Title: Memoirs of a combat soldier? I think not.
Product review: On the jacket of the book Mr. Anderson is identified as a former S.F. sergeant. This may be possible. He has certainly heard a lot of war stories, enough to get some of the facts right. That is as far as it goes, however. As a veteran of SOG, his descriptions of operations in CCN are simply laughable. Locations are wildly out of sync. But these are to be expected from someone who obviously wasn't there. If Mr. Anderson was truly in S.F., I rather suspect it was as a clerk, cook, supply sergeant, or some other job where he could sit at the club and soak up the experiences of those who were there. My main objection, however, is in his descriptions of the hero and his friends. People might think these are accurate. SOG soldiers were just that, soldiers. Acting like these people do would get you killed, and if you survived, court-martialed and sent home. From an actual S.F. soldier, three tours in Vietnam, the last one in SOG. References provided upon request.
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