Dale Hanson

It's like, you're never at ease among the enlisted swine.

And anyway, I says, sir, we got a mission.

We're going in the same place.

And I passed the dispensary.

And I says, we can take a medic with us.

And he looks at me.

And he stands ramrod straight.

And he says, Sergeant Hanson, you're messing with my war machine.

It's just crazy.

Damn.

But it was interesting stuff.

It was just a crazy mission, difficult mission, lots to find.

And there was a place in that mission, too, where Vietnamization was going strong.

That's years and years before your military, but...

Americans wanted Americans out, but we didn't want to abandon the South Vietnamese, so they had Vietnamization more gradually.

We would teach them and they would take over our jobs and stuff and so forth, and then leave them at least capable of

doing the missions and so forth.

Well, a lot of the Vietnamization was really good.

Now, there were three of us, plus the guy on the mortars, four of us with this company.

And we find this huge complex.