Richard Sonstelie was raised in an Army family, graduated West Point with the class of 1966 (which was chronicled in Rick Atkinson’s book, The Long Gray Line), and arrived in Vietnam as a young captain in 1968. He tells his remarkable story of being an engineering battalion intelligence officer, then an operations officer, and finally the “very heady experience” of leading an Army engineering company in combat at the age of 24. He notes that his father had been the senior adviser to ARVN General Thuan’s 5th Division and that he was therefore befriended by the general and his family. He remembers with gratitude being presented the Bronze Star for valor by his father who happened to be in Vietnam at the time. He shares insights on leadership, and friendship, and the incredible confusion of a fire fight; the sound, the light, and the terrible difficulty of maintaining order and discipline and passing on orders in the fog of war (“most of the movies don’t do it justice”). He recalls the Moon landing, the Michelin Rubber Plantation, the role of the Cu Chi tunnels in the major perimeter breach of the 25th Infantry Division in February of 1969, and trying to keep a low profile while riding on top of a tank while being shot at by the enemy.