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When I arrived in Vietnam, my orders were for the 1st Cavalry, but they cancelled these order and sent me to an experimental unit called the

"Combat Intelligence Battalion",

there was only one such unit ever formed.

The first time I saw men straight from combat was at night when they walked into my tent.  We looked at one another without a word.  I've never seen any human, look like these two men.  I could feel the fear.  I could taste it.  Were they insane?  At that moment, I understood - this was the metamorphosis that awaited me and my friends.  In a few days we would be like them.

My job was to collect and monitor intelligence at the battalion level, in the field.  I served with many different units, mostly infantry and mechanized infantry.  In October, after days of mud, in the middle of a "fire fight", I decided to die clean.  Several weeks later the Combat Intelligence Battalion was disbanded and I was sent to the 101st Airborne, where I flew recon with the "Kingsmen".  Death and Destruction 24 hours a day - "If You Care Enough to Send the Very Best, Send the Kingsmen."

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