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Woody and Wilson on a fire base near the eastern edge of the A Shau Valley

Woody with Wilson from Baltimore.  In this post there is a picture of Wilson and I at one of the fire bases that overlooked the A Shau Valley.   I believe Wilson was from Baltimore.  He was great guy...

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Hot LZ

Another air-assault into the jungles of Vietnam. Usually when we were dropped at an LZ the pilots would touch the skids of the helicopters on the ground.  Occasionally we would be dropped at an LZ that...

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The story about the soldier who just walked off into the jungle

While our platoon was stationed at Firebase Long we heard a story of a soldier who just walked away from a firebase and disappeared into the jungle.   The story was that he didn’t take his weapon or...

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Fishing with a machete

Our platoon was on patrol in the high northern mountains of South Vietnam.  Our patrol was crossing a large stream, that at the time wasn’t very deep, with many rocks exposed above the water.  It was...

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Refusing to fire M-16 during weapons inspection and target practice

While on stand down I was assigned to re-qualify men on the proper use of and proficiency with their M-16 rifles.  After re-qualifying several men, a man came to the firing range line and stated that...

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