The Unreality of Charlie Company Training

Charlie Company as a whole is pretty normal for a company of army soldiers in Vietnam. An investigation ordered by the Army Chief of Staff in 1970 revealed that 87% of Charlie Company's NCOs were high school graduates. Michael Bernhardt was unusual for an infantry man, but he enlisted to have been transferred to a parachute company. Fred Widmer thought they could go to Vietnam and be Audie Murphy's,. "Give it a good burst, kill"