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A Marine's Baptism of Fire (opens the original)
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This week we are turning the page over to someone else.Charlie “Ski” Sliwkoski was a Marine corporal in 1967, twenty-two years old, part of the close air support team attached to Special Landing Force Alpha aboard the USS Okinawa. His job was the radio: marking the lines, calling in the gunships and the jets, getting the wounded out. Some time ago, he emailed us the account below, along with permission to use it however we saw fit. We are sharing it now almost exactly as he wrote it. We correcte
Vietnam in 1967 (opens the original)
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I was nineteen when the sergeant found us in the dark.“We expect to be overrun tonight,” he said. “Stay awake and be ready.”By three in the morning, the gunfire was walking toward us out of the black. Then a Spooky gunship — the AC-47 the grunts called “Puff the Magic Dragon” — banked overhead and breathed a solid rope of red fire down into the tree line, thousands of rounds a minute pouring onto the men coming for us. We were in the Que Son Valley. It was our first operation. It was not the las
What Do You Owe the Man Who Got You Out of an Ambush? (opens the original)
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Two in the morning, and the mist had come in off the sea behind us, cold, and there was no low place to it and no high place either — it was just everywhere at once, in the dense foliage, dripping off the surface of my poncho, numbing my face until I couldn't tell the mist from the sweat, though I knew damn well the sweat wasn't from the cold.I knelt in the wet sand of the trail and looked ahead, and there in the mist I saw it — a place where the white sand under the black had been turned up, fr
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