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Name a book you want made into a movie
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"Phantom Warriors" -
- Gary A. Linderer

Always thought this would make a fantastic movie!  What these LRRPs did, and what they endured, is just an incredible story.  (LRRP stood for 'Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol')  Not even the Navy SEAL teams do stuff like this.  The way Linderer writes; you were there, living it, right next to these guys.

These guys would go out for sometimes weeks at a time into the jungles of Vietnam, moving for hundreds of miles, in complete stealth, often behind enemy lines, and never fire a single shot (for them, firefights were a bad thing).  They were true real-time reconnaissance.  They saw the real Vietnam war, which was far different from the CIA's, and the administration's, fantasy version of the war.  They were so effective they ultimately had to be disbanded/dissolved because they were stealing the thunder of most of the other far more glorified Special Forces units (early SEAL and Green Berets).  It's an incredible story about soldiers whom most people never even knew existed.

edit - On an anecdotal note, many people don't realize that the real life and famed "Ninja's" of 17th century Feudal Japan were really more about stealth and reconnaissance than they were about exotic fighting techniques.  Their trained fighting techniques were only employed when they had failed at their primary mission of staying hidden.  The LRRP's were modeled after this philosophy.
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RE: Name a book you want made into a movie - by FlyingClayDisk - 09-20-2024, 05:30 AM

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