Fox Company Seventh Regiment Summary

This book is about Fox Company, Second Battalion, Seventh Regiment in the Korean war. The first portion is about a hill that they were entrenched in. As wrong as it was some of the leadership rumored that the troops would be back with their families for Christmas. The weather conditions were horrible. The food they got from the cooks would be frozen before they could get back to their fighting holes. And the consuming the frozen food had destroyed their bowels and as a result strips of frozen diarrhea covered the trench latrine. The Browning automatic rifle (BAR) was the favorite weapon of the strongest Marines. I was surprised to find out that the “old” men who were in billets, like squad leader, were only twenty one years old. I found it interesting
He was Fox company’s new CO. When he arrived he did succumb to the company’s unofficial relaxed standards. His uniform was starched and clean. He believed a Marines appearance should reflect combat readiness. He immediately started to improve the standard for Fox company. It reminded me when Bravo Company started our weekly uniform inspections and Captain Hollingsworth explained the broken window theory to the Marines. If all the little things are policed and taken care of, the big things will fall into place. They were moving to a new spot and once they had reached their destination the Marines were really tired and could’ve waited to dig their holes until the next day but Barber had a feeling that they should do it immediately. He had them do so and get into a horseshoe like formation. It was very important that he did because further into the night when a Marine saw a figure approaching the hill and challenged him, there was no response. So the Marine fired on the figure and hell broke loose on Captain Barber’s Marines. The Chinese had attacked the hill with thousands of Marines. They were soon up close and personal. Some of the Marines were mere feet away from the