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Most of my NCOs were Nam Vets,when I was in Korea on the DMZ,those guys took care of us & kept us alive,I owe my life to guys like Jerry Sr."Roster" was Jerry's nickname growing up,also he was in the 101st Airborne Division,the patch has a bald eagle,theres no bald eagles in Vietnam,both south and north Vietnamese called members of that unit "roosters/chickens",The video shows him as point man,they are wearing the wrong patch(1st Cav),but they are LRRPs (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols,pronounced "Lurps").Those guys had the most dangerous jobs,google them,they are small, heavily armed long-range reconnaissance teams that patrol deep in enemy-held territory,I was once in a Long Range Surveillance unit (LRS) (pronounced "lurse").Long time ago.This song and video hit me hard,Jerry Sr. was a lefty,the guy who played him was a lefty,"Machinegun man",thats a M-60 Machine gun you see rambo shooting one handed,that doesnt happen,some of the Viets called it a rooster because of the muzzle flash,we called them 'Pigs".Its guys like Jerry who kept us alive with what they went through,they don't talk about it to civilians,but they drilled it into us,non-stop,they didn't want us to die,I've never met him,but I know his kind,he's a brother,the boots they wear,Jerry Jr. are Corcoran Paratrooper boots,if you wern't Airborne,you couldn't wear them,those might be his dad's boots.Wish I knew which 101st LRRP unit he was with.The North Vietnamese Army & the Viet Cong had bounties on all LRRPS,as the North Koreans did on us when I was on the DMZ.Thats were the snuff comes from."They hunted us more so than other units because we kicked the shit out of them & we lost many doing it |
