Things Grunts Faced On The First 30 Days On A Vietnam War Firebase

You climb off a Huey onto a bulldozed hilltop, and after weeks of humping the jungle it is the closest thing to safety you have seen. Sandbags, mail, hot chow, and wire between you and the enemy. You will hold this hill for a few weeks, maybe a month. But a firebase could kill you in its own way. This is a grunt's month on a Vietnam firebase: why one company in four got the hill, how long a stint really lasted, how a base was built out of whatever a Chinook could carry, the routine that kept men alive, and Fire Support Base Mary Ann, March 1971, where 30 Americans died after months of defenses slipping away. The company that paid for it had been on the hill about two days. Every claim sourced. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📕 THE BOOKS FROM TRUE VIETNAM DOCS First-time readers get the first-reader price, applied automatically at checkout ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOK ONE · The Documented History of MACV-SOG in Vietnam The book mentioned in the video as The SOG Files, now published under this title. America's secret war in Laos and Cambodia: the missions, the arsenal, the men and the myths, in six chapters, every claim sourced. 👉 First-reader price, $4.99 instead of $7.99: https://buy.stripe.com/3cI14q7PY8su0Pg3vu6kg00?prefilled_promo_code=FIRSTREAD2 Look inside first: https://www.truevietnamdocs.com/sog BOOK TWO · The Documented History of the Gear of the Vietnam War Everything a firebase ran on: the rifle, the ruck, the radio, the rations, the armor and the boots, and the paper trail behind every one of them. Nine chapters, 193 pages. 👉 First-reader price, $5.99 instead of $8.99: https://buy.stripe.com/bJe14q0nweQScxY6HG6kg01?prefilled_promo_code=FIRSTREAD2 Look inside first: https://www.truevietnamdocs.com/gear Buying for a father or grandfather who was over there? It is the most common reason people do. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚖️ MYTH VS. RECORD MYTH: Grunts pulled a fixed 30-day firebase tour. RECORD: one 101st Airborne company