Richard Koziell grew up in a “mill town” outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents both served during WWII; his father was a Marine on Guam, and his mother built landing craft - LSTs. After high school, he attended a seminary and Duquesne University, and then he relinquished a teaching deferment in 1967 to become an Army officer in Military Intelligence. Koziell spent a year at Fort Holabird, MD before the Army ordered him to Vietnam in August 1968. Posted in the central IV Corps area, he served a year in Can To Province as part of a six-man advisory team in the Phoenix Program. He says leadership was not natural for him, and he describes his observations of the ARVN officers he was advising and the different leadership styles of the Americans he led and worked with. “We were mostly on a first-name basis, but the major was always ‘the boss’.” He describes the Phoenix Program in depth, speaks candidly about corruption and social tensions, and he details several patrols he participated in. He says dysentery was unavoidable, and he speaks of creative methods used to get movies from the supply system and rations from the nearest chow hall. He kissed the ground at the Pittsburgh airport on his homecoming, and he closes by saying, “Sometimes it is not about winning, it’s how you fought.”