{"product_id":"policing-saigon-paperback","title":"Policing Saigon - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLoren W. Christensen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**. Be Sure To Check Out Loren's New Novel, 100-P Alley Inspired by a Horrific Place in Saigon During The War. **\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePolicing Saigon isn't Platoon or Apocalypse Now, but the story of Loren W. Christensen's experience as a military policeman (MP) in a city of millions at a time when chaos and fear reigned.\u003cp\u003eAs a 23-year-old from a small town in Washington State, the author was plunged into a chaotic city of brawling servicemen, prostitutes, racial violence, enemy rockets, riots, and death. It was a place that would give him a unique opportunity to see up close a different side of the Vietnam War and its effect on the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearly 80 stories collectively convey the author's experiences, and his arc-from naive to jaded, angry, confused, anxious, and bone-weary exhausted-is representative of so many GIs who served in the Vietnam War as well as those veterans of today's conflicts around the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A true warrior and a gifted and prolific author, Loren gives the reader a deep and illuminating insight into his experience that changed his life and subsequently led him toward helping others through his writing. Policing Saigon is a powerful book.\" Lt. Col. Dave Grossman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMilitary Policeman Loren Christensen takes the reader on a gritty, moving, and intense ride-a-along in Saigon, Vietnam. K.F., Afghanistan War veteran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: THE FIRST FEW DAYS \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 1: Flying there \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 2: Door gunners and policing for cigarette butts \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 3: Welcome to Saigon \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 4: Python \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 5: Culture shock \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 6: Dead men's gear \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePART TWO: \"ROUTINE DAYS\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 7: Day after day \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 8: EOD \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 9: Skylight \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 10: Cobra \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 11: Bob Hope \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 12: Papa-san and the ammo truck \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 13: Dead mama-san \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 14: Jail window \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 15: \"Karate number one\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 16: Sampson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 17: 100-P alley \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 18: 200-P alley \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 19: The swimming pool \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 20: \"Dance to the Music\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 21: Drugs \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 22: Tracer rounds \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 23: Puff the magic dragon \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 24: Almost a coup \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 25: Vietnam blues \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 26: Tension \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 27: A shaky fork \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 28: Illusions of relief \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 29: Korean Marines \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 30: AFVN radio: \"Gooooood morning, Vietnaaaaaam\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 31: \"I'm not a crook\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 32: Running Code3 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 33: Fire \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 34: Riot \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 35: Power and rank: a deadly mix \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 36: The vision \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCh 37: Screams \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 38: Meyerkord Hotel \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 39: Resisting arrest \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 40: Letters \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 41: One GI who went home and came right back \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePART THREE: LOSING IT \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 42: Silencer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 43: Hangman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 44: Johnny Walker Black \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 45: Escaped prisoner \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 46: The Punch \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 47: Death of the spirit \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 48: Grenade \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePART FOUR: PROSTITUTES \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 49: \"Boom-boom number one\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 50: Clap \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 51: Peter \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePART FIVE: THE INDIGENOUS \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 52: A fellow martial artist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 53: A most excellent shot \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 54: \"Everybody's talkin' 'bout me\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 55: China girl \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 56: Date night \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 57: The old gravedigger \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 58: Altered states: The Buddhist Temple \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 59: Dog sex and an alligator baby \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePART SIX: STREET CHILDREN \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 60: A Tu Do paperboy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 61: Cemetery Kids \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 62: Country Kids \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePART SEVEN: HOME: THE FIRST YEAR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 63: We gotta get out of this place \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 64: Mom and dad \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 65: \"You're home now\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 66: Small adjustments \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 67: Martial arts \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 68: \"Your name Christensen?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 69: First-year triggers \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePART EIGHT: TEN YEARS AFTER \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 70: Some talked about it, some didn't \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChap 71: \"I have to get more guns\"\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 362\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default 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