That morning we took our first 10 mile hike together around the inside of the Rosemary’s Point perimeter and along the beach and over the rocks. We had fun. Well, I did. That afternoon, I cleared it with Chu Lai Defense Command to do small arms familiarization firing down on the beach into a sand dune. I brought along ten 1160 round cases of 556 ball and we fired all afternoon. The surfers were not happy about the noise or the ricochets. Over the following ten days, without a day off, we went...

The plan called for five of us, (Myself, George More, Harold Sessions, Dana Ford and Rico Rodriguez) to depart at 0400 tomorrow from the Rosemary’s Point helipad on a Huey slick from 122nd Avn. We will fly out to the drop point, about an hour away, which will put us on the ground about 8 clicks from the objective. We will then have two days and nights to move up, observe and execute the operation, leaving one day for making it to one of three selected pick up points. I go around the platoon a...

The plan called for five of us, (Myself, George, More, Harold Sessions, Dana Ford and Rico Rodriguez) to depart at 0400 tomorrow from the Rosemary’s Point helipad on a Huey slick from 122nd Avn. We will fly out to the drop point, about an hour away, which will put us on the ground about 8 clicks from the objective. We will then have two days and nights to move up, observe and execute the operation, leaving one day for making it to one of three selected pick up points. I go around the platoon ...