[Bill Farnie]

We had a HOI CHANH come into us once. We were on a RIF in January 69' and he had hidden himself just off the trail we were walking hoping that someone would see him so he could surrender with the safe pass leaflet he had. Almost the whole company had passed him by before he realized that the stupid GI?s couldn?t see him so he jumped out on the trail with his hands in the air.

Our Kit Carson Scouts questioned him about what unit he was with and where they were and he said he didn?t know because they left the night before and that?s when he slipped away and stayed behind. It was only a platoon and when they saw that we were headed towards them, they took off. He said he watched us and saw that we had taken this trail so he setup off of it waiting to be discovered.

We didn?t believe him that he didn?t know where his unit was headed so we made him walk point. He complained to the scouts that it wasn?t fair that he had to walk point without a weapon, so we gave him an entrenching tool. An ARVN copter picked him up and I have no idea what became of him.