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We were tresspassing. It would have been bad manners to call in an air strike, especially at night. ; - ) No, our job was to report what we saw. We didn't actually get involved in calling in air strikes and artillery strikes unless we were threatened or unless that was the idea from the get-go. From...

"That photo wasn't taken over the Shire was it?" One night on the Laotian Salient, on my second mission (I was still on probation and hadn't been given a code name yet), our five man team set up a night defensive position on the side of a mountain in the Chaîne Annamitique amidst 200 ft t...

Without opening a huge can of worms here, one of the reasons the army designated LRRP companies as "Ranger" companies in Vietnam was because of the expanded role they wanted long range reconnaissance patrols to play. As "Ranger" companies, Papa Company Ranger and Lima Company Ran...

Of course the real important thing to consider here is that it's "cost effective". I used to hate it when that pesky accountant came around while we were loading our rucks for a five day camping trip out in the A Shau. "OK Sweetnam," he'd bark in consternation, "you know you...

Have you been back to Vietnam, Ripcord?

Which songs? "You're Time is Gonna Come?"

Actually, if we really wanted to irritate the NVA, we'd hire whores in Phu Bai to make cassette tapes, moaning and crooning and reminding the dinks that it had probably been 7 years since any of them had gotten laid.

"Nice pics. Your last mission in the Roung Roung Valley. Now that was a Fucking Fun Place wasn't it." More Rangers died in the Roung Roung Valley than anywhere else in Vietnam. Team Kenya Mission, Roung Roung Valley (I was onboard this one): http://webpages.charter.net/pogomutt/team%20keny...

Yep. Frags were really THE weapon of choice for Rangers in Vietnam.

We had two 1000 watt speakers on that chopper. Sometimes when we got bored, we'd play Led Zeppelin instead of propaganda broadcasts.

Yes. "Mini-frags" they called them. They started showing up in Vietnam early in 1971. I never carried any in the bush when I was with the Ranger Company, but during my second tour, when I worked in Psyops, I carried a box of them on the chopper we used for propaganda broadcasts. We flew ou...

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Welcome. Aviators were my favorite people in Vietnam. All that I knew possessed great courage.

If you can't hit your enemy in the head with a split-finger knuckler, you're too damn far away.

Yep, that's the guy. I sent in some of my own ideas for a beret replacement but the General never got back with me. Obviously the old coot isn't as fashion concious as me.

I'm referring to the photo with four guys. This one (the center photo): http://www.lcompanyranger.com/sweetnam.html The reason it's posted at the K Company Ranger site, is because I was trying to ID the K Company Ranger who came up from the 4th and went out on this mission with me. I was team leader...