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In 1970, I attended the MATA course at Ft. Bragg with an additional 12 weeks of Vietnamese Language training at Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, TX.
The language training was designed to get the students to a Level 1 proficiency. All of the students were senior N.C.O.s including 3 Marine Corps MSGs except for an intelligence E-5 and me (E-6).
Every night we would cross the border to Juarez for "The mid-night Bull Fights". Wayson (the E-5) and I would get together an hour before class and memorize the days' dialog and then we would sit separately. When the teacher called for volunteers we would both get up and before she could assign rolls we would begin reciting the dialog.
We did a really crappy job of recitation but we both got good marks because we volunteered.
We were very surprised at the end of the course to score level 2s on our proficiency exams. The cadre wanted to keep us around for another week to get us to reveal how we were able to out do the course goals but MACV wouldn't spare either of us.\
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