There was this weird schizophrenia going on in the military at that time, says Captain Sims. The army wanted to win hearts and minds and have a quiet area so if you're gonna have a loud fight that showed up on some generals radar it would be because Americans were killing bad guys not getting killed. "We found that the first infantry division was doing a pretty good job of eliminating all I have to," he adds.

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