Doug Bradley is a Vietnam veteran from Madison, Wisconsin, who has written extensively about his Vietnam, and post-Vietnam, experiences. Following graduation from college, Doug was drafted into the U.S. Army in March 1970 and served as an information specialist (journalist) at the Army Hometown News Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and the U.S. Army Republic of Vietnam (USARV) headquarters near Saigon. Following discharge and graduate school, Doug relocated to Madison in 1974, where he helped establish Vets House, a storefront, community-based service center for Vietnam-era veterans.
A member of the Deadly Writers Patrol, Doug is the author of DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle and co-author (with Craig Werner) of We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, which Rolling Stone magazine named “the best music book of 2015.”