Chester Wong


Biography

Chester Wong attended West Point, and served in the United States Army as an Armor and Special Forces officer while based in Korea and Japan, respectively. He served and deployed in four combat tours to Iraq and the Philippines, and received several medals for his accomplishments, including two Bronze Star Medals. Wong also worked extensively throughout Southeast Asia and the Middle East in special operations missions, and has lived in ten countries since leaving California. He was also selected for early promotion to major prior to a voluntary and honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. Yellow Green Beret is his first book.

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Books

Yellow Green Beret : Stories of an Asian American Stumbling around U.S. Army Special Forces    by Chester Wong
Price: $2.99 USD. 132180 words. Published on November 17, 2011. Nonfiction.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Forget slapstick comedy, when it comes to U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Chester Wong writing his memoir, it’s more about chopstick humor—and random acts of hilarity. With a raucously comic flare and razor-sharp wit, this engaging and often dramatic military memoir describes what it was like to be an Asian American officer in the war-time U.S. Army Special Forces.

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