European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sitting in on a Bull session in Viet Nam stftpes3 Magazine everyone a professional the Day i left for Viet Nam i had a baby daughter Logan in a professional Kubi a staff writer the was the oldest and Wisest in the to had seen three and outranked everyone else sitting around the Bunker in Viet so when the subject got on to Donald cleared his Throat with you cant Tell How youre Gonna get and Ive seen pm get it in plenty of ways in this and the big in a professional and the army a Good life if you dont get you got to be fatalistic about but then looking at some of the like the labor Day weekend Back in the they do up More people then than we do in a couple of months Over i dont know which la defensive driving or fighting from a Fox Raymond two years in the army and at feet 1 by far the biggest Man had his say i guess everyone a professional As tone As Hes Over if youre not a professional youre not going the Way i look at trying to in going out there to get Hes not Boom get in a much better Man than he the voice of sgt Douglas Warden of Cut through the afternoon air youre Gonna get it time when that sergeant got hit i was in front of missed me completely and hit they we rent aiming at anyone in its not the Bullet with your name on it you Havett worry its the one marked to whom it May they were men of the 1st co at lad sch 1st and Syi iad bunkers protect an Engineer battalion patting Dawn n new now it wac late the men were Dong on a lightly wooded with robber not far from Ben cat in South Viet for the moment then was nothing to do except wait for Enow soldiers from time they started a Bull of things bade of i was there with them with a tape recorder As they Warden what about the squad Leader the other Day who everyone he got killed and everyone Felt renumber now he used to holler a 1966 be had Strong lungs but then was the Type of Man who got easily got easily there he going Down Thunder Road in a track minding is own business when Bam he gels bit with a it just shows it Doest pay to get excited about Lynsky like they maintain your Viet the Only place in the world you gotta Peep and see an Eye it might be an you just gotta keep see what you with the subject of death so close to every Man there followed a discussion of whether the whole business was Worth Logan i dont know if we have the they Way were doing it ill leave that portion of it to the bigger brains than mine Back i dont know whether this is the right answer or Warden everyone got their own opinions on How things can be done but if they were so Good they be up there with the generals and the Logan opinions Are like just about everyone got ill leave it to the big wheels and Hope they come up with the right jul sky we should definitely be we got Slop the communists this is our we cant go Back or Lam Lynsky we cant lose face if we Stop or pull out it will make Ameri Ca look like a All those countries we say we Are Gonna in afraid wed just turn around on them Logan we got some friends Australia seems to be doing All so do the new sealanders and the Linsky we need some Logan id like to see some chinese nationalists Over the West Ger mans Are sending a Hospital but id rather see a battalion than a Hospital id like to see More nations Over weve been giving All these i think we could stand a bit of help Here right Lynsky and lets get some of those Vale talk protesters Over lets get them filling the crack of a Bullet echoed through the Trees Linsky somebody Logan steel pot 4 Raymond from a father of began reflecting on the personal aspects of being in Viet i dream about cause that a there All the time i dream about the and the kids jumping into bed with us at four in the that can give you quite a the Day i left for Viet Nam i had a baby Daugh Ter i want to see i want to see Logan my family Doest like me being Over Here one they seem to be holding up pretty judging from the but they constantly want me those letters Are a great morale i get a letter every single Lynsky none of us wanted to come Over did we not one Man in die whole 42 of i didst want to come nobody wanted to but were Here we just got to do the Best Job we possibly Warden i was worrying about am ing Over Here 11 years ago when i was with the marines in they said then wed be Here some so i finally wound up it took 11 but Here i Richard a downy cheeked 19yearold from chimed my Mother want too hot on me coming Over i have a younger brother with Ike Hist airborne division Over i volunteered for Viet Nam and All my buddies thought i was i did we ail got drank that night so i could forget Linsky All your buddies will get a Chance to do their piece Joseph a husky machine gunner and a father of one from said my wife been taking it she was kind of nervous at but its my that Why in Max Stanback of Baltimore had been with the outfit just two he was i was i had just bought my self a new just starting to Settle then a paper came in the greetings from the armed they said most of us were going to alas then we came to Viet first i was scared in a but since i been hero i i mean in still Logan had lost most of his previous squad to Viet Cong mines and he got on to the subject of the Logan has been u years in the is and comes from White theres sure been n great change in we used to react against sniper fire by deploying n squad and Maneu vering against that we dont do that anymore because often Charlie win snipe at us Only to draw us into his mines and when we get fire now we return it and Call in mortars and artillery to flush Charlie out we find this better than Standard fire and Linsky i thought Viet Nam would be a Little harder in some respects and easier in i thought we would be out in the Field and the fighting a lot and that wed have a front Here you have no no no flanks or but i never thought it would be this we were told it would be but this Sun will take it will take everything right out of and the that and the that is some thing How we look Forward to our it keeps everyone the thought of that cold and the the stars and stripes Warden those those Ukia men Are pretty Good they get Good intelligence about they know where we Are Ive been shot at by plenty of yet i Haven seen Logan the Type of War they Are they Are very Good its guerrilla they will not meet Force with not the ones weve seen whenever they have done that Treyve gotten i dont think Thyre much Good As conventional but As there Lynsky i think we Are much bet Ter soldiers than they an american Soldier is a much better hell always and Hes not afraid to get up and go get he Doest give a Damn Hes got a lot of Logan Hes got a lot of Faith in his weve got Charlie outgunned far As firepower we just get up and holler and scream and go after them and they just break they seem confused by the aggression Walinsky one Day going up to Baa remember we hit that sniper and a machine we hit the ground first and then All of a sudden we All got up and started running at we got the and the Man with the machine he just dropped it and look off on i 11