A Sniper in the Arizona: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967

The photos in the book were missing and the pages were marked up.

This is an excellent portrayal of combat in Vietnam.

Overall I liked the book. I should have read his other book first about Operation Tuscaloosa because he refers to that incident quite a bit.That being said I bought the book because I wanted to read about snipers. He never mentions doing any sniping, only going to the school and a short mention of his buddy from the school getting killed.I did enjoy his Marine lingo when he would use it as I haven't heard most of it since I got out in '75.John write an okay book and I will buy his others because I enjoy reading about The Corps in battle.Semper Fi John wherever you are from another jarhead VN Vet.

This book is an outstanding record of the author’s Vietnam War service.The beneficial & rewarding aspects of his writing for the reader, is his ability to analyse & describe moment by moment situations. These include his personal feelings, the jungle environment , weather changes, contacts & fire-fights etc.One is drawn into his situations, & can almost feel & smell the moment. One feels being there, beside him.We should be grateful that he, unlike many others, survived his tour of duty, recorded his experiences & possessed the marvellous ability & courage to write the book.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book since I am a Marine veteran who served with the 4th Battalion, 13th Marine Regiment at An Hoa Combat Base in 1969. I have not met John Culbertson but I understand that he lives in Oklahoma City where I also live.It was refreshing to read about John's experiences particularly since we were stationed at the same Combat Base. I arrived there at about the same time that he left there. He described all the same places that I also had been.I purchased two additional copies of this book to share with fellow Marines who also served in Vietnam.

The author tells it like it was. You can't help but admire what these young men endured. The boredom, adrenaline highs, the heat and the loss of their youth. The book was somewhat repetitive and a bit longer than necessary. I liked the sniper training but too much boring detail. Character development was good enough to see the mens souls.

Any book that can make me feel as if I almost knew what it was like, the hardships and extremes of military life, the bluntness of some and how the men travelled each day to take care of business, and themselves. I certainly dont rate this book as extreme, or a glorifying anything other than what the guys did, and how they survived. I sit here today wondering how i would have handled some of those things, yet gratefull I dont have to. Well written for me, and I can well recommend this title above a number of othes. Lest we forget.

Gives a good in site to a Marine like in the Arizona. Not much about snipping, it is all to do with good Marine Corps marksman training.

Although he trains as a sniper, the author's single use of a sniper rifle is in accidentally shooting a group of Vietnamese prisoners of war. He at no point in the book undertakes duty as a sniper, making the book's title a little misleading.The rest of this story is taken up by the author's love of the American Marine Corps; his criticism of officers' tactics and repeated assertion that the marines are the best trained military service in the world. This does not make for particularly interesting reading and there are countless grunt stories from the American war in Vietnam that are both more eventful and better told.

I have read many a better book about Vietnam and this one doesn't come across as realistic.Maybe I am wrong about that just my opinion** stars

Again a true story that highlights the true cruel scary face of war

really enjoyed the book would recommend it to anyone those boys must have gone through hell and back out there

This in my opinion is a very good account of what life must have been like in the marines in Vietnam,really worth a read.