Review: Vietnam
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2014
Your experience in the 101st was so much different than mine. Eight of us who was drafted joined the 2/501 B company April 1st, 1968. The company was so short of men from combat that they were sent to a place up north next to the coast to wait for replacements. We filled sandbags for two weeks, everyday all day. We went on ambush one a squad of men. We were fired upon before we could even get to our position, so returned to base. We left there to go help block a village full of NVA.  We spent the next six months cleaning out pockets of NVA.  We spent 30 to 45 days sweeping an area of activity cleaning them out of villages and bunker complexes in the jungle.  We only got two or three days of getting new clothes, showers, shave, etc.  Then we went back out for another 30 to 45 days.  It was a terrible time.  By six months there was two of us left out of the eight of us.  Most were killed walking point as was my job.  I didn't even receive an E-3 rank that was mandatory in Vietnam to car a weapon.  The 101st sucks.