a-c a cerebral type guy but you know his dad Marine Corps and he decided you know what okay I'm going to Marine corner this is now NUMBER_TOKEN I believe should he have chosen the Air Force's that were saying you know the Air Force does incredible things as well yeah but he chose the Marine Corps like his dad and so he goes to Marine Corps and you know he's one of these guys that does the basic school or an officer cannon school in the basic school so he's whatever nine months or something like that gets twenty days leaving the knees of platoon commander in Vietnam Wow between commander in Vietnam that fast yeah that fast because of because of who he was or because of his abilities because the Vietnam War oh it does the Vietnam War was like okay guess what we need we need junior officers why do we need junior officers because our junior officers are getting wounded and killed at a very high rate so he goes he ends up in Vietnam it's awful as he describes what's going on they're going out there's three areas that they're rotating through and one of the areas that they rotate through every time they go into this area they lose a guy or they get a guy wounded and then they never see the enemy then I'm gonna see the enemy so it'd be me saying hey I want you to go to Whole Foods Whole Foods and Vaughn's and Trader Joe's and every time you go to Trader Joe's you're gonna lose like a body part and you don't even know why look like you wouldn't want to do that anymore right yeah these guys are doing that and they're doing that and they're losing guys and they're losing guys like this coochie tunnels under the produce it's um it's just yeah something like that I guess so eventually he he ends up there getting a big going this big operation to try and clean out that area he gets in contact with the enemy he's running back to his guys and as he's running back he hits a booby track ie D and it just it just brutalizes him loses a leg loses a other leg at the hip and it loses bunch of hands and he's just a disaster they don't think he's gonna live he holds on he makes it back to America and it goes through his trials and by the way his wife was pregnant at the time so he comes home she has the baby and you know he you know at one point in the book he says he's recovering it takes years to recover years and they're giving him prosthetic and the prosthetics that you can see when they're talent when he's talking about the prospects like the prosthetics we have now are much more advanced this thing is like leather strap around his torso and he can only walk on flat surfaces and find that he just can't do it but you know he can't he can't even wipe himself right he can't because of the way his hands are deformed and it's just awful it's awful and you know meanwhile his dad was a hero was a hero and his his dad when his dad sees him like he's describing his dad as just he can't his dad can't even talk his dad is
NO_SEGMENT_TOKEN