Shawn Ryan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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We keep having missions like this.
I had a 22-man team.
We had put two of our recon teams together because we were going after a group of NVA that had a group of American prisoners that they were trying to take through Malouse into North Vietnam, and we were trying to stop them.
And we had stopped for an RON.
We had 22 people.
So it was a circle almost as big as this room in here.
And they were running arm's length apart.
I was in the center with my assistant team leader.
And it was about 2130.
It was dark.
You couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
And I was really tired.
My eyes were starting to roll back in my head.
I was leaning against a tree.
And I heard a twig break.
And I opened my eyes and I was thinking to myself, that sounded like a twig break inside the perimeter.
And then I heard another one.
And I realized someone was inside our perimeter and was coming directly toward me.
I'm laying back.
I have a car 15 laying across my lap.