Dale Hanson
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Yeah.
He was doing his recon.
He caught them doing PT on a riverbank.
and he just called in the airstrikes and stuff and just nailed them, you know?
But Dorney was...
not only was a team leader, but he was going to teach me everything he knew.
I was going to be a sponge.
And he wound up being my team leader, my father figure, my mentor, and my friend.
And after the war, I would see him in Oregon.
Just a wonderful man, a great man.
And he retired after, I don't know, 25 years or so in the military.
How big was your team?
Say again?
How big was your team?
There were three Americans and I think we had, I think it was five or six in DIJ.
And my team was a little bit unique because most of mine were Chinese.
So Chinese and Vietnamese.
And we started to lose some wounds.
So we were down to like six and three.
Damn.