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--
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tremendous guy.
1:21:51
He just heard his name over there.
Hey. [Chuckles]
1:21:55
[Speaking Vietnamese]
1:22:14
It's no surprise
that in a very poor country...
1:22:17
you can find people
who will wear foreign uniforms.
1:22:21
What has always surprised us,
1:22:23
what we've never been willing
to predict or understand,
1:22:27
is that the Vietnamese
communist leadership...
1:22:30
can find enough people
to live in the tunnels,
1:22:34
fight for nothing
wearing ragged shorts,
1:22:37
year after year
under the American bombs.
1:22:39
A war in which one side
is entirely financed...
1:22:44
and equipped and supported
by foreigners...
1:22:47
is not a civil war.
1:22:49
The only foreigners
in that country...
1:22:51
were the foreigners we financed
in the first part of the war...
1:22:54
and the foreigners we were
in the second half of the war.
1:22:59
Basically,
we didn't want to acknowledge...