"Chu Hoi" was synonymous with surrender in our AO, when we had someone trapped and he wanted to give up he would yell Chu Hoi and the Interpreter with us would tell him the equivalent of "Drop your weapon and come out with your hands up" and we would take them into custody. In the field we didn't differentiate much between chu hoi and POW, we only had custody of them a little while anyway. Usually within minutes of a capture, as long as we were close to a suitible LZ, the colonel's Charlie-Charlie bird would swoop down and pick him up. Our interpreter, while waiting for the helicopter, pumped him for the kind of information useful to us. That amounted to what unit he was with. Where were they now, etc.
The battalion S2 and interpreter would subject him to a much more extensive de-briefing at our firebase before he was flown elsewhere. I don't think it was until he got to Chu Lai that he might be treated different, taken to a Chu Hoi camp instead of POW, etc.
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