Well i do not know how it went up there the first night , but i can tell you this . It was no picnic . we had just left my buddy's houch and headed for the NCO club when the first rounds started coming in and My buddy Charlie's houch took the first round . The blast knocked us to the ground and as fast as we went down we were both back up on a dead run for any hole or bunker we could find. The rounds were coming down like rain . He and i dove into the slot trench of one of the 4.2 mortor pits and spent the night passen off rounds . we did not have any thing with us as there was a cease fire so they told us and so we had no WORK clothes on and no weapons with us . Shower shoes and cut off navy dungerees was NOT the dress for the evening . when the sun came up everything stopped and he and i headed for our Boston Wailer to get back out to the ships . Once we got out on the river our SHIP was GONE . All we saw was the vary top of the USS ASKARA heading west up river . They had up and pulled out and we either had to try and cautch up or be left behind . So we put that little 18 foot boat in the middle of the river and leaned on the throttles . They had a ten to twelve mile head start and with a mind blowing top speed of around 13-15 MPH and our 45 MPH speed it took foreven to get up to them . at times we were taking fire from the river banks as you could see the rounds dancing off the water. the next fun thing was trying to fight the wakes off them ships and get up behind the one we were on . we ended up at Vinlong and end up going in to retake the town that evening. That was the start of a vary long fight that we got vary little down time . even after everything was retaken they had us out doing stuff . I was still out in the bush and missed my flight home in May . we were working dark and when we got to a more saquire spot we called in for a resupply drop and the CO asked me if i knew what day it was . I told him that it was another hot stinking day in the bush and we needed FOOD water and ammo . He asked me again and i said no have no idea , he then told me that my fredom bird left yesterday with out me . All i told him was GET ME OUT OF HERE . We had to hoof it 15 more clicks before they could send in the chopper due to some stupid little line on some dumb map. Got the VIP treatment as he sent his flyen EGG to get me out first then the team . Back to Dong Tam for a shower chow then off to Long Ben to stat out prosessing Sigon then back to Dong Tam for the party and as luck would have it They mortored us , my last night in the Nam and they shelled us not once but twice . Next morning i had breakfast with the guys and back on the C O flyen Egg back up to tongsunute (SP) and set down on the tarmat next to a D C 10 with it's engines running and waiting for me , ground crew loaded my bags into the plane i gave some E 5 Airman my AK 47 and vest and i was out of there . I ended up on a Champain flight out of country the lowest ranking man other them was a Major . sure glad the Stwerests were FRIENDLY and Cute and that the bar was open as soon as the wheels were up. You know the old sayen RHIP.
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