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War stories.
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I see you've time in war zones. In VN, there were rules for reporters. While there, reporters were under jurisdiction of MACV. Helped little then too.

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I remember having a TV crew and a reporter along with us on one op. We were moving through a village. I was the platoon sergeant and as my troops moved through the ville I looked back and one of my troops was trying to use his zippo to set fire to one of the hootch's. I jumped his butt and asked him what the hell he was doing. He said the reporter told him to set the hooch afire. I put their asses on the next chopper that came in.

He complained to my chain of command and it went down hill from there until I explained to the colonel what had actually happened. Never heard anymore about it and we never took them on ops with us again.