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Show Rose (1 / 25 / 83) page 27 ~r. K Mr. R hit. Say 40 missions, 15 men, you've got 600 men involved. Out of 600 men I might have seen 5, 6 or 8 carried back ••• once in a while a dead one. We had plenty of dead ones the day I was telling you about that we got shelled and I got this eye. There's nothing wrong with my eye incidently, the gravel had just scraped the hell out of my face, and that blood was running in my eye. A different kind of war from what maybe one might picture of war. Well, the fact of the matter is that what you see as war is what was made for movie pictures. I mean, if you ¢it~ saw what you saw on the screen, you know, during that Vietnam war, when they were showing a guy getting hit, well they happen to be on a guy that got hit out of millions and millions of pictures. So, graphically> every guy that's in front of the camera is getting killed. Do you follow me? There's a big difference. Those Vietnam pictures were anything but realistic in terms of the whole broad spectru~ of things. I saw a regiment go out in an advance, I've seen combat control patrols, too, that might be 50 men in the company, and they go out and say "we'll take that •• we're ready to go, and you shouldn~ get any opposition from over there, and there's nothing over here, but you might find somebody dug in on the reverse side o~ this thing, and we'll give you the artillary and support you need. We'll try to pin anything down in that area for you while you're moving, but you give us a signal about when you want it". That's when the field artillary comes into play. So, they'd move out, and I saw a regiment move out just like a company moving out; one guy starts out, one guy, and he's referred to as the point end he's usually a PVT. Then about 5 ya~s behind him, if that much, there's going |
