Las Cruces author receives military writers silver medal

Las Cruces writer Bob Worthington’s book “Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat” has been awarded a silver medal by the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA), Wilson Binkley Advertising and Marketing said in a news release. The book is the second in Worthington’s Vietnam military trilogy. The award was announced Aug. 27.

Worthington’s book earned the silver medal in the memoir/biography category.

In the book, Worthington describes his second tour in Vietnam as some of the fiercest fighting of the war and tells of his experiences training South Vietnamese commandos to conduct raids in the swamps south of Saigon.

“Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat” is the follow up to “Under Fire with the ARVN Infantry,” for which Worthington received an MWSA national award for excellence. His final book in the trilogy, “The Making of an Army Psychologist,” is scheduled for publication this month. All three books are published by McFarland & Company, Inc.

Worthington, who is a member of the Las Cruces Writers Group, has another anthology of military tales titled “Untold Stories” available on Amazon.

A retired U.S. Army officer with 15 years of experience in the infantry and a decade as an Army clinical psychologist, Worthington was awarded the combat infantryman badge, seven decorations for valor, a Purple Heart, the Air Medal and several awards for meritorious service. He later was a professor in the New Mexico State University Department of Journalism and Mass Communications.

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