around in the fox hole all day, and I would talk to Dinh. We mostly talked about his life. What he done before the war and his childhood. Dinh was also from a poor family. Hew was raised by his mother until he was twenty. Then he moved out into city where he could find a good job, but no one hired him. They thought he wouldn’t be able to do any work since he was so skinny. This was the only place he belonged so he remained very loyal to the commander. He wasn’t married and didn’t have any kids so leaving behind his past life was easy for him. He was twenty six when he joined under Commander Tran just little over six months ago. Just a few days before the village attack, he Dinh got his first glimpse of combat. While they were on the march, …show more content…
Then there was silence again. Just the five of us waiting for the americans and south vietnamese to come. We all started to sleep at night. No one stayed up to guard since it was known that the americans wouldn’t risk any night operations. It was true though. Most of their night operations were near their bases, and rarely did they travel deep into the jungles when the sun was down. On the other hand, most of the viet cong’s operations were done under the night sky. Our group didn’t do much, but protect the supply line. The creek we were positioned by ran parallel to one of the supply lines. There were many other fox holes down the creek. Over a third of our forces were guarding the creek at all times. The main position had a machine nest with a M60 machine gun. There were several other fox holes near the nest, some of them were near on a little hill behind the nest. The soldiers on the hill were mostly snipers that were suppose to support the main defenses if anything when wrong. They could also move from their holes and position themselves at different angles to pin down enemies and keep them from taking out the machine gun nest. If the enemy was to try and flank around the creek, they would have to meet us. Dinh and Anh carried the heavier automatic weapons since they were bigger than the rest of us. Because Huy, Do, and I were skinnier, we carried rifles which weighed around ten pounds. I carried four magazines on me, but we had extra ammunition in a box at the back of our fox hole. All our guns used the same ammo so we could use each others if someone ran out during