Dale Hanson

uh yeah i i think that's about it just it has to be significant for the recon team to pass it over because when the sig when the recon team gets pulled out they may be compromised simply because of the helicopter and all that how how i'm just curious so how i'm trying to i'm just trying to figure out what the dynamic is between the the hatchet or mic force to the song unit i mean would this be

Top secret, you knew your own mission, that's it.

So if you were captured and tortured, that's all you can tell them.

Yeah, so, yeah, for the most part, you wouldn't know what the next team is doing.

Right.

Yeah, they're partisan.

They are partisan.

Yeah, we had a reaction force, different names for it, but we had one in the compound.

Okay, so they were very in tune with what you guys were doing.

Yeah, yeah.

They could be.

You know, like SOG recon people, they would like to have six or seven, like in CCC, my area, they would like to have six or seven teams on the ground all the time.

Okay.

So it's possible all of them can be in trouble, and that happened, and I wrote about it in the book.

And then there will be a company as well.

Now, if a company...

platoon gets in trouble and a recon team gets in trouble they're more vulnerable because of their small size so air action would be deferred to the small one or the most vulnerable one with you know i suppose a platoon with half casualties or something would would get some precedence gotcha yeah gotcha well dale let's take a break okay when we come back we'll talk about leaving vietnam and coming home

I think World War II people had parades, you know, and people were excited.

When we come home, it was in the matrix of dissatisfaction and hatred and things like that.

And I think people coming back from the war