"There was this little tiny trail and we’d set these small anti-personnel mines on it. Early in the morning here come three VC, I assume.
The first one stepped on one of the mines and it blew part of his foot off, he stumbled forward hit another one, then stumbled forward and hit another one; he was really hurting and he was lying there. The second guy came up and started trying to help him; and I shot him my M3. He was probably no more than twelve feet away. And the third guy just totally panicked just started spraying the area and running away. And that was kind of the effect that we had on them. For once it was them who could be hit from nowhere, who never knew where we were, never knew when they were going to be hit.
There was a sergeant, who actually was the one who was training us, he was our training sergeant when we came into the company. One of the things he was famous for, he used to carry two .45 pistols. He would climb into a tree, above a trail, and when some VC came through he jumped on them, out of the tree, and pistol whipped them into surrender hahaha!" - Excerpt from an interview with LRRP Sgt. Thomas Paul Chambers during his second tour in Vietnam. (Photo doesn't depict actual person, time or action). #llrp #smacksouls #stayzero #zerofoxtrot