I looked at your profile and am in awe of what you have done and experienced. I hope you’re eating better, however, these days. o7
Some of the advantages of being on gunboats were having real chow hall meals when not on the river. So we only had to put up with C-rats irregularly. Also we had showers every couple of days. What I did wasn’t much compared to those ground pounders in the field. My hat is really off to those guys. Days on end in the muck. Vietnam was mostly boring, interspersed with brief periods of total insanity.