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32. We were sent on several "rescue missions" in Nam....

Mon May 6, 2013, 07:49 PM

May 2013

The one's I can remember clearly were to help an Army unit that was pinned down in an ambush, to find a pilot from a downed aircraft and retrieve any armament that was not destroyed, and to aid one of our own units (Marines) under siege, these usually do not go well. We were serving as a react team at the time. I can tell you I would rather be on the ground under fire than to be sent into one of those situations. Utter chaos...especially the night time missions. I give the military and the State Department the benefit of the doubt on these. I do not blame Obama, but I do blame G W Bush for 9/11. It's my opinion and I am entitled to it.

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