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First In, Last Out: An American Paratrooper in Vietnam with the 101st and Vietnamese Airborne

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A Vietnam veteran recounts his experience through two tours of duty—early in the conflict and then in its final stages.

Fresh out of West Point, John Howard arrived for his first tour in Vietnam in 1965, the first full year of escalation when U.S. troop levels increased dramatically, from 23,000 to 184,000. When Howard returned for a second tour in 1972, troop strength stood at 24,000 and would dwindle to a mere fifty the following year. He thus participated in the very early and very late s...