Dale Hanson

And so there it was again.

So then we get to an LZ and the communists have got us surrounded.

There's several hundred of them and they figure 600 to a thousand of them.

And we're holding them off big time, as long as we can.

And so we're fighting, we're trying to get airstrikes and all that to get us out.

And it's getting pretty wild.

I went off on one edge to hold up a flank.

They were coming up one flank.

The rest of the guys were on the other end.

And I was shooting as fast as I could, you know, and then aiming and all that kind of a thing.

And one of the guys on the other end, his M16 that wasn't working right, CAR-15,

And so they thought, well, Hansen is so slow.

We need the gun on this side.

We got that.

I got the carbine and so forth.

So I had the carbine and my own rifle and so forth.

So they come by, we need to get your rifle for a while.

We're being overrun.

So like a fool, I give them my rifle and I'm holding them off with this M1 carbine, which is interesting.

And I mentioned it in the book.