LRRP (Provisional) 2nd Bde 4th Infantry Division Vietnam 1966-67

De: Frank Camper

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

True story of the 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division's small, ragtag "provisional" long range patrol platoon that was so effective it became the official model for 1st and 2nd Field Force MACV LRRP's covering the whole country, authorized by General Westmoreland. The 2nd Brigade LRRP's made history.

excellent, no frills description of actual military events

I liked everything about the actual book, well-written, clean prose, very detailed, incredibly engage and propulsive.

I dislike the virtual voice narration because it is incapable of many basic speaking skills. It struggled with the numerical names of military groups, made weird pauses after every period -- even the ones in military titles like Lt. There were other smaller issues as well, but they didn't affect the comprehension of the content nearly as much.

A must read-listen for 11B

This is a realistic and gripping retelling of the Vietnam war from the Ground Pounders. Every Soldier must read and understand what it means to be in combat. The computer generated reading of this book is very good overall but there are some glitches, like pauses after a period when reading a tank and name of a person.

the use of voice AI is not how such an important story should be told..

dislike the use of AI voice mispronouncing words..and SOG stood for studies and observation group not special operations group.. not having properly titles and names is disrespectful to the men that experienced this war,

This is an excellent book

Dont be put off by the clumsy title and "virtual voice" narration, if you are interested in lrrps or the Vietnam war in general, you'll love this book. Honestly the artificial voice acting is pretty impressive, outside of a few brief moments it sounds perfectly fine

AI Narrator

The story is a familiar one, and I enjoy hearing the background and exploits of the Vietnam War and the brave soldiers who actively participated in the fight. That said, the AI narrator is a sad example of failure to provide the story the respect it deserves with a human reading it. Mispronunciations, inaccurate sentence translation (stopping as if a complete sentence after an abbreviation, i.e. “Col. Smith”), mixing military abbreviations and literal spellings (145th Arty pronounced as one four five tee aytch arty) etc, etc were obvious and repeated throughout the book. My suggestion would be to find a few VFW lodges and get some narrators who would very likely do it for free.

Great story - bad read by AI

Amazing first person retelling of their time in country. You can almost imagine being in his skin. Unfortunately the virtual voice was a horrible choice. It took away from the overall experience.

A book on legends

Great read, a must for Vietnam and special ops history fans. I would Recommend to all.

very interesting

don’t let the AI performance dissuade you from listening to this. thank goodness I had a student deferment from the Viet Nam draft back then. this straight forward and detailed book of what it was like on the ground day to day for grunts and specialized reconnaissance patrol soldiers makes me feel like I was there. i recommend it

Clearly describes life in an LRRP unit

I felt that this book gave a "good" description of life in an LRRP unit. Not great but nothing annoying about it, either.
I think that was due to the writing being a bit bland, not the story, per se.

Yes, it's narrated by Virtual Voice, but I was surprised how good VV was. I was very surprised how human and realistic it sounds. Again, it's not great and doesn't know when to give emotion or intonation, but it's not bad either. I can think of *certain human narrators* would I would love to see replaced by Virtual Voice. VV doesn't make the faux pas that you would expect (e.g. knowing which of the various ways to pronounce the word 'read') but you could tell when edits had been spliced in, so maybe they were corrections of such instances. Which is odd... why can we tell when they splice in a fix? Talking of odd things and realism, you can even hear when Virtual Voice turns the page! Hey... think about that...

So anyway, if you'd like to learn more about the LRRPs in Vietnam, this is definitely worth your time.

Eye opening sorry, unfortunately read by AI.

Very informative story. Unfortunately having this read by AI, messing up simple words… messing up on normal inflections…. if you know what AI meant to say, you will be rolling your eyes too many times, to pay attention to what’s being said. If you don’t know what it meant to say, you’ll be trying to figure out what it meant, too often to be paying attention to the story.