Shook, Philip, “Shook, Philip (Interview outline and video), 2010,” Digital Collections, accessed February 16, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29537.
Philip Shook was drafted into the Army in 1964. He spent six months in Vietnam in a small base camp at Phuoc Vinh north of Saigon. His main duty as a soldier was to go out on search and destroy missions on helicopters. He was responsible for calling in airstrikes and artillery fire.