{"id":645,"date":"2022-08-30T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/?p=645"},"modified":"2022-08-30T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:02:08","slug":"bob-worthington-wins-national-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/bob-worthington-wins-national-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Worthington Wins National Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Las Cruces Writers is thrilled to announce that our very own Bob Worthington<\/a> has won another book award for his new book, Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat<\/a><\/em>. Below is the official press release. Congrats to Bob!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAS CRUCES VETERAN & AUTHOR WINS NATIONAL AWARD FOR
SECOND VIETNAM BOOK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAS CRUCES, NM \u2014 Las Cruces resident, writer, and Army veteran Dr. Bob Worthington\u2019s book \u201cFighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat\u201d has been awarded a silver medal from the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA). The second book of Dr. Worthington\u2019s Vietnam military trilogy, the award was announced on August 27, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MWSA President Bob Doerr said that Dr. Worthington\u2019s book earned the silver medal in the memoir\/biography category after scoring \u201chigh enough in our rigorous evaluation process to win a medal recognizing (his) achievement.\u201d Dr. Worthington\u2019s \u201cFighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat\u201d was recognized for the writing, editing, and its publication. \u201c(He) should be very proud of (his) accomplishment,\u201d Doerr said. \u201cWe certainly are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat\u201d is the follow up to Worthington\u2019s previous book, \u201cUnder Fire with the ARVN Infantry,\u201d which was awarded a national award for Excellence in Literature by the Military Writers Society of America. The author\u2019s final book in the trilogy, \u201cThe Making of an Army Psychologist,\u201d is scheduled for publication on September 26, 2022. All these books are published by McFarland & Company, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worthington is a multiple award-winning writer with over 2,600 publications having featured his work. He is a member of the Las Cruces Writers Group and has another anthology of military tales titled \u201cUntold Stories\u201d available on Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a retired U.S. Army officer with 15 years in the infantry and a decade as an Army clinical psychologist, Worthington was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, seven decorations for valor, the Purple Heart, the Air Medal, and several awards for meritorious service. He later went on to become a profession at the New Mexico State University Department of Journalism and Mass Communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about Dr. Bob Worthington and his writing, please visit his website at www.BobWorthingtonWriter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(For additional information, contact Jessica Mullen @ 575-524-8118)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Las Cruces Writers is thrilled to announce that our very own Bob Worthington has won another book award for his new book, Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat. Below is the official press release. Congrats to Bob! LAS CRUCES VETERAN & AUTHOR WINS NATIONAL AWARD FORSECOND VIETNAM BOOK LAS CRUCES, NM \u2014 Las Cruces…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,119,90,17,22],"tags":[167,34,80,168],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-release","category-contest","category-members","category-press","category-prize","tag-award","tag-bob-worthington","tag-military-writers-society-of-america","tag-silver-medal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdvZx1-ap","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}