"It was shooting and killing for breakfast, shooting and killing for lunch, shooting and killing for dinner. We got there on April 26, and on May 12 we left. In all that time, I don’t remember sleeping. We endured almost continuous firefights for more than two weeks.
We were getting hit with mortars, small-arms fire, people were getting blown apart, there were body parts in the trees — everything bad that could be bad was happening.
We went in with 1,300 men, and there was only about 700 of us who came out. I think a lot more Marines would have come out of those battles if it wasn’t for the M16A1s we were given. We would go to bring in the KIA and we’d find Marines with all kinds of things jammed into their rifles, trying to unjam a round." - PFC Robert Maras, 19yrs old, Golf Company, 2nd BN, 3rd Marines, Khe Sanh, 1967. #stayzero #zerofoxtrot #marines #war #reality #truth