Court-Martial of Corporal Nutting

John Nutting is nineteen years old in 1966. Raised in small-town Idaho, to a family that could trace its military roots back to the Revolutionary War, Nutting knows he’s going to fight the war as a Marine. On the day of his high school graduation, he swears into the US Marine Corps and boards the plane to boot camp.

All too soon he’s in the jungle, a greenhorn member of “F” Company, 2nd Battalion, ...