Dale Hanson

We tried to make our way back to an LZ.

And lessons learned, too, because now I'm going to give the major his information.

He's going to drop the big bombs, you know, all that, assuming his headquarters will let him.

But as I'm going back, just a lesson learned as I'm going back and trying to lead my people to a place where we can pick up.

I find an LZ.

And it's actually a little bit too big.

It's too enticing.

It's too big.

But they said that they would not pick us up in any LZ unless we had recon all the way around it.

These are big LZs.

I said, this is crazy.

By the time I worked my way all the way around, what's to say somebody didn't go where we started from?

It was crazy.

And it was an hourglass-shaped LZ.

So it was wide on the two ends and narrow in the middle.

And I thought the best I can do is to set up right in the middle of it where I can watch both hemispheres and call in for my extraction.

And as I'm there, all of a sudden, I see movement across the hourglass from me.

And it's NVA, big-time movement, company or battalion, big-time coming across.

And

I could read their mind almost.