By Gordon L. Rottman
This booklet tells the compelling tale of the typical US infantryman in Vietnam. starting with conscription, enlistment, uncomplicated education, and complex person education on the defense force Induction middle at citadel Polk (the notorious ''Tigerland''), it is going directly to discover the day by day realities of provider in Vietnam, from regimen projects on the firebase to search-and-destroy missions, rocket assaults, and firefights within the box. Weaponry, garments, and gear are all defined and proven in specific colour plates.
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So when they finally started letting you out, guys would start drinking beer. These were guys from all over Fort Riley, not just our company. com Drop And Give Me 20 on television. I remember that a couple of us who were down there from my platoon kind of grabbing each other and making sure that we got the heck out of there. We all ended up in the girls’ bathroom and ended up jumping out the windows of the bathroom. One of the girls who was there to perform was there too, and we helped her get out.
He looked at them and said, “You ain’t going to do nothing to these boys. I’ve been waiting for someone to escape from that place. That is what we are training them for! ” So he patted us on the backs and said good job, and that was the end of that deal. I told Lieutenant Colonel Tutwiler that if anybody ever captured me in Vietnam they had better kill me, ’cause I ain’t never being locked up again. One day Henry Burleson threw a cigarette on the ground, and Lieutenant Black saw him. ” So they made Burleson dig a hole 2 feet wide, 3 feet long, and as deep as he could dig it.
My daddy hadn’t, but all of my uncles had. I figured this was something you do. It was part of your responsibilities. And they had told me about all of these foreign places and foreign people and all that. And to me it was a grand adventure. ” And I thought well, good, maybe I can get drafted, and a few months later I did. I loved it. I faced it as a big adventure, and I thought it was a good deal all the way around. Excited about the military, I really didn’t know I was going to go to Vietnam.