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you don’t have to do night patrol!’ When the blood and said,
Lieutenant asked me to go on night patrol ‘That SOB shot
again, I said, ‘I was told I don’t have to do that me!’ I sat down,
because I’m a mechanic.’ He laughed and said, and my tank mate
‘I wondered how long it would take you to get said, ‘Oh my
that.’ God, you’re hit!’ I
wondered if I still
“On January 30, 1970, we were out in a rice had a nose.
paddy. The engine of one of our tanks quit. We
had to hook up two APC’s (Army Personnel “A colonel flew
Carriers) to pull it out. That’s when we got hit in to pick up the
by the Viet Cong. I jumped up on the tank and wounded in a
started firing the machine gun. I noticed a puff chopper and took
of smoke coming from a hooch (a hut or crude us to a MASH
dwelling), so I started firing at that. I heard a unit. While I was
loud slap. About that time, an infantry guy was laying on the
shot in front of me. I started firing my M-60 ground waiting for
machine gun again. I looked down and saw the chopper, my

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