Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68219 in Books
• Published on: 1992-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 256 pages

From the Author
Acceptable Loss
This book actually came out in paperback in 1990 and in 1996 won the Bernal Diaz Award for Best Military non-fiction. The hardcover editor was released in 1997 by the Military Book Club. I'm very pleased that it is still in print and pleased with the readers who have helped keep it in print. My second book, MIA Rescue, is doing well with IVY and Paldin Press, and again thanks to the readers.Two new releases are scheduled in 98 and hopefully, if the publishers will let me I'll go into mystery fiction. Thanks for the support and if you get a chance then check out Gary Linderer's fine books, as well as Kenn Miller and Rey Martinez.

Customer Reviews

A book by a hero of mine
This is one of the best personal accounts of the vietnam war.

Kregg Jorgenson is one of my heros, but also one of Americas, he
is decorated with the silver star, the bronze star and 3 purple
hearts
Kregg Jorgenson (KJ) tell his story how he lived it.

KJ started his service in Vietnam with the 1 cavalry division, while at the repo center he decided to join the Ranger company of the 1 cav; Hotel company.
After a short training period he started going out on patrols and soon got into his first firefight.
A short while later his partol got into a more serious firefight
that saw the ATL and his best friend killed in action and another
team member woundet, KJ and his teamleader performed admirable, getting the whole team extrated under fire while fighting off the NVA.
Even though that KJ felt that he had failed his teammates and his best friend, the division decidet that the Teamleader and KJ deserved the Silver star.
Having lost confidence in himself as a ranger, KJ decidet to quit the Rangers, he tranfered to A troop ( aka Apache) of the 1/9.
First he tried out the scouts, but his stomach could not handle the rollercoaster rides, he decides to join the infantry platoon of apache troop, the Blues.
Here he served as a squadleader, and he did not mind walking point, some said that he enjoyed it.
His service in apache troop got him inte several firefight, that saw him woundet two more times and earning a bronze star for valor.
He also had the disputed honor of being shoot on camera while in a shootout with a NVA pointman, KJ killed the NVA pointman but was hit in both legs during in the process.
so KJ had the "honor" of being called "the sarge who like to walk point", making him a national hero in an efternoon.

Acceptable loss is one of my favorite books, it is well written, many of the episodes in the books has been well documented in other books, KJ writes with a sarcasm and self ironi that offen makes you laugh, he makes his comrades in the blues platoon come alive and you get the feeling that you almost know them in person.
A very good books by any standart, go buy it, you will not regret
it.

Bo Hermansen

Fantastic
An excellent account from kregg Jorgenson. Decorated with the Silver and Bronze Star, along with 3 purple Hearts, this is a brilliant book about courage/bravery as well as fear and tragic loss during Kregg's tour of Vietnam between 1969 and 1970. Having been part of a LRRP team who were overrun - surviving against all the odds, then to be transferred to Alpha Troop, 1st of the 9th Air Cavalry Unit, where he continued as Point Man for a total of 54 missions, Kregg's battle to survive his Tour is truely amazing. An excellent account which demonstrates how the war alienated many Infantry soldiers with the rest of society in America (the World). Definately reccommend, and as this book describes...He has one hell of a story to tell!.....

Up there with books such as Chickenhawk, Five Years to Freedom, Once a Warrior King and Fields of Fire - all of which I would highly reccommend!!

You will not be disappointed
A very powerful and moving tribute, not only to a modest hero, but also the countless others who served on the frontline in Vietnam. As an advisor to Terence Knox, Sgt Anderson in Tour of Duty, you can see that the author made a significant contribution to what was a brilliant TV series. It is difficult not to feel humbled, even a little ashamed, by the sacrifices made by such young men in war. For all the horror the book is well-written with some wonderful laugh-out-loud moments. One of the best books about combat and the tragedies of the Vietnam War.