Tom Vossler graduated from the Pennsylvania Military College in 1968 and received his Army commission as a second lieutenant through ROTC. After completing the infantry officer basic course at Fort Benning, Georgia, mortar platoon leader training, and the jungle warfare school in Panama, Vossler deployed to Vietnam just after Christmas 1969. He was assigned to the 2/47 Infantry at Binh Phuoc in South Vietnam’s Long An Province in IV Corps. Their mission was primarily to interdict the movement of enemy troops and supplies on trails that came off the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the Mekong Delta area of South Vietnam, primarily by night ambush. Vossler describes mine clearing operations on Thunder Road, Claymore mines and rice paddy dikes, log foot bridges and enemy food caches. He recalls the Cambodian incursion, a worship service in the artillery battery parapet at base camp, an M113 filled with TNT hit by an RPG killing seven, and Soldiers policing the drug business themselves. He participated in the 9th Infantry Division inactivation ceremony. He retired from the Army as a colonel in 1998.