1:20:03
Rid the hamlet of all V.C...
1:20:06
so there will be no more suffering
and destruction...
1:20:09
for ourselves
and our compatriots.
1:20:14
- [Speaking Vietnamese]
- [American Shouts]
1:20:17
Oh, my friend.
[Laughing]
1:20:20
- How you doing? Good to see you again.
- You just get back?
1:20:22
- Yeah. How you doing, men?
- Very good to see you.
1:20:25
How you doing?
Trung, good seeing you.
1:20:28
- Good to see you, sir.
- How you doing? Fine.
1:20:31
Just came in this afternoon, sir.
Been very quiet?
1:20:34
- Except last time, when the, uh--
- When the rockets went off?
1:20:38
- [Laughs]
- Yeah.
1:20:40
Very nice.
I read about it in Stars And Stripes.
1:20:43
That's one of our success stories here,
this battalion is.
1:20:45
We had a real, uh--
a lot of trouble with it.
1:20:47
We just gave, uh,
four bronze stars...
1:20:50
and five Ar-Comms
with V-device this week...
1:20:53
to a battalion commander and
three of his officers and five soldiers.
1:20:57
And we have six N-pac awards...
1:21:00
pending for
last Saturday night's action...
1:21:03
where we killed six V.C.
and captured nine weapons.
1:21:06
Good grief.
1:21:07
He had been the recon
company commander of the, uh, 263rd...
1:21:12
and he'd done a real tremendous job
just as recon company commander.
1:21:17
And then they moved him over here.
1:21:20
In a ten-day period or two-week period,
he completely reversed it.
1:21:23
They had the battalion here
under a very poor major.
1:21:28
They had it to the point
where the company commanders...
1:21:32
were throwing down their weapons
and crying--or at least one of them did.
1:21:35
Ten days later they had
a big contact with the V.C...
1:21:38
and in 3 days killed 42,
lost none of their own.
1:21:43
He does it with a fairly limited staff.
1:21:46
Although some of his people,
like that young major there, Major Yuk--
1:21:49
tremendous guy.
1:21:51
He just heard his name over there.
Hey. [Chuckles]
1:21:55
[Speaking Vietnamese]