5/21/2023 0 Comments The red platoon![]() ![]() The unwritten rule is a new guy's life isn't worth as much 'cause he hasn't put his time in yet - and they say, if you're gonna get killed in the Nam, it's better to get it in the first few weeks, the logic being you don't suffer that much. It's scary, 'cause nobody tells me how to do anything 'cause I'm new and nobody cares about the new guys. We get up at 5 am, hump all day, camp around four or five, dig a foxhole, eat, then put out an all-night ambush or a three-man listening post in the jungle. A gook could be standing three feet in front of me and I wouldn't know it, I'm so tired. The hardest thing I think I've ever done is go on point three times this week - I don't even know what I'm doing. I hate it already and it's only been a week. Somebody once wrote: ' Hell is the impossibility of reason.' That's what this place feels like. ![]()
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