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Stand Down after Operation 3-70 (Delta Dagger)
FOB Mai Loc
Narrative:
After nearly a month at Mai Loc, we got a two week stand down in Nha
Trang. We still had not received the final word on the Project
closing down. We knew it was coming but not when. |
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Narrative for photos 9 - 12:
There is a sad ending to this story. A couple of days later, Sprouse
and I were sitting on the front steps of Badolati barracks. It was
early and we were the only ones awake, luckily. The ducks were
grazing in the grass and Douche Bag was on guard. Roy asked me what
they ate and I said bugs, seeds, grain, etc. He said they looked
hungry, so one of us got a bag of PIR (dehydrated) rice and
scattered it in the grass. The ducks ate every grain of it. It had
rained the night before and there were puddles in the sidewalk. The
ducks got thirsty right away and drank from the puddles. They
started blowing up like balloons. When we saw them start keeling
over, we knew we had really screwed up. They were suffocating. Douch
Bag was frantic, going from one to another using her nose to stand
them up but they kept falling over like fuzzy yellow balls, legs
kicking in the air. I told Sprouse, "Do you know what Stick will do
to us if he finds out ?" Roy said he wouldn't tell if I wouldn't. We
shook on it and for years, neither one of us ever told anyone about
how the ducks died. It was attributed to rat poison which was in
boxes all over the compound. |
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