Oct 11, 2018
Podcast 61, Introduction, is the actual introduction to the Reluctant Lieutenant book. It was written by G. Kurt Piehler, a military historian. Dr. Piehler provides an excellent review of the historical development of the military draft system into the Vietnam era as well as important demographics concerning the...
Oct 11, 2018
Podcast 60, Preface, is an account of the situation that caused Jerry to be forced into the army, why he wrote the Reluctant Lieutenant, his attempts to write it as factually as possible and his appreciation of those who assisted him.
Oct 10, 2018
Podcast 59, Epilogue, is an account of Jerry's primary assignment at the JFK Special Warfare Center, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, after completing infantry OCS in 1967. He provides a brief picture of his professional career after fulfilling his military obligation.
Oct 10, 2018
Podcast 58, Experienced Soldiers, is an account of Jerry's last few weeks of infantry OCS in June 1967. Jerry's wife joins him, he encounters lieutenants who have not received their commissions the OCS way and listens to a graduation speech.
Oct 10, 2018
Podcast 57, The Chipmunk, is an account of Jerry being assigned an impossible task to accomplish at the celebration party for achieving senior candidate status a month before graduating from infantry OCS in the late spring of 1967. No one knew if the mission could be accomplished until the last possible second.