Bullets and Bandages: A DMZ Story - Vietnam 1967

Two men bound by family ties found themselves with the same battalion of leathernecks in the northern reaches of South Vietnam in 1967. Mike Marowski, a staff sergeant, was pressed into command of a rifle platoon at Con Thien, a hilltop outpost close to the demilitarized zone, because too few officers were available. His brother-in-law, Terry King, a Navy corpsman, was assigned as senior medic to another company from the battalion, which was resting at Dong Ha. Both had already survived combat and trusted their training, yet on the DMZ that trust was tested in ways few Marines or corpsmen ever faced. The men of First Battalion, Ninth Marines, were about to learn why their unit had earned its grim nickname.