The Vietnam Experience

So we went back to our hotel, showered and got dressed for work. It was eleven forty-five when our squadron started for the base. We did not have a car, so we had to walk. It was only about a five minute walk though. On the way to work the rest of our squadron informed us that they had seen us trying to surf and thought in was the funniest thing they had every seen. Mike and I were quite embarrassed and quickly tried to change the subject, but they could not get over how entertaining we had been. Thankfully they quit talking about before arrived at the base, the last thing we needed was everybody at the base hearing about our surfing experience. When we arrived at base, we were told that our flight to Vietnam had been cancelled do to bad weather, and we would not be flying to Vietnam until the next day. At 5:00 a.m. the next day we were already at the base and suiting up for the flight to Vietnam. The flight would take about twenty-four hours. We would take off at 6:00 a.m. …show more content…
We were so tired and did not feel like eating so we all went to bed. When we woke up it was 9:00 a.m. we were astonished to find our body’s covered in red bumps. Apparently the men that worked at the base, failed to inform us that the mosquitos swarmed thick at night and those who did not sleep inside of a mosquito net would end up with tons of bites, like us. From then on we slept under mosquito nets. It was August 5, 1996. I had been in Vietnam for about one year and was supposed to leave any time to head back to the U.S. I had been on several combat missions, some went well and others were not so good. The next day me, Mike and ten other pilots were scheduled to fly what was probably the most dangerous mission we had ever flown. We were to bomb a heavily guarded factory twenty miles away. The factory was owned by North Vietnam, and it was producing mass amounts of weapons every second. Since North Vietnam was the enemy the factory had to be