Parthian Shot Author:Loyd Little The Few &nb... more »sp; The Proud The Outrageous
The time: 1964. The place:Nan Phuc village, the Mekong Delta, South Vietnam. The men: "A Team" 34A, U S Army Special Forces, popularly known as the Green Berets. Army records say, simply and stupefyingly, that they have been sent back home. But they are still very much in Vietnam.
To survive in the Delta they need ammunition and supplies, so they tap their Yankee ingenuity and become specialists in organized chaos.
They market their soldiering skills to the local friendly warlord. They train a village in the manufacture of brassieres and Viet Cong flags. They dream about sex, and, together with a local Buddhist cult, from the most lovable army in military history.