The Gunner and the Grunt

Two Boston Boys in Vietnam With the First Calvary Division Airmobile

By: Michael L. Kelley, Peter Burbank

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

The Gunner and the Grunt is written in the voices of two soldiers who fought in the same battles as members of the same recon unit but from different angles. Michael Kelley, the "Gunner," was flying in an armed helicopter above the jungle providing suppressive fire support, while Peter Burbank, the "Grunt," was down in the jungle on foot patrol involved in fire fights with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troops.

The book follows these two Boston boys from army training through deployment to the war zone and the shock of first combat missions, to helicopter air assault "Search and Destroy" operations from the Cambodian border to the sands of the South China Sea.

©2023 Michael L. Kelly (P)2023 Tantor

Great Book

I really enjoyed this memoir from the early years of the Vietnam war. I also enjoyed how each chapter flips back and forth between Burbank and Kelley.

well written and told

This is a well written and told about what it was like to serve in the Veitnam War as a door gunner and a Grunt. I believe that you will also enjoy this book