Night walk

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Just about every Inf. unit had some kind of night patrol/ambush thing going on outside a base camp/firebase.
I can remember going out on a night Patrol. I thought to myself, this can't be good, I gess they got the idea from the NVA cause thats what they did,
We were walking some jungle/wooded area at night, 5 or 6 of us, Now it was so dark we could hardly see each other directly in front of us, If one guy would have fell off a cliff the rest would have fallowed. We were to walk 1 mile out and turn for 1/2 mile then turn and walk back, We didn't even make it the first mile before dawn.
That was right up there with the dumbest things the Army did.
Did you know that 2,000 steps, in the woods, is close to a mile.

Ron