9 Jungle Rules the Army Never Taught Grunts in Vietnam — They Learned Too Late

Tape on the dog tags. Canteens filled to the brim. Nothing picked up off the trail, never the same way home, and a full stop the moment the birds went quiet. These are the rules grunts learned on the trail in Vietnam, passed from the man who had been there longer to the man who had just arrived. Sources: - FM 31-30, Jungle Training and Operations (Department of the Army, 1965) - FM 21-75, Combat Training of the Individual Soldier and Patrolling (Department of the Army, 1967) - Gordon L. Rottman, Vietnam Infantry Tactics (Osprey, 2011) - Accounts from Army and Marine veterans of the Vietnam War