Lieutenant Dangerous

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 The book, Lieutenant Dangerous, by Jeff Danziger sounds familiar to many of us other Vietnam veterans. It’s interesting to me that he ended up as an ordinance officer in Vietnam replacing artillery tubes. Since I was in a heavy artillery battery, we had many tubes (gun barrels) replaced because heavy artillery tubes could not fire very many rounds. Heavy artillery tubes were large and weighed tons. The worst place for this was called Firebase Barbara. One tube exploded there, killing two men. Another replacement tube was being hauled up the mountain we were on by a huge truck, when almost at the top, the tube began to slip off the back of the truck. It did, and rolled down to the valley floor. I suppose it is still there.

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