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Our First Patrol10452 Reads
![]() ![]() I was a Grenadier or Thumper (M-79) with 1st Platoon, A Co, 1/502nd Infantry on this day, 27 December 1967. The platoon had a bad case of the ass because we had to go on this so called training mission in a semi-secure area outside Cu Chi Base Camp. What really gave us the ass was that we had to miss the Bob Hope USO show. Note: by Larry Weisbarth, A 1/502nd Airborne Infantry, 67-68
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