At All Costs, by Matt Proietti
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The remarkable true story of a career GI’s leading role in a secret radar mission, the resolve he demonstrates during an attack on his mountaintop camp—-and the 42-year quest for America to recognize his actions.
In 1967, after 16 years in uniform, Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Dick Etchberger is starting to make plans for a post-military life when he is invited to participate in a clandestine Vietnam War mission. There’s a catch, though: he must accept the assignment before he’s told of the location. Etchberger quickly agrees to this condition and is sent to Southeast Asia with two dozen other Air Force technicians to run a secret radar site atop a remote peak.
Posing as civilian contract workers, the men use an early computer to direct pilots to hit targets with greater accuracy regardless of visibility. Their operation, Project Heavy Green, has the blessing of the highest levels of Washington, D.C., as President Lyndon B. Johnson hopes improved bombing results will coax North Vietnam to negotiate an end to the war.
The mission is initially successful, though the team’s presence on the mountain is known almost immediately. The enemy soon launches a bizarre aerial assault on the camp. It is largely ineffective. A later ground attack, however, is not and results in the Air Force’s greatest loss of ground personnel in the war. Etchberger’s actions lead to the survival of three men, but not his own.
With eyewitnesses to Etchberger’s courage, why did it take four decades for the U.S. to recognize him with the nation’s highest award for military valor? Because they took place in Laos, a country officially neutral toward the neighboring war and off-limits to outside forces. Presenting him the Medal of Honor was impossible as it would have exposed U.S. presence there. It would take decades—and an improbable pathway—to reach this objective.
So begins the second phase of this remarkable story.
At All Costs, by Matt Proietti- Amazon Sales Rank: #107214 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Released on: 2015-05-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Author Matt Proietti is a former community newspaper editor and a longtime military public affairs professional. Like Dick Etchberger, he reached the Air Force's highest enlisted rank of chief master sergeant, though Proietti did so as a reservist. He is a 4-time recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest honor in Defense Department journalism.
The book grew out of Proietti's 2008 assignment running the Air Force news team in Washington, D.C. He painstakingly researched Chief Etchberger's life and career, interviewing Air Force personnel involved with the Laos mission, talking with Dick's friends and family, and researching the historical and political context of the mission at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.
The New England native lives in Northern California with his wife, Varina. This is his first book.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. When Matt sent me my signed copy of "At All ... By Keith When Matt sent me my signed copy of "At All Costs" he told me "It's just straightforward, shoe leather reporting that doesn't get in the way of the story." That is true but it is also a lot more. I finished the book in only a few hours and started reading it again to pick out those additional stories I would have to read about. The story is complete in and of itself, but it also helps open the door to find other tails of the men and women who served in Southeast Asia. My Father was Air Force reserve, my uncle served 33 years in the Air Force starting in the Vietnam era and retired from the Air Force just shy of 25 years and I had never heard the entire story of Chief Etchberger. Matt's book connects a lot of dots about the Air Force's involvement during that time.Just about every military reader or movie viewer knows about "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young," or the Green Berets, even the Air Forces role in the sky, but few know the Air Force mission on the ground and Matt's book helps shed light on some little known events, and men who died in the service of their nation.The story of getting the medal awarded is just as interesting as the reason Chief Etchberger was awarded the medal.Well done CMSgt Matt Proietti, well done.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. An outstanding tribute to a Great American By Raymond Sarracino This a compelling, and fast read of a remarkable period in our nation's military history. While the focus is on the principle subject, Chief Etchberger, the snapshot of the period, tactics, and technology is superb! This is an outstanding piece of work that shines as a tribute to the people who fought a war that the nation appears to have preferred to forget. I'm looking forward to Matt Proietti's next book, which I hope will be forthcoming soon!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Military Biography Actually Worth Reading By Jd Walter A refreshing approach to an important subject. Not given to hyperbole, like the better part of military accounts written in the last 15 years, Proietti brings an old school journalist savvy to the story of USAF Chief Master Sergeant Richard Etchberger, recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. 'Etch' is the kind of man you want your son to grow up to be, not because he did something heroic, but because he wouldn't have seen it that way. Proietti's story telling is as honest and deliberate as 'Etch' himself and I get the sense this is exactly how he would have told it. Well researched and delivered, this not only a compelling story, but an impressive first entry by Proiette.
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