Back In Nam
Back in Nam
By: Bill Marriott
Any story that starts with the phrase "back in nam" arouses vivid pictures of helicopters and napalm. And this one is no different, now to give you an idea of the country the people were nice except for the Vietcong, who were willing to do anything to stop you. The drugs there were cheap, a bag of reefer, and a bag is a black trash bag, ran about twenty dollars. In a troop, about eight to ten guys, one had to carry a mine detector. This weighed about twenty-eight pounds and was a quick was to get a backache after a thirty-clik hike, so we traded off. There were only seven guys in my troop as frank got blow up from a frag the day before. Now that you have an idea of the circumstances we were in a trail on the Mekong Delta going to Saigon, or so we thought.
It was a sunny day but still wet from the day before and we knew there was a group of Vietcong guerillas a few cliks up the trail, we called them gooks, so we decided to huddle down for a......
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