Post by tcoop on Apr 24, 2003 10:45:25 GMT -5
I was in commo, it allowed me to see all aspects of Vietnam. My time in-country saw everything from cruising the streets of Saigon to laying in the mud in the bush, praying that God let me see the next moment. The ups and downs were surrealistic. I remember early days in Dau Tieng where incoming mortars freaked me out. As time went by, I actually slept through attacks. That is, until they started hitting us with rockets around Tet. When I got short, anything became "scary". Shadows became VC crawling through the wire. When I had 2 weeks to go, they kicked me off the bunker line and sent me on convoys to Tay Ninh and Saigon. My paranoia actually got me in trouble with MPs. "Thou shall not carry firearms into bars". Who knew, I was a "boonie rat"?