Dale Hanson

such a confidence in his demeanor and stuff.

He knew what he was doing, and I was confident he knew what he was doing, and we're going to do this.

Boy, I did maybe three with Donnie.

I think the one that kind of stands out, but I don't know if it was the first one, was Ben Het was under siege.

The communists, of course, would siege major places like the French Dien Bien Phu.

That broke their back.

It was like they had no more will to fight and so forth.

They tried to do the same thing to the Americans.

And of course, Tet Offensive was a disaster, unless you looked at the news.

Then they made it as, oh, they attacked 200 places in Vietnam.

And what they don't say is they lost every one.

But I was with Dhoni, and we were doing a reconnaissance thing on the Bendhat.

We were way behind the lines.

And our thing was to gather intelligence.

And our motto that people don't mention to you is that break contact and continue mission.

A lot of times people get in contact and then they want to get out.

And the real motto in SOG is you break contact and then you continue mission.

So you break contact, you avoid the enemy and all this stuff and you get some distance between you and continue the mission, you know.

with Dhoni, and there were enemy everywhere, just totally, just saturated.

And they were all going toward Bandhat, and the big siege was going on.