Six Silent Men - (101st Lrp Rangers) by Reynel Martinez (Paperback)

About the Book

Old timers called it the suicide unti. Whether conducting prisoner snatches, search and destroy missions, or hunting for the enemy's secret base, LRRPs depended on each other 110 percent. Author Reynel Martinez, a 101st LRRP Detachment veteran, takes readers into the livesr and battles of these extraordinary men.

Book Synopsis

"No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men." [pg. 13]

In 1965 nearly four hundred men were interviewed and only thirty-two selected for the infant LRRP Detachment of the lst Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Old-timers called it the suicide unit. Whether conducting prisoner snatches, search and destroy missions, or hunting for the enemy's secret base camps, LRRPs depended on one another 110 percent. One false step, one small mistake by one man could mean sudden death for all.

Author Reynel Martinez, himself a 101st LRRP Detachment veteran, takes us into the lives and battles of the extraordinary men for whom the brotherhood of war was and is an ever-present reality: the courage, the sacrifice, the sense of loss when one of your own dies. In the hills, valleys, and triple-canopy jungles, the ambushes, firefights, and copter crashes, LRRPs were among the best and bravest to fight in Vietnam.

About the Author

Reynel Martinez is a veteran of the 101st LRRP Detachment. He is the author of Six Silent Men, a military biography of six members of the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War.