262 pages, cloth, dj, very good. 1st printing. From the publisher: Tauber decided to stay out of Vietnam and out of jail by joining the Army Reserves. But little in his background had prepared him for the eight weeks at Fort Bliss, Texas, in which he underwent that unique experience which leaves an indelible mark on nearly a third of the male population of America: Basic Training. The Sunshine Soldiers are a group of liberal, middle-class, college-educated New Yorkers (mostly reservists), blacks and Puerto Ricans from Eastern ghettoes (mostly draftees), and brawny, conservative Texans (mostly enlistees), all thrown together in what Tauber describes as a ritual of irrational authority, mindless bureaucracy, staggering inefficiency, relentless psychological pressure and general chaos. He portrays the development of the men's attitudes towards themselves, each other, and their country inn the context of the in sane hilarity and surrealistic raucousness of the U.S. Army.

SUNSHINE SOLDIERS UNITED STATES ARMY MILITARY LIFE BASIC TRAINING