Long Range Recon Patrol (LRRP) in Vietnam | Larry Chambers (throwback ep)
The Team House
dee takos
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🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
A national award winning artist (First place winner in the 2011 National Veterans Creative Arts Contest). Chambers is one of 13 exhibiting artists acknowledged by the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War Commission to honor and pay tribute to Vietnam Veterans and their families during the 50th Anniversary of the war commemoration. Chambers served with F Co 58th Inf LRP and the originating L Co 75th Rangers 101st Abn (“Merrill’s Marauders’) company one of the thirteen LRRP (long-range reconnaissance patrol) companies in Vietnam. His decorations include the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Bronze Star with (V) for valor and one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Medal with (V) for valor and one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Commendation Medal, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Parachute Badge, Recondo School Tab, 75th Airborne Ranger Tab, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Civil Actions Medal and the Vietnam Gallantry Cross. Chambers passion is helping other veteran receive their VA benefits and has dedicated himself to helping young veterans by causing a shift in how they deal with the problems they face after they return to civilian life.
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| 0:41.7 | The Team House with your host, Jack Murphy and David Park. Good evening, everyone. |
| 0:43.8 | This is episode 186 of the Team House. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Jack Murphy. |
| 0:48.2 | Dave's out at a cybersecurity conference tonight, |
| 0:50.9 | and it'll just be me and Larry talking tonight. |
| 0:53.9 | Our guest, Larry Chambers, |
| 0:55.9 | is the author of Recondo and Death in Ashaw Valley. He is a former Lerp Ranger, served in the long |
| 1:02.8 | range reconnaissance patrols in Vietnam. One of his teammates was a former guest of the show, Ken Miller. |
| 1:09.0 | I hope you guys will check that interview out after this one. |
| 1:12.5 | Also served with Gary Linderer, you know, a kind of your peer group that wrote a lot about the |
| 1:18.7 | works after the war and people like me read those books, you know, in the 1990s as kids. And it certainly |
| 1:26.2 | found them inspirational. So, I mean, this is really like a special |
| 1:29.4 | moment for me, Larry, and I really appreciate you coming on the show tonight. You're welcome. |
| 1:34.6 | You know, it's exciting. So Larry, I'd like to start off talking about, you know, your origin |
| 1:40.4 | story and sort of like how you grew up and what your pathway was that that eventually |
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