Shawn Ryan

He made a mistake and we came in, we went up the mountainside and halfway up the mountain, there was this little knoll.

He touched down on the knoll instead of going all the way up.

But we got out and there was a lot of elephant grass.

So we, right there in the elephant grass, he took off and the elephant grass was thick.

Again, it's 10 to 12 feet.

to the south and to the west, and even to the northwest, it was so steep we couldn't go anywhere.

So Phuc led off to the east.

He's our point man.

And with Bubba Mae, Lynn Black was there with us.

And then we had Tuan, Phuc, and Hap.

And so we're there moving out.

And within a half hour or less, we made contact, light contact with the NVA.

So we came back and we're back on that little knoll.

And Lynn and I are talking, I was like, well, the Northeast is the last place that we can go.

And Lynn goes, but there's no activity there.

We don't see anything.

We've had contact here.

And then people started shooting at us from down the hill in the South.

And we were throwing hand grenades.

All of a sudden,