Dale Hanson

And then he would salute.

I would salute.

He would go over to the club and sit in the same bar stool he always sat in when we weren't going to the field.

And so basically, for six months at least, I had a company all by myself.

And it was great.

They were Montagnier tribesmen.

Loved them.

And it was a reciprocal thing, too.

You could just see the affection that they had as well.

And we had one bad mission.

as a company and um we had 17 firefights and i forget three days or something like that that's a lot of fighting you know 17 firefights and we come back and um uh captain goes to the officers club and first sergeant goes to the bar and then i got the company well anyway i go um uh

someplace around the campus, and they find me, an operations center, and they find me, and they say, Dale, we got a mission for you.

And we just got out.

He says, that mission you were just on, Saigon says was so lucrative, they want you to go back in there.

And so I thought, oh man, we had 17 fireflies.

So on the way to the officer's club to tell the captain so he can take charge, I go by the dispensary and I ask whoever the guy is in charge.

I said, we're going back in a difficult mission.

I said, do you have a medic that I can take with me?

And he said, yeah, so-and-so.

So I find the captain, and he stands at attention.