The water in Vietnam was very putrid and unhealthy. They did not call it the “Brown Water Navy” for nothing. C-rats at the time had tablets to sterilize the water and it had to be boiled as well.
—”The water in Vietnam was very putrid and unhealthy.”
We drank whatever water we could find where we found it,you could not carry enough, no time for fires! Removing the detonator and burning a frag was used in the LZ for warm water.
The water may have been the source of the worms?
Every so often we were de-wormed! Everyone had to take a drink of liquid worm medicine.