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#1 I was excited to be heading to Vietnam, where I would be able to find answers to my many questions about war and my role in it. I was surprised at the number of lights below. I had always thought that a war zone would be blacked out, but the jewels of lights spread haphazardly through the dark.
#2 I was waiting with my duffle bag and flight bag at the airport, long before transportation arrived to take us to the camp. Vietnamese were everywhere, on the roads and in the camp. They were in places I thought would be taboo on a military base.
#3 I was assigned to the supply sergeant for my equipment. He gave me two sets of jungle fatigues, olive-drab underwear, a towel, and a M-16 rifle with magazines. He told me to stuff all of my other junk into my duffle bag.
#4 I was transferred to the Third Brigade of the Fourth Division, located in Due Pho, Vietnam. The camp was fully developed to the west, and more units were assigned areas in a steadily encroaching circle around to the east side, toward the sea.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	06 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669380542
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

I was excited to be heading to Vietnam, where I would be able to find answers to my many questions about war and my role in it. I was surprised at the number of lights below. I had always thought that a war zone would be blacked out, but the jewels of lights spread haphazardly through the dark.

#2

I was waiting with my duffle bag and flight bag at the airport, long before transportation arrived to take us to the camp. Vietnamese were everywhere, on the roads and in the camp. They were in places I thought would be taboo on a military base.

#3

I was assigned to the supply sergeant for my equipment. He gave me two sets of jungle fatigues, olive-drab underwear, a towel, and a M-16 rifle with magazines. He told me to stuff all of my other junk into my duffle bag.

#4

I was transferred to the Third Brigade of the Fourth Division, located in Due Pho, Vietnam. The camp was fully developed to the west, and more units were assigned areas in a steadily encroaching circle around to the east side, toward the sea.

#5

The company area was L-shaped. Out beyond the top of the L were the bunkers and the barbed wire. Beyond that, rice paddies ran to the low sand dunes along the ocean. The company clerks were happy to tell me all about the best damn outfit in Nam.

#6

I was in an actual war zone, and the sounds of mortars, 105 recoiless rifle, and artillery guns occasionally firing a round were strange and frightening. I lay down again, unable to sleep because of the sounds of mortars and artillery.

#7

The idea was to fire H and I rounds outside the perimeters at night, which would alert the enemy that Americans were nearby. With a little luck, one of those shells would surprise the enemy by dropping unexpectedly on the trail or clearing at the same time he was there.

#8

The Huey was a helicopter used for transport of supplies and men. It had a pilot, co-pilot, crew chief, and the two door gunners. It allowed the slick to carry six fully equipped infantrymen into an LZ.

#9

I was sent to help the Americans in their push north through the hills. I followed Sergeant Schaldenbrand and his radio operator, Mann, as they led me through the jungle. The aftershave lotion I had used that morning was an obvious lure to every mosquito within a hundred meters.

#10

I was assigned to the First Platoon, led by Lieutenant Smart. The company was located on the next low hill to the north of us, and Charlie Company was nearby. The enemy was all around us, in small units of snipers and attack groups. I did not believe it.

#11

I was stunned when I heard the sound of a BAR being fired near me. Two of my fellow soldiers were badly wounded. I felt the odd sensation of willing my soul upward to assist the chopper crew coming for my fellow soldiers.

#12

I was assigned to a search-and-destroy mission, which meant we searched all the hootches we found and then burned them down. The few Vietnamese we found in the area were women, children, and old men who had been left behind. We didn’t harm the people, but we destroyed all the dwellings.

#13

I saw the face of the enemy for the first time when I was sent to destroy a machine-gun nest. The young soldier was riddled with bullets, and his green combat-uniformed body was riddled with bullets.

#14

During a search-and-destroy mission, the Third Platoon was moving toward a small hill when they were attacked by the enemy. Four or five men in line behind the point dropped to the ground in a reflex motion, then jumped up to run forward.

#15

The author was assigned as platoon leader of the First Platoon of Delta Company, the same platoon he had been with as an observer on the operation. After sixteen days in-country, he had finally reached the slot where the army needed him.

#16

The most important men in a platoon were the lieutenant and the radio operator, or RTO.