New book by Billy Waugh.

[Christophe]

Mr Waugh is working on a new book. I will get it as soon as it becomes available.
This is the info I got from Mr Waugh:

I have a non-fiction being wrapped up soon, which is the true accounting of SFC Isaac Camacho, a Special Forces man taken as a POW in 1963 - at Camp Heip Hoa, South Vietnam; marched 150KM across the Plain of the Reeds, then caged and chained for 2 years in Cambodia, very near the South Vietnamese Border.
This is a fine story concerning an American Hero, for Isaac Camacho escaped at the end of his 21st month in the cage, as the chains were removed from his legs, for the North Vietnamese were certain he would die in a matter of days. Isaac Camacho escaped the first night his chains were removed, during a driving Monsoon rain, with the guard sitting now more than 10 meters from him, and looking straight at him.
The lad made it to freedom. A fine lad, determined, and dedicated, a man of whom were are all proud.
You can read the web-site concerning this effort at http://members.aol.com/bear317d/camacho.htm
The book will be a fine one.

[rubberneck]

I could always use another good book to read. I am looking forward to getting a copy.

[Team Sergeant]

Mr Waugh is working on a new book. I will get it as soon as it becomes available.
This is the info I got from Mr Waugh:

I have a non-fiction being wrapped up soon, which is the true accounting of SFC Isaac Camacho, a Special Forces man taken as a POW in 1963 - at Camp Heip Hoa, South Vietnam; marched 150KM across the Plain of the Reeds, then caged and chained for 2 years in Cambodia, very near the South Vietnamese Border.
This is a fine story concerning an American Hero, for Isaac Camacho escaped at the end of his 21st month in the cage, as the chains were removed from his legs, for the North Vietnamese were certain he would die in a matter of days. Isaac Camacho escaped the first night his chains were removed, during a driving Monsoon rain, with the guard sitting now more than 10 meters from him, and looking straight at him.
The lad made it to freedom. A fine lad, determined, and dedicated, a man of whom were are all proud.
You can read the web-site concerning this effort at http://members.aol.com/bear317d/camacho.htm
The book will be a fine one.

SGM Billy Waugh wrote ProfessionalSoldiers.com a while back and informed us he was finishing his new book.....;)

SGM Waugh is a member on this website.;)

Team Sergeant

[JGarcia]

Now THAT is an EXCELLENT life story. I will forward that link to all my liberal relatives.

[FMF DOC]

For those of us who have sometimers disease could a message be posted when the book is released to the public?

Thank You

[JMI]

His first book Hunting the Jackal:A Special Forces and CIA Ground Soldier's Fifty-Year Career Hunting America's Enemies (http://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Jackal-Soldiers-Fifty-Year-Americas/dp/0060564091) is discussed on this site HERE (http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1755&highlight=billy+waugh)

Read the first book 3 times. Here is an excerpt from the first book:\

This bloody, chest-thumping memoir showcases the Special Forces mindset at its most fanatical. Maimed in a firefight with the North Vietnamese, Waugh limped back to Vietnam, his shrapnel-riddled leg oozing pus, to volunteer for six more years in combat. When that war wound down, Waugh bounced around until he found a new lease on life as an "independent contractor" with the CIA. Happily ensconced in squalid, sweltering Khartoum in the early 1990s, he surveiled all-star terrorist Carlos the Jackal and kept tabs on up-and-comer Osama bin Laden, for whom he drew up assassination plans, only to have them nixed by "sanctimonious" higher-ups. Never one to fade away, Waugh, age 71, wangled his way into a Special Forces unit for the 2001 campaign in Afghanistan, where the younger soldiers "worshipped" him. There he relished the awesome accuracy of American smart bombs, but still pined for the excitement of the up close and personal throat-slitting and machine-gunning of his salad days in Vietnam. Waugh is a Special Forces zealot, reserving his bitterest ire not for Communists and terrorists but for squeamish civilian officials and conventional military brass who disdain special ops. He doggedly eschews introspection, proclaiming himself "a man of action, a man who functions" without "gazing into the distance, pondering the meaning of it all." Co-writer Keown, co-author of the Dennis Rodman memoir Bad as I Wanna Be, keeps the writing taut, pungent and full of coarse, often gross, thrills and lots of special ops and spycraft lore. But Waugh himself emerges as a one-dimensional, blustering character to whom the years seem to have bequeathed more fervor than wisdom

[Richard]

FWIW--Billy Waugh is not loved by 'everyone' in the SF community...ask the 'Soap Bubbles' on RT Plane what they think of him.

Richard's $.02 :munchin