universities and talk with professors who also read the book you might not have heard about and joining nellis meredith lair a history professor and her book is not quite out yet. it should be by the time this airs but here is the cover of its. armed with abundance. consumer is signed soldiering in the vietnam war. professor lair, what was the typical experience of the american soldier in the vietnam? >> guest: that is the great question to start because the american public has an assumption what it was informed by television, movies, media coverage of the war that tends to focus on the experience of the ground in the boonies in imminent danger living a life of obscurity and degradation and enduring the frequent danger and that is a powerful image and experience that many vietnam veterans have during the war but it is probably not the dominated experience of the war because by the late 1960's the united states had built an incredible logistical a apparatus to support its combat so most soldiers and the viet nam or serving in some kind of a support capacity living largely out of harm's way and as the wa