You did not have mental preparation before entering into patrol with a “high” chance contact, which means you would suffer mentally. Soldiers were drafted into war, forced against their will to fight, and expected to return back to everyday life with no support. Some soldiers had the job of searching for Viet Cong tunnels, and all they had was a flashlight and a pistol with rope tied around their foot. Every second of patrol there was a chance they could be fired at, or die. The exposure and stress of the gruesome war would be carried with Vietnam soldiers for the rest of their
You did not have mental preparation before entering into patrol with a “high” chance contact, which means you would suffer mentally. Soldiers were drafted into war, forced against their will to fight, and expected to return back to everyday life with no support. Some soldiers had the job of searching for Viet Cong tunnels, and all they had was a flashlight and a pistol with rope tied around their foot. Every second of patrol there was a chance they could be fired at, or die. The exposure and stress of the gruesome war would be carried with Vietnam soldiers for the rest of their