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Colonel John T. Hoffman, USA, Retired, an award winner author, entered the Army in 1969, upon graduating from Georgetown University, and served in South Vietnam in 1971-72 as a combat helicopter pilot, flying a variety of aircraft. During his career, he served many assignments on active duty and in the North Carolina National Guard, including anti-terrorism, intelligence, civil-military, and command positions. Col. Hoffman retired in 2000. After the events of September 11, 2001, Col. Hoffman accepted a position in the National Infrastructure Protection Center within the FBI and later within the US Department of Homeland Security where he helped reduce risks to our critical national infrastructures from terrorism, cyberattack, and natural disasters.
Literary Awards for The Saigon Guns:
1. Reader Views Five Start Book Award and the Gold Award for History 2023
2. Firebird Award Non-Fiction Winner for Summer of 2023
3. Firebird Best Cover award for Non-Fiction for 2023
4. 2023 Literary Titan Non-fiction Book Award Winner
5. PenCraft Non Fiction – War Genre winner in the 2023, and the PenCraft Seasonal Book Award 2023 Summer Competition.
6. The 2024 Independent Press Award as a Distinguished Favorite.
7. 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards 1st Place in the Military and Front Line Service to Others Category
Several members of the 48th AHC from 1972 in South Vietnam have asked me to offer a comment on Scott Barnes negative review of The Saigon Guns. I will offer the following as context to his review.
Scott and I only overlapped in the 48th AHC Blue Stars for a matter of weeks. His recollections and notes, whatever they are, would clearly differ from my own. He was not involved in most of the operations in which I participated in the 48th AHC. Further, he was not in the 203rd ASHC (Chinook), nor in F Troop, 8th Cav Blue Ghost when I was assigned to those units. So, he would have no knowledge of my activities as a Chinook Pilot or as Blue Ghost Blue in F/8 Cav.
Lastly, when the U.S. Department of Defense finally approved my manuscript for publication; they stipulated that the book must be a first-person account that reflected only my views and recollections of that time period in South Vietnam. They also stipulated that I was to limit use of names of others in the three units in which I served. As I clearly state in the book, this is a narrative of my experience during the war in South Vietnam. If Mr. Barnes wishes to write about his own experience while serving in South Vietnam, I would encourage him to do so.
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