An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era -- Beth Bailey, Hardcover Distribution Solutions The cover design was created

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An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era -- Beth Bailey, Hardcover Distribution Solutions The cover design was createdBy the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of "same mud, same blood" were over, and a new generation of Black GIs had