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    A TET WELCOME TO VIETNAM

    Nov 28, 2019 4 minutes

    Twenty-five-year-old Captain Flint Whitlock of suburban Chicago, Illinois, graduated from the University of Illinois in 1964 with an officer’s commission in the US Army. After training on the Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missile system and completing parachute training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he was stationed in West Germany. Soon afterward he transferred to the Quartermaster Corps and received orders for Vietnam. Arriving at the replacement depot at Bien Hoa airbase, 20 miles northeast of Saigon, on 29 January 1968, Captain Whitlock experienced the opening hours of the Tet Offensive.

    After discharge from the army in 1970, Whitlock pursued a long and critically acclaimed career as an author and lecturer. He has written numerous books

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