The Importance of Proper Foot Care

Hackworth: My feet were numb like dead. Why? Because it got cold or... That's just hot. It was just the wetness. When guys' feet aren't good to go, they're done. You can't walk. Keep your socks. So that's definitely a common thing. And he talks about it a lot. Next question. Why were you men in the water? Why didn't they walk along the banks or along pathways between paddy fields? Hackworth: Any dry surface was mined in booby trapped. 60% of all casualties we had in Vietnam came from mines and booby traps laid. We used three times the amount of bombs in the Vietnam War