Everybody Has A Story: Duck For Dinner After Some Fancy Flying

Vietnam, 1970. Tay Ninh Province. This is the only war story I allow myself to tell civilians because it was so much fun and I like to relive it: I was in the radio/communication division for the Rangers/Long-range Reconnaissance Patrol. One day, my partner and I hitched a helicopter ride to the fire support base with our gear.

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