{"product_id":"the-brown-shoe-army-9781257917051","title":"The Brown Shoe Army","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Raymond W. Smith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1959 Ray Smith joined the 340th Engineers unaware that he might be expected to fight on a nuclear battlefield. After an eventful Basic Training, Ray was ordered to a Fort Gordon Georgia unit named after the Reserve Forces Act (RFA #1). There, 470 low-ranking enlisted men, mostly college graduates, were supervised by a first lieutenant, a sergeant and a corporal who ran the mail room. All were unmotivated \"short-timers\" whose interests were comfort, sleep and counting the days, not unlike characters from previous generations-No Time for Sergeants, Biloxi Blues or M*A*S*H-except that one day, with a few weeks remaining in their enlistment, the RFA #1 boys were told that they were to become Pentomic warriors modeled after the 101st Airborne Division.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lulu.com","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46866986041495,"sku":"9781257917051","price":1926.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781257917051.webp?v=1769984089","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-brown-shoe-army-9781257917051","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}