The Grand Tour by Adam O'Fallon Price

Author:Adam O'Fallon Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-09T04:00:00+00:00

We’d been in camp for almost three months—three months of sitting there with our thumbs up our asses, in some cases literally (a new kid from Idaho named Sanderson was caught in the latrine with three fingers in his bung; he claimed the mess chow had made him so constipated that he was trying to manually extricate a turd, and was nicknamed Brownfinger for the duration of his tour, another two months, as it turned out, at which time he was mortared at Parrot’s Beak and sent home without legs or a nickname)—when we got our marching orders.

Sergeant Martin gave them to us after breakfast. They were: a weeklong push to Nha Trang, north of Cam Ranh; pack light on provisions, heavy on ammo; decamping tomorrow oh six hundred; expect engagement. In other words, as usual, no one told us what in the green living shit was going on. We marched all day—our safe little base camp disappearing behind us, through alternating paddies and rain forest—with the question of where the fuck we were going and why going back and forth like a sung call-and-response:

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