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In January 1969, Lt. Col. David H. Hackworth began his second Vietnam tour, transforming the demoralized 4/39th battalion into the legendary Hardcore Recondos.

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In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the US Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary.

David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th—a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army's highest casualty rate and considered its worst fighting battalion. Hackworth's hard-nosed, inventive and inspired leadership quickly turned the 4/39th into Vietnam's valiant and ferocious Hardcore Recondos.

Drawing on interviews with soldiers from the Hardcore Battalion conducted over the past decade by his partner and coauthor, Eilhys England, Hackworth takes readers along on their sniper missions, ambush actions, helicopter strikes and inside the quagmire of command politics. With Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, Hackworth places the brotherhood of the 4/39th into the pantheon of our nation's most heroic warriors.

Biografie

Colonel David H. Hackworth served in the military for twenty-five years and received 110 medals for his service. He is the author of About Face, Hazardous Duty, The Price of Honor, and Steel My Soldiers’ Hearts. He died in 2005.

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Contents

PROLOGUE

Debt of Honor

ONE

9th Infantry Division Headquarters, Dong Tam, Vietnam, 15 January 1969

TWO

Fire Support Base Dizzy, Dinh Tuong, 31 January 1969

THREE

Fire Support Base Dizzy, Dinh Tuong, 01 February 1969

FOUR

Fire Support Base Dizzy, Dinh Tuong, 04 February 1969

FIVE

My Dien, Plain of Reeds, 04 February 1969

SIX

Fire Support Base Moore, 19 February 1969

SEVEN

Southwest of Fire Support Base Moore, 26 February 1969

EIGHT

On Toward Danger, 01 March 1969

NINE

Fire Support Base Danger, 11 March 1969

TEN

Co Co Canal, 13 March 1969

ELEVEN

Sniper Control Center, 15 March 1969

TWELVE

Thanh Hung, 23 March 1969

THIRTEEN

Kien Phong Province, 25 March 1969

FOURTEEN

Kien Phong Province, 25 March 1969

FIFTEEN

Dong Tam, 25 March 1969

SIXTEEN

Fire Support Base Danger, 05 April 1969

SEVENTEEN

Steam ¹n¹ Cream, Dong Tam, April 1969

EIGHTEEN

Giao Duc General Hospital

NINETEEN

Fire Support Base Danger, 13 April 1969

TWENTY

Fire Support Base Danger, 28 April 1969

TWENTY-ONE

Dong Tam, 02 May 1969

TWENTY-TWO

Cai Be, 06 May 1969

TWENTY-THREE

Fire Support Base Danger, 18 May 1969

TWENTY-FOUR

Five Klicks North of Danger, 22 May 1969

TWENTY-FIVE

Fire Support Base Danger, 25 May 1969

EPILOGUE

Greenwich, Connecticut, 11 September 2001

AFTERWORDS

The Weakest Link

GLOSSARY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

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