More luck than anything. I knew for a fact I was gonna die out there. I was convinced I’d never see home again. God pulled me out of it. The second night I slept in a tree, if you can call that sleeping
Very impressive story, did you ever go back and try find the river? I spent hundreds of nights, lost and wondering aimlessly through woods, jungles, deserts, high plains and frozen tundra, but that happens when you give a 21 year old Army 2nd Lieutenant a map and compass.