Ed Gaydos was not a hero. Shipped off to Vietnam in 1970, he did not capture a single enemy soldier or single-handedly dismantle the Ho Chi Minh trail. He sat on a remote patch of sand behind barbed wire with a bunch of teenagers, dodging incoming mortars, battling insects and holding back an avalanche of paperwork....

Surplus: The Long Arm of Vietnam is a companion to Ed Gaydos's debut memoir, Seven in a Jeep: A Memoir of the Vietnam War.Surplus continues Ed Gaydos's story after he returned from the Vietnam War in 1971.These are the lessons that shaped his life as a person, a father and a successful executive. ...