Death in the Jungle by Gary Smith

Author:Gary Smith [Smith, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-78824-5
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Mission Eleven

“Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”

Baudouin I of Belgium,

address to joint session of U.S. Congress,

May 12, 1959

DATE: 8, 9 October, 1967

TIME: 080645H to 090530H

COORDINATES: YS024609

UNITS INVOLVED: Foxtrot Platoon

TASK: Recon patrol, 24 hour river ambush

METHOD OF INSERTION: LCM-6

METHOD OF EXTRACTION: LCM-6

TERRAIN: Mangrove swamp, underwater at high tide

TIDE: 0500H High, 1209H Low, 1900H High, 0100H Low

MOON: None

WEATHER: Cloudy with rain

SEAL TEAM PERSONNEL:

Lt. (jg) Schrader, Patrol Leader/Rifleman, M-16

RM2 Smith, Point/Rifleman, Shotgun

BT2 McCollum, Grenadier, M-79

BT2 Moses, Rifleman, M-16

ADJ2 Markel, Radioman/Rifleman, M-16

ADJ3 Flynn, Automatic Weapons, M-60

HM2 Brown, Corpsman/Rifleman, M-16

AZIMUTHS: 120 degrees-500m

ESCAPE: 090 degrees

PHASE LINE: None

CODE WORDS: Challenge and Reply-Two numbers total 10

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