Good afternoon. Welcome to Sawcast number 31. My name is John Stryker Meyer. I'll be your host today

and this production is brought to you courtesy of Jocco Productions and

Jocco, we thank you very much for this and these stories are from the eight-year secret war conducted by

mostly green berets across the fence and supportive air units in the secret war

Shoff saw one of the three V.C. start to walk toward him. He flipped his car 15 selector switch to on and shot him

Two more V.C. popped up

Shoff flipped it to four automatic and open fire in them

ST Alabama's M79 man Quang hit them with a round of 40 millimeter high explosive from the single shot grenade launcher

Then the whole line of foliage opened up on ST Alabama

Base this is blackjack. We are under fire over

You have right a fake firefight to come home and it's steak night

Base blackjack. I'm serious over

The radio operator's voice was replaced with the voice of an FOB-1 officer

He told black it was too late in the day for extraction

The 834s had returned to their home base in Denang

The U.S. the U.S., excuse me, U.H. 1E's or U.S. didn't fly this late in the day

He told black that it would be dark by the time they flew to ST Alabama's beleaguered location

Besides he noted it's against army regulations for them to fly at night

After the initial burst of gunfire between the V.C. and ST Alabama, there was a sudden low

Cowboy and the Vietnamese team members on ST Alabama got online and charged forward toward the V.C. in the foliage

Black was amazed and impressed with the boldness of their tactics

They didn't wait for Shoff they charged

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