Keeping the Big Guns Firing

By Patrick Goodrow

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has either served or wondered what it was like to serve overseas during a controversial military action. - Cheryl Thompson, Dog-Eared Reviews

Keeping the Big Guns Firing by Patrick Goodrow details some of the experiences of the behind-the-lines troopers who provided the Grunt with much needed support. - Ann Neville for Readers' Favorite

This is a well written story of one man’s experience with the U.S. Marine Corps during two tours in Vietnam during the latter part of the 1960’s. The man is a staff sergeant with an Ordinance Maintenance Company charged with keeping the artillery – the big guns, firing. Not an easy thing to do, nor a safe one. The enemy was always quick to dispatch a Marine at his work; a heavy weapon quick to dispatch an unfamiliar technician, and an occasional officer quick to dispatch a subordinate’s career to better his own. This is an honest book about men at war doing an unglamorous but dangerous job during a war without clear definition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HPC Global
• Release date: Jul 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781933909639