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14 Cards in this Set
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#10 |
Worst or lowest possible |
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Piasters |
South Vietnamese money |
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Punji stakes |
Sharpened bamboo stakes, embedded in the ground designed to penetrate the foot or leg, often poisoned with human feces |
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R&R |
Rest & Relaxation, a short vacation given to a US soldier serving in a combat zone |
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Saddle up |
Prepare to move out on patrol |
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Sapper |
VC/NVA soldiers specially trained to penetrate enemy defense positions to destroy targets in a base with satchel bombs just before an attack |
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Search & destroy |
Offensive military operation designed to find the enemy and destroy them |
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Short timer |
Anyone with less than 30 days left in his combat tour |
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Slick |
Slang for a Huey helicopter used to transport troops |
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Spiderhole |
A camouflaged one-man fighting position used by VC/NVA |
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Starlight scope |
A night vision device |
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Tunnel rat |
A small-statured US soldier who is sent underground in enemy tunnel complexes |
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WIA |
Wounded In Action |
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Yards |
Short for "Montagnards" |
