Vietnam--Combat

 Chasing Charlie:
 * uses many acronyms-AO, DMZ, hot LZ, Huey, etc..
 * Newbies [also known as Cherries] have little experience-Grunts [average soldiers] stayed away from them
 * after being under enemy fire, David was shot- taken to hospital
 * in the hospital- his injury was what they call a "million-dollar wound"
 * million-dollar wound- an injury that got you sent back to "the world" [also know as the US]

A Grunts War
 * Firefight!
 * dead of night- VC owns
 * scared of the booby traps, bomb, mines, and booby traps
 * a misstep could lead to instant death
 * The Unique War
 * no other war in history
 * WWI and WWII fighting- very different from Vietnam fighting
 * Who Served?
 * your average Grunts [soldiers] were white and came from rural or small-towns and were between 21-22 years old
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">10-12 percent were African-Americans