The Green Berets Page #3

- Captain MacDanial, your replacement.

- That's good to hear.

Sergeant Kenny, pick up

the extra gear and the mail.

If you gentleman will follow me,

we'll get inside.

You got about a 150 foot

killing area here, Captain.

The first thing I'd do...

...is cut that back another 300 feet.

We've wanted to do that,

but we've been short of help.

We tried to get some engineers. They're

all busy. I requested some Seabees.

If that detachment ever gets here,

you put them on that first thing.

Mail call!

Dodge City?

You can buy it cheap.

Those what they call pungi sticks?

Yes, it's a little trick

we learned from Charlie.

But we don't dip them

in the same stuff he does.

Could increase the effectiveness

of that concertina with more tanglefoot.

- FRONT TOWARD ENEMY

- The claymores are great.

Got any more of them?

- Double the number on the perimeter.

- We'll get right on it.

Brings us up to date.

They mortared us again last night.

It's becoming a fairly regular thing.

- How many operations do you have out?

- 3 recon and 2 ambush.

- And that counterpart of yours...

- Captain Nim. He's out with a patrol.

The one that just got zapped.

He'll be in tomorrow with 3 wounded.

- Will you be staying with us awhile?

- I'll be in camp, off and on.

We fixed a place for you in the commo

bunker. Not much, but it's dry.

Good.

After mail call,

I've assigned my men...

...to get Captain MacDanial's team

bedded down.

He's a newspaper man.

This is Captain Coleman. Mr. Beckworth

is with the Chronicle-Herald.

- Can you find a spot for him?

- Affirmative.

Take Mr. Beckworth here to my hooch,

get him squared away.

This way, Mr. Beckworth.

Can I give you a hand?

If it's all right, the lieutenant

and I will stay with the team.

This way, sir.

The captain has the bottom bunk. We'll

get somebody to make this one for you.

- Is there drinking water?

- Yes. I don't know if it's cold.

It'll be fine, thank you.

You've got a pad in the storage bunker.

You can have mine in a few days.

I hope.

To the right here.

You funny!

I see you've made

Hamchunk's "A" Club.

You funny!

You not.

This is Hamchunk.

He's become a permanent fixture

around here. He's an orphan.

Lived most of his life with missionaries

10 clicks south of here...

...until they were assassinated.

Maybe you could use an interpreter.

- Missionaries taught him English.

- I don't want an interpreter.

You number one.

I choose you.

I don't want to be chosen.

- I don't think you have much choice.

- Choice, Mr. Hobson?

I haven't had a choice

since I was selected for this...

...outfit.

You get used to me.

You funny.

In here.

What's the status

of your crew-served weapons?

We have two 81's, four 60's...

...twelve 30 calibers,

three on each wall.

One 4-deuce. Besides crew-served,

we have six M-79's.

No 50 calibers?

I'd give an R and R in Bangkok

for the smell of a 50.

- You hear that, Sergeant?

- Yes, sir.

- Know where there are any 50's?

- No, sir.

Neither do I.

You better tell Sergeant Petersen.

I almost forgot, sir. Captain

MacDanial needs more corrugated tin.

It's been hard to come by lately.

Yes, sir. I know, tell Petersen!

Tell the scrounger.

What happens if Charlie hits this camp

before you get it completed?

If he does, and he's too strong

for us to handle...

...we have 3 LZ's within 4 clicks to

send 10 choppers each to reinforce us.

One is by that shale cliff

you saw on your way in.

And the second is to the west of here...

...near a deserted Montagnard village

where some of these people used to live.

The third is to the north

near an old bridge.

What if Charlie overruns the camp?

In that case, sir...

...the camp is prepared

to escape and evade on order...

...through places

in the wire and mines...

...only "A" and Captain Nim know about.

- My compliments.

- Thank you, sir.

Commander of this area

runs everything by the book!

And I am with him to the nth degree!

And every piece of this equipment

will be painted...

...and every piece of this equipment

will be numbered...

What in the hell is that?

- You make good coffee.

- Cholong coffee.

- More coffee, Sergeant?

- No, thanks.

Brother!

Boy, is it miserable out there.

And believe me, it's sure in hell

stay-awake weather.

Don't you men have rain gear?

Yeah, but it doesn't

do any good in this lousy climate.

Skipper!

Savoy 3 is on the horn, sir.

Savoy 3 to Savoy 6.

- Over.

- This is Savoy 3.

I'm nearing home base.

I've thrown smoke.

Can you identify?

I see the red smoke.

Come on in.

Give them a hand.

- Morning, Max, Collier.

- Morning, sir.

- Hell of a mess!

- Looks like we're going to float away.

What's this outfit coming in?

That's Captain Nim, your counterpart...

...with the patrol that just got zapped.

Alert the dispensary.

Tell them casualties are coming in.

I'll go find Colonel Kirby.

It was a close one.

Get those casualties over to the

dispensary. Let's go. Snap it up!

The rest of you...

...get some dry clothes and chow,

report for debriefing.

Move it out!

Fill me in.

As you know,

we were hit yesterday.

Three casualties.

This is sure Charlie's weather!

But they didn't follow us.

- You sure?

- Affirmative.

Skipper, I would like

to look after my casualties.

Sure. Come on.

- What's the situation?

- He'll be all right.

More painful than serious, sir.

I want you to meet the Camp Commander.

Dai-uy Nim.

Stay where you are, Dai-uy.

Tran Nim.

I've read your name on many reports.

You're very active.

We try, sir.

Meet your new

counterpart, Captain MacDanial.

Welcome! We will have a good post

here when it gets finished.

I've no doubt, Dai-uy.

Your outfit looks pretty beat up.

- 11 days is a long patrol.

- We're short of men.

We've got everything we need

except strikers.

What seems to be the trouble?

The natives have been so exploited by

Viet Cong, they trust no one with a gun.

Same old story. How many villagers

are there in the vicinity?

We've got 7.

There were 5.

And we've got 2 in camp.

If you got all the villagers in,

what would that do for you?

That'd give us 3 to 5 hundred.

- Better get on to SyWar about this.

- When you leave, Dai-uy?

Tomorrow.

Hopefully.

Da Nang, Nha Trang,

Saigon and home!

My home is in Hanoi.

I'll go home too, someday.

You see.

First, kill all stinking Cong.

Then go home.

Will there be anything else?

That's all, Nim.

Thank you, sir.

He sounds like he means it.

He keeps score

on the wall of his hooch.

He personally greased 52 this year.

Says he'll double it by next year...

...if all the yards get out of his way

for a clear field to fire.

I noticed a load of corrugated tin

has miraculously appeared overnight.

- Sergeant Petersen provided.

- That's a good man you got there.

- Sergeant Petersen say where he got it?

- He said the good fairy left it.

I hope he said,

"The good fairy left it, sir!"

Captain, will you join us

in the commo bunker?

- Good evening, Colonel.

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