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Die Slowly or Quickly...Some Choice!

CLIFF'S NOTES:
As I have stated before I have Combat-Related Amnesia. After 50 years I recently remembered an event that happened at the 180th ASHC. We/crew were getting our Chinook ready for a.m. missions when an officer walks up and tells us to load barrels of "Herbicide" onto our CH47. I asked "Is this the stuff that kills you if you get soaked with it?" The officer replied "Do as you are told". I and the other crew members replied "We're not going to do it". He starts cursing at us and pulls out his 45 and says Are you going to disobey a direct order in a combat zone?" we replied "Yes...we have enough ways to die". He points his 45 at us and a doorgunner says "Sir...you do realize we are on the same team?"
He replied "NOT ME...I WORK FOR THE GOVRNMENT!"
That was when we realized the War was going to Hell and we were nothing more than "Guinea Pigs".
I knew some GREAT Pilots in Nam. He was one of the BASTARDS. I have been suffering the effects of being soaked with Agent Orange for 52 years now.
FYI...the Symptoms are the same as COVID 19...FIGURE THAT ONE OUT.

doorgunner
USA - Friday, May 24, 2024 at 09:41:24 (EDT)

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