From being issued an M16 rifle that jammed to being baptized in a blaze of fire on the front lines, he reveals what he learned about fighting the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Regular Army troops in the rice paddies and jungles from DaNang to the DMZ.

At nineteen years old, Goddard was a corporal leading squad sized patrols. Due to a twist of fate Goddard was at the very center of a bayonet assault by Golf Company on the NVA bunker complex during the battle at Phu Oc, near Con Thien, on September 21, 1967 where 31 Marines and Sailors were killed and 118 wounded in the action.

From boot camp and reconnaissance training to the killing fields of Vietnam, this is a detailed account of the hell that is war.