Dale Hanson

So it was a real gut-wrenching thing to cancel the program.

So anyway, Project Gamma gets canceled.

And then I wind up on a mission.

It's Lima 50.

if a number ends in two digits it's Cambodia if it's a single digit like India six it's Laos so this was in Cambodia and that tribe border area where things were really hectic so this was Lima 50 and we were on this mission and it was just dense with enemy all over the place it just

I couldn't believe how many there were.

My roommate was from Minnesota as well, because it was his team to start with.

As he came back from leave, he took over the team, and then I was there, and Bob Garcia.

was there, and then we had our indigenous people.

And we were sent on this mission to gather intelligence and so forth.

So we're on the mission.

Two or three days is really, really hectic stuff, real thick stuff.

and bumped into some communists.

And one of them was when I lost my fingers on my hand, a whole bunch of them, and we got into a firefight.

There was a lot of them.

I was throwing grenades and we had the M79 grenade on.

I was just really going like crazy and shooting as fast as I could.

Well, anyway, three of them jumped up in front of me.

And the M16 had the 20-round magazine and the 30-round wasn't invented yet.

So I got three NVA soldiers, each of whom have 30 rounds in their magazine,