Ed Kugler Marine Scout-Sniper in Vietnam, Ep. 57

The Team House

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Ed Kugler served as a Marine Scout-Sniper in Vietnam. After seeing action during the uprising in the Dominican Republic, Ed volunteered for Vietnam and was trained in the second scout-sniper class run in country. From there, he began a two year odyssey hunting and killing NVA along the DMZ with North Vietnam. His book, Dead Center, is a brutal but real account that tells it like it is. In our interview, Ed talks to us about war and the journey home. Dead Center: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Center-Kugler-Market-Paperback/dp/B00IJ0P2WE Firefights of the Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Firefights-Mind-When-Demons-Follow-ebook/dp/B00PWZ7AVU Support the stream on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse The podcast version of the stream is here: https://soundcloud.com/user-796052562/lrrprangers-in-vietnam-with-kenn-miller-ep-56 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/

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0:47.0	I am here with our special guest, Ed Kugler, on the team house. I'm Jack Murphy. I just recently read Ed's book, Dead Center. It is about his time, his two years as a marine scout sniper in Vietnam, 1966 and 67,
1:05.4	up on the demilitarized zone.
1:09.0	And there's a lot to unpack on this book. I finished reading it this week. I was really impressed with Ed's book, his combat experiences, and really just the rawness of his memoir that it's really written as he experienced it. It's not a glamorized or glorified
1:29.7	account of war by any stretch of the imagination. It kind of tells it is and how he lived it as a young man.
1:35.8	So Ed, thank you so much for joining us today.
1:45.0	Thank you I'm looking forward to it appreciate it.
1:49.0	Could you start by just telling us a little bit about like where you grew up, how you came into the
1:54.8	Marine Corps, where you came out of?
1:57.4	Yeah, I grew up in a little town in Ohio.
2:02.0	It was called Lock 17. It was a 17th lock, they say, on the old Erie Canal.
2:09.4	And we had about 75 people there and but I was surrounded in that little town by veterans from World War II, you know, so I grew up with a lot of people that, you know, impressed me and impacted me.
2:28.0	And I actually, there's no kidding, I actually did a book report in the fifth grade
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