Paw Power - By Rusty Allen - Table of Contents

Paw Power

A Handler's Recollection: My Service in the 47th Scout Dog Platoon

By SGT Rusty Allen, Scout Dog Handler, Vietnam 1968-69
© 1996, 2012 Rusty Allen. All rights reserved

WARNING: The material in this unfinished manuscript contains graphic language and descriptions and may not be suitable for some readers. The accounts are based on actual events during SGT Allen's service with the 47th while he was in training at Fort Benning, Georgia and in action in Vietnam.

No portions of Paw Power may be reproduced in any form without written permission

Manuscript Table of Contents

Prologue
Hell in the A Shau
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Chapter One - January, 1968, Fort Benning Georgia
Chapter Two - Hello Dog School
Chapter Three - Liftoff
Chapter Four - Japan, Briefly
Chapter Five - Boots and Paws On the Ground
Chapter Six - Saigon Quarrantine
Chapter Seven - Landing Zone Sally
Chapter Eight - Heat, Sandbags, and Dust
Chapter Nine - Mongoose
Chapter Ten - First Missions
Chapter Eleven - Eight Click Ville
Chapter Twelve - Casualties!
Chapter Thirteen - Into a Hot LZ

Return to 47th Main Page
Platoon photographs may not be republished without written permission