{"product_id":"the-brown-shoe-army-raymond-w-smith-9781257917051","title":"The Brown Shoe Army","description":"In 1959 Ray Smith joined the 340th Engineers unaware that he might be expected to fight on a nuclear battlefield. After an eventful Basic Training, Ray was ordered to a Fort Gordon Georgia unit named after the Reserve Forces Act (RFA #1). There, 470 low-ranking enlisted men, mostly college graduates, were supervised by a first lieutenant, a sergeant and a corporal who ran the mail room. All were unmotivated \"short-timers\" whose interests were comfort, sleep and counting the days, not unlike characters from previous generations-No Time for Sergeants, Biloxi Blues or M*A*S*H-except that one day, with a few weeks remaining in their enlistment, the RFA #1 boys were told that they were to become Pentomic warriors modeled after the 101st Airborne Division.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raymond W. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1257917056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781257917051\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Raymond W. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44122355597567,"sku":"9781257917051","price":25.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b64c206a-66bf-48f6-9180-1730fc131d07.jpg?v=1687424644","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-brown-shoe-army-raymond-w-smith-9781257917051","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}