[DJ Taylor]

Remembering a fallen comrade on Memorial Day.

[EEGator]

Thanks for sharing your story.

[knarf]

For those of us that never saw combat, I think we need to hear the account(s) of "how it really is/was".

I'LL confess, at least .. I never knew the connection of how deep and intricate the machinination of a battle and the resulting trauma.

Thank you Sahge (In my native Bostonian) and God bless you and those that tell the stories we need that history is known and remembered.

[onona]

Thank you for posting.

God Rest Their Souls.

[central_va]

As the Mike Force at that time was armed with WWII Era M-2 carbines, the Mike Force was badly outgunned.

WWII surplus carbines against AK-47's. Sucks. At least give them M-1 rifles.

[jazusamo]

Thanks for posting, Sergeant Major.

I, for one, will remember MSG William B. Hunt.

[JDoutrider]

Thanks for the remembrance DJ...

Memorial Day is never a good day for me as well.

God Bless our brave soldiers...

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Wow. A tough read and something difficult to picture. But that’s what this day is for.

[PGalt]

wow...

...thank you, sir.

R.I.P. MSG William B. Hunt, U.S. Army Special Forces, SFC George Heaps, the remainder of Mike Force Company - China Boy 3, and the Chinese Nungs.

condolences to their families and friends.

[packrat35]

Thank you for your service and sharing this story. It is harsh and difficult at times to read but needed to be told. And we need to know what sacrifices good men gave so we might be here.

I never served but I salute your friend and his men this Memorial Day!

[Chode]

Prayers up...

[21twelve]

“...and his last words were to shout, “Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!”

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I am no military man, but I can just imagine the tense hours of preparation creating the defensive fire coordinates and patterns. Doing everything one can personally digging in, preparing yourself, and probably spending that fitful night thinking that you might have half a chance. And then, when your artillery doesn't come in on your first or second call for it, you realize you will be over-run. I can hear the panic, the bewilderment and the hopelessness in those three written words.

But amazingly the survivors did NOT give up hope, but crawled through the jungle against all odds. RIP William B. Hunt. And I will wish to think that he died with his Nung comrade-in-arms at his side giving him comfort.