Why a Soldier?: A Signal Corpsman's Tour from Vietnam to the Moscow Hot Line

He was one of the best Airborne proud to serve his country and fight its toughest war--in the hell that was Vietnam.. Known to all as Fitz Signal Corps officer David Fitz-Enz served two tours in Vietnam. He was a soldier combat photographer and platoon leader fighting Americas cruelest war--from the VC-infested rice paddies of the Mekong Delta to the dreaded Ia Drang Valley where the enemy ruled the night. . Dispensing with traditional sluggish chains of command the Signal Corps developed a rapid-response system based on greater flexibility cutting-edge communications technology and interdependence between the branches of the military during the war. Now commanders in the field were able to call in artillery air strikes and reinforcements at a moments notice. Fitz-Enz himself orchestrated the first-ever hook up over tactical systems between the President in the Oval Office and a general in the Vietnam jungle. The only book of its kind WHY A SOLDIER? gives us the inside view of the Corps as it launched an exciting new era in strategic and tactical communications that set the groundwork for all future military operations.