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It’s 1969 and Ruben Dann is dissatisfied with his lot. When he was drafted out of a dead-end job delivering furniture he hoped the army would teach him a useful trade. Instead his Advanced Individual Training assignment was 11 Bravo, the army’s alpha-numeric notation for the infantry—another dead-end job. Two months into his one year tour of duty in Vietnam, Ruben is an unmotivated twenty year old recruit, being herded around the battlefield by sergeants and officers, searching for an elusive enemy he doesn’t want to find, and counting the days until rotation. Author's Note Reading something like an ethnography, Grunt’s Minutia is a recreation of a specific time and place in minute detail. It may be of interest to historians, veterans and anyone who has an interest in the Vietnam War and/or what life was like for a conscripted infantry soldier in the latter half of that conflict. This is not a typical war novel—covering just sixteen days, it's the Vietnam war unedited, not just the highlights. It is an unromanticized account, told from the perspective of a young, disillusioned infantry Pfc., and will be of little interest to those looking for action, excitement, extreme violence, uplifting messages, heroic or patriotic themes. —Jack Yaghubian Photographs, maps and illustrations throughout. Glossary of terms.
Grunt Minutia Jack Yaghubian 9780966711912 Books
I loved this book. The other reviews are great, so I'll only add a couple of things.I agree that it takes a little bit to get into the rhythm of the book. Wait for it, and get there, you'll be glad you did.
I loved the use of slang in the book, who knew some of these expressions were that old?
Plus the nicknames for all the military stuff is really great. Did you ever wonder where a bunch of guys in a jungle encampment would 'take a leak'? All those great war movies never show something so mundane, and it's great to see simple little details like this given proper coverage and explanation! This is a book of details. Stuff you could only get by being there. Cheers to Jack for writing this! Keep it coming!
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Grunt Minutia Jack Yaghubian 9780966711912 Books Reviews
This was a realistic view of the war in Quang Tri in 1969,1970. not a bunch of phony gung ho phony war stories.Jack through his charactor Rubin Dann tells it like it was.It's not the lifers view but the draftee's view.Ihave read other books by Vietnam vets and some were so phony I never finished them. This is as real as I remember it.Jack did a great job on this book. I am not Ellen Montgomery, I am her husband L. J.montgomery.
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So, North Beach legend and ubiquitous San Francisco bar tender and raconteur, Jack “The Hat” Yaghubian went to Viet Nam in 1969. If you read his book Grunt’s Minutia you will know everything you will ever need to about how lucky you are that you did not have to.
Grunt’s Minutia details in crushing, hypnotic detail the day-to-day activities, encounters and observations of one insightful and astonishingly good humored (considering the hell of dullness he occupies) “dogface” draftee. Jack’s alter-ego “Ruben Dann” floats from one trenchant observation to the next from the life of a infantry man/draftee over the coarse of “sixteen days in the fall of 1969″. His descriptions of his fellow unfortunate draftee/grunts, and their scorned counterparts – gung-ho army “lifers”, painfully mundane daily tasks, and the deadening daily minutia of an E-3 draftee, are drawn in such microscopic detail and so matter of fact-ly, that there can be no doubt all these terrible things actually happened to our hero.
I picked the book up a several times after buying one from Jack at the book premier in Tosca’s a year ago. I could never get more than 30 ages into it. Then, finally, I got it. Jack doesn’t want to TELL us about his Viet Nam experiences, he wants us to actually FEEL what the daily grind was like. Once I got into the prose and the world created, it was like hearing a song or a piece of music that you simply cannot get out of your head. The book has a lot in common with CS Lewis’ The Great Divorce - the descriptions of the damned in Lewis’ great allegory are hellish indeed. Instead of being boiled in oil or squewered by demons, Lewis’ unfortunates, stand alone in interminable lines in a grey drizzle; they occupy cities much as they did while alive, and they live in homes commensurate with their status in their earthly incarnations. Napoleon and Bismark reside in gray palaces, while the more mundane malefactors lurk about in suitably modest bungalows. The common denominator is an incessant dull rain that cuts right through the roofs of their homes, their hats and their clothes. They are eternally uncomfortable, on edge and never able to accomplish the simplest of tasks.
The young soldiers that pass through Jacks hypnotic scenarios, are in a similar hell of uncertainty and discomfort. Once I settled into the language and the obsessively detailed and repetative descriptions of his characters day-to-day existence, I couldn’t put the book down. My horror and fascination only deepened chapter by chapter. The high point of the book for me was when protagonist Ruben Dann realizes that the job of burning the huge piles of soldier s*** left in the latrines is such an easy job compared to most of the other details the pfc’s are expected to do, that he becomes very excited and starts conniving to somehow land this “gravy” assignment. For the reader it’s a blow-the-soda-out-your-nostrils revelation and a defining detail about the absurdity and torment these poor grunts live each day in the bush.
There are no heroics, no Apocalypse Now or The Green Berets moments in Grunts Minutia. The violence is short lived, brutal, confusing and infrequent. The real violence is in the spirit crushing boredom that the kafkaesque daily exercises that these painfully young soldiers experience at a time in their lives when they should be making out with other teenagers, studying music, history, auto repair….anything but what they are forced to do by an intrinsically unfair universe.
I loved this book. The other reviews are great, so I'll only add a couple of things.
I agree that it takes a little bit to get into the rhythm of the book. Wait for it, and get there, you'll be glad you did.
I loved the use of slang in the book, who knew some of these expressions were that old?
Plus the nicknames for all the military stuff is really great. Did you ever wonder where a bunch of guys in a jungle encampment would 'take a leak'? All those great war movies never show something so mundane, and it's great to see simple little details like this given proper coverage and explanation! This is a book of details. Stuff you could only get by being there. Cheers to Jack for writing this! Keep it coming!
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