"We had the indigenous rucksacks. And ours is like, small," he says. "Once you put the radio and put the sweater underneath the radio, so it protect your back." No dog tags, no military idea of any kind, no rank, no name tags, no jump wings, no CIB, no patches, no unit identified or nothing. So those are the things you didn't carry. Things you did carry: M79 pounds, extra hand grenades, a battery for good luck.

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