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Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s imagination. In this searing, inspiring memoir, Black recounts how he devoted himself, body and soul, to his proud service as an elite U. S. Army Ranger in Korea and Vietnam—and what those years have taught him about himself, his country, and our future.
Born at the start of the Great Depression, Black grew up on a farm at a time of great hardship but also tremendous national determination. He was a kid who toughened up fast, who learned the hard way to rely on his strength and his wits, who saw the country go to war with Germany and Japan and wept because he was too young to serve. As soon as the army would take him, Black enlisted. And as soon as he could muscle his way in, he became a Ranger.
As a private first class in the 82d Airborne Division headquarters, Black withstood the humiliations of enlisted service in the peacetime brown-shoe army. When the Korean War began, he volunteered and trained to be an Airborne Ranger. In Korea, this young warrior, his mind and body bursting with the lusts of adolescence, grew up fast, literally in the line of fire. In clean, vivid prose, Black describes the hell of giving his all for a country that lacked the political resolve to give its all to a war against the North Koreans and the Chinese.
If Korea was frustrating, Vietnam was maddening. The heart of this book is devoted to the years of action that Black saw in Long An Province starting in 1967. Black writes of the perplexity of collaborating with South Vietnamese officers whose culture and motives he never fully understood; he conjures up the sudden shock of the Tet Offensive and the daily horror of seeing fellow soldiers and innocent civilians slaughtered—sometimes by stray bullets, often by carelessness or treachery. Vietnam challenged everything Black had come to believe in and left him totally unprepared for the hostility he would face when he returned to a war-weary America.
Written with extraordinary candor and passion, A Ranger Born is the memoir of a man who dedicated the best of his life to everything that is great and enduring about America. At once intimate in its revelations and universal in its themes, it is a book with profound relevance to our own troubled time in history.
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #795503 in Books
- Published on: 2003-11-04
- Released on: 2003-11-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x .50" w x 4.30" l, .42 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 396 pages
From Publishers Weekly
There are two basic types of Vietnam War memoirs: embittered narratives written by those who see the war and their participation in it as a giant mistake, and gung-ho tales of derring-do by those who believe the conflict was a worthwhile endeavor. Black's effort falls squarely in the second category. A self-described "meat and potatoes guy," Black is a much-decorated, up-from-the-ranks retired army colonel who served honorably and well in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. His competently written memoir concentrates on his 1967-1968 Vietnam tour when he was a senior district adviser to the South Vietnamese Army in Long An Province southwest of Saigon. Black offers up a by-the-numbers account of his upbringing, his Korean War experience and his time in Vietnam, along with his ideas about why the American war effort floundered in Vietnam. He points accusatory fingers at "indecisive" American politicians for not allowing the U.S. military to wage all-out war against North Vietnam and at the American news media and antiwar movement for aiding and abetting the North Vietnamese and Vietcong. "Our own people were giving the enemy encouragement," Black complains. For many historians, these views (which are not uncommon among Black's peers) oversimplify matters. They do square, though, with a strain of patriotism in evidence since September 11.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Like many military memoirs, this book offers an insider's view of military life told with the hard-edged voice of a combat veteran. Black is a retired army colonel who served with distinction in both Korea and Vietnam. Here he describes military life and his various posts with the vivid, colorful language used by front-line soldiers, e.g., "Pusan had the smell of a giant latrine." He regales us with his time as an army ranger and how membership in that elite unit has shaped his life and career. What is lacking in his memoir is some theme to bridge the meanderings in his storytelling. Because Black writes with an aloof, almost arrogant tone, scarcely showing emotion, the reader will likely feel little sympathy with or connection to him. Whether these shortcomings are a result of writer, editor, or both, this memoir lacks the focus and clarity necessary to make it compelling. Recommended only for large military collections. Mike Miller, Dallas P.L
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Black, author of two histories of the U.S. Army Rangers, now tells his own story, vividly and well. Like many American soldiers of his generation, he grew up during World War II, but not in time to fight in it. His background was rural, outdoorsy, and self-reliant, and it led to fitness, familiarity with weapons, and the Army Reserve before his regular enlistment. He was in combat as a ranger in Korea, where the rangers served in divisional elite patrol and recon units, seeing close-quarters infantry combat of the most rugged sort. After taking a commission, he went, a lieutenant colonel, to Vietnam in 1968 as a senior advisor, a job that involved more diplomacy than combat leadership. He seems to have exhibited that diplomacy, not least in being able to tell the virtuous from the vice-ridden among his Vietnamese colleagues. He acquired a perspective that is seldom recorded, in that he descried the Vietnamese experience of the "Vietnam experience," which was longer and far bloodier than ours. Roland Green
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
A MUST for all miliary buffs
By Terry B. Roderick
While admitting I am a personal friend of Ranger Bob Black, and very fortunate to be so. I had the opportunity to see this work before it went to print. Let there be no mistake, Ranger Robert Black is RANGER through and through. He also happens to be the foremost and most learned Ranger historian alive today. His previous works are invaluable to all Ranger historians who search for Ranger history from WWII and Korea. He is a stickler for detail and very thorough. He is a member of the Ranger Hall of Fame at Fort Benning, Georgia. This review is about his latest work however and I want to return to that subject. I just want to let you know a bit about the author. He is a man's man and well respected among Rangers of all eras. Because of the short duration of the Korean War and the short life of these elite soldiers of the Airborne Ranger Companies of Korea, much has been forgotten about their service and sacrifices. Ranger Black's book, "A Ranger Born", revives these memories and educates many who never really knew of the many obstacles and terrible conditions these men fought in. He takes us on a journey through his young life to the man he is today. Through two wars, including his service in the Vietnam War. Once I started reading it, it was hard to put down and that is a true measure of a book, isn't it ?? I read a lot of military history books, fiction and non-fiction, and I would put this book up there with the good ones as easily readable and entertaining. It is quite informative too, for those interested in the inner workings of a military advisor to the ARVN Army. I'd like to thank you Bob for sharing your story and your memories. Rangers Lead the Way !! Terry B. Roderick Co. P (RANGER) 75th Inf. RVN , Past President, 75th Ranger Regiment Association (1998-2000)
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Great Reading
By Lynn J. Towne
Unlike the technical, detailed Ranger books written by Col. Black, this one is from a personal standpoint and draws you into the story from page one until the last word is read. The book starts with Col. Black as a child and the desire to be a Ranger is obvious; to what it takes to qualify for Ranger training; what it takes to endure the training and what drives a Ranger to stay a Ranger. A story about being an American in the war ravaged country of Korea and Viet Nam. You read about betrayal, unrequited love, the guts and glory of war; the survival of war, and at times with a sense of humor. You laugh, you cry. It grips your heart; it grips your soul, but most of all it makes you proud to be an American; proud to have men of his calibar fighting for your freedom and that of our Country.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Well Worth Reading
By Richard P. Fulton
Dear Readers,
To properly praise a book means putting it in context with one's own background and experiences. US Army Ranger Bob Black's new book, A RANGER BORN, talks so well about his experiences in both the Korean and the Vietnam Wars, and has served in so many ways as a vivid reminder of my own Asian experiences, first as a USAF airman assigned to Osan Air Base south of Seoul in 1966, and then to Vietnam in 1967 and 1968.
That first tour in Korea was 13 years after the signing of the Armistice Agreement, and conditions were still very rough, with the war remaining very much in evidence.
Then, still as a military journalist, I went to Vietnam for a couple of back to back tours in the period before and after Tet 1968, ranging from the Mekong Delta fan to the bunkers of Dong Ha, at the eastern fringe of Leatherneck Square. I spent time at many of the air bases as well as on the ground or in the air above such places as Hue, Khe Sanh, Pleiku, Trang Sup, and Tay Ninh.
They were years of so much memory -- of people, events, places, sights, sounds, smells; some things sad, others horrible, some joyful, even proud, others so painful that wiped away would be a blessing.
You need to know this background so you will understand how crisp and sure, how factual and descriptive I found Colonel Black's narrative. He is a writer who has been there, done that, and come away mostly intact; first as a Corporal in Korea, up front as a Ranger, carrying a .30 caliber Browning Automatic Rifle in combat; then as a middle aged field grade officer trying so hard as an advisor to beat the politics while simultaneously trying so hard to instill a seed of military survival in Vietnamese units lacking so much while serving in the most terrible of circumstances.
Bob Black has a steel trap memory combined with the heart of a warrior. Searching for the words to tell it like it was, he used both heart and mind well, drawing from the well of experience in ample measure. Reading his passages, you can smell the garlic and kimchi, taste the fish sauce, feel the grit on your neck and the dust in your eyes, see the tracers bounce in nights lit only by flare light, hear the crunches, thumps and stutters of weaponry, and catch more than a whiff of cordite on some very hot, very humid, long and headache filled days.
It is my assessment that the Colonel, a very skilled writer as his other works so amply attest, has achieved great success in this, his latest endeavor, and this new book has the texture and feel of a classic, in the vein of Platoon Leader, Company Commander or even -- and yes, I believe this -- that great novel that continues to teach so many truths and realities about the military profession, Once An Eagle.
I am not a Ranger, though I am blessed to have Ranger friends, but I shared close contact with the Ranger community at Dugway, Utah a few years back, and take it as the strongest article of military faith that Rangers do indeed lead the way for all the rest of us. Back in those days, in the mid-1980s, I was an Army civilian, the installation PAO, and was between tours as the CINC speech writer in Korea.
Outside of incoming, that speech writing task held twice in Korea was the toughest job I ever had. Working deep in the shadows for such great soldiers as Robert Sennewald, Bill Livsey, Lou Menetrey and Robert RisCassi, and under friendly, sometimes stern guidance of CSMs Bill Gates, Ralph Phillips, Roosvelt Martain and Sam Smith, meant learning all I could learn about the Korean War, while not ignoring the valuable lessons of Vietnam and so many other conflicts and experiences, then putting it in context with the modern defense of Korea.
In the messages these men gave to a multiplicity of audiences, including hostile ones, credibility was a given, accuracy a must. Leadership examples had to be finely drawn. Facts had to be on time and on target, and adjustment of the message shot group continually required team effort in the building of a presentation and great skill by the individual speaker in its giving.
Noting the locale and delicacy of the speakers' positions, failure of communication carried grave risks. Designing words of praise intermingled with words of warning required a hefty library of resource materials.
Were I still doing that job today, A RANGER BORN, Bob Black's memoir of Asian war, would have a prominent and forward leaning place in my workspace; the book's pages turned and bent, sentences highlighted, paragraphs marked in search of truth about war; so huge and so visceral, so hard to ignore and yet so hard to describe in meaningful and complete language.
In a pair of deadly, terrible wars, Bob Black was there. He was the kind of soldier who saw both conflicts for what they were, and minced no words in telling the tale. His thoughts are of value for those who served, and of equal use for those who today protect our freedom in new, strange and deadly struggles.
If, in the next decade, you only read one work about the hot campaigns of the cold war, make it Bob Black's A RANGER BORN.
Respectfully Submitted for Consideration,
Rick Fulton
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