The night tours pumped fear in many hearts including the authors. Luckily he was only sent out a few times unlike the night ambushers or the lurps, the long range recon patrollers who went out night after night for months. To keep the soilders mind sharpe Dexedrine pills where given out , Her didn't see the need for them his adrenalen was enough for him to get through his endeavors. He knew a fort divison alert that had been in serious contact with the Vietcong and survied. Even the men in his unit feared him, they said looking in his eyes were like looking at the sea floor and that they thought he slept with his eyes open.
             To get from one to the other Her loved to fly in the chopper because walking was long , hard, and scary. Not saying that he felt completely safe in the chopper, this was Vietnam, the choppers were more quick. He did say that he got a erie feeling when he thought of the concept of being drop from the chopper in the jungle and watching it take off not knowing if it was your last ride. The second base he mentioned was a fire in the american TAOR that went throught the exstreme National Guard weekend. A drunken and lively colonel that was in command of the base was so comical and under the influence he did not realize that the men were not laughing with him but at him. There were also many young soldiers with old minds whose youth were sucked out from the hardships of war. Their faces were dull and blank with no emotions. Even with the dead like faces of the soldiers u could still point a special force unit lurp out of a crowed, their faces were more distraught.
             After a short while he realized that he was there soely to report the feedback of the war. The 173rd unit held services from Dak to the boots of the dead men were arranged in formation on the ground, it was an old paratrooper tradition. The bodies of the soldiers KIA were tagged, bagged, and shipped back home in the KIA travel Bureau. He fe...