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Originally posted by NousDefionsDoc
You guys know what pisses me off about this whole deal? When I was in the 82nd and later when I got to Group, I had a lot of guys in the Chain of Command and friends that had been in Vietnam, some of them SOG guys, etc that saw a LOT of combat.


Our old SGM (RIP Pete), spent multiple tours over there. I asked him once "Why did you keep going back when you didn't have to?" He said "When you go to yours, where ever it is, come back and we'll talk." Well, Panama wasn't anything like Vietnam, but after it, I went back to see him and he just smiled. Because I knew the answer. I'm sure Colonel Rowe had nightmares, but I never heard of him complaining. I heard he even laughed at the little joke they played on him when he first showed up at his office at SERE. Fast Eddie talked to us about it a lot, to help us learn.

I never knew anyone, NOT ONE, of those guys to carry on about it the way guys like Kerry do.


Like the man said, "War is hell, but combat is a bitch." Just seems to me that a lot of the guys that didn't see much combat do most of the bitchin'.

I'm done now.

I kept going back, because I knew I was needed to do a job which I figured I was uniquely qualified for (don't know why I figured I was the best gun pilot out there, but I did), I also figured that every NVA/VC I planted was one more who was not going to kill another young American serving their country.

Terry