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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
June 28. 2004 12:00AM
Vietnam vet has worn many hats over years
By Harmony Johnson
Times-News Staff Writer
Capt. Fred Sams talks in his office about Vietnam. (PATRICK SULLIVAN/TIMES-NEWS)
Part of a 12-soldier unit split into two teams, Sams and five other men primarily were responsible for monitoring the movement of the North Vietnamese army and assessing their equipment. They would compile all their information into reports to send back to commanding officers, letting them know which Vietnamese units were active, how many soldiers each unit had and the amount of light or heavy arms each unit carried.
The six-member team usually slept during the day, moving "in stealth mode" at night through hostile territory. They carried out what Sams calls "the sneaky Pete operations," specializing in "very unconventional" guerrilla warfare tactics when they needed to fight.
"A small unit can be put in behind enemy lines and completely disrupt an entire battalion," he explained. "That's what we were trained to do. É They say a 12-man Special Forces team is equivalent to an entire platoon of 120 men."
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ONE STATEMENT cinches it !!! Having really done what he claims to have, I'm here to tell you that if you moved at night, or while it was raining, you were DEAD MEAT !!! First off, it was sooo dark out there, that if you moved a hand or object towards your face at night, you would hit your face without EVER SEEING a thing !!! This was WAY before NODS !!!
I went from Army entry in June '69 through Basic, AIT, Jump School, The Q and to RVN in August of '70. I don't even need his records after the above statement to Peg my BS Meter (Hell, it twisted the needle off and it's laying at the bottom of the lens!! Gotta get it fixed again !!) !!