The Viet Cong's Chance to Get Even

Captain Medina told his troops to expect a hell of a good fight. The 48th Viet Cong battalion were in Me Lai with a strength of between 250 and 280. Many senior NCOs left the meeting convinced that the order was to kill everyone. In West, it was a search and destroy mission. We were to kill everything. Sergeant Hodges didn't hear that. La Martina Gonzalez. Lloyd Parsh Moss later testified that this is what they heard. Greg Olson's foreboding letter to his father, who had been posted only two days before, has a different recollection of the briefing.