How to Ride With the Ninth Infantry in Vietnam

We were doing the reconnaissance for it to see if they could go up the canals and up the rivers, you know, see what the depth was so they could bring the brown water Navy up there. So they dropped us off on these, uh, we called them the darts. They had a 355 degree camera and a fat omeletor and they would take two of us up,. We'd come down and do the reconnaissance. I mean, take soundings and take pictures of known point like a pagoda or another canal coming in or something. And that's what they used those charts to go up and do their amphibious landings. You know, remember I was just a