units of Vietnam, in 1968 and 1969. Though disabled, he has kept abreast of goings-on, in the military, assisting many fellow veterans with their military related problems. He spends his time writing novels and other related stories, as the urge hits.”
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