The End of Your First Tour

"The recon gods had smiled on the reassembled RT Idaho. Somehow the magical elixir of trust, training, instinct, guts, timing, and God's good grace had fallen into place," he says. "I was alive thanks in large part to the skills and courage of Sow, hip, twan, and the other Vietnamese team members." He recalls being frustrated with having enemy soldiers shoot us out of so many targets as helicopters approached LZs for landing.