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Re: Rulles of engagement. Thoughtful Mem. Day

Rules of Engagement for the back seat guys.

1. Wake up at 0500 hrs to the smell of mildew and sweat in your bedding.

2. Walk nake from your hootch to shower house to drain out the 12 pack you had last night and take shower in water that is 45 degrees.

3. Return to hootch and find cleanest dirty uniform you have in the bottom of your foot locker. Grab flight helmet, jacket,chicken plate,M-60,M-14,pistol and flight bag and head to mess hall.

4. Survey chow at mess hall. Same green powdered eggs from yesterday. Bacon, burnt to crisp or raw. Toast, one inch thick and still smoking around the edges. Coffee which will used later in the company area to hold the dust down. Milk that spoiled three days ago but they think its still good because its cold. Skip chow, but fill canteens with red kool-aid and throw fruit into flight bag.

5. Arrive at ship and start pulling inspection panels off for pre-flight.

6. Laugh until eyes start to water because A/C is either hung over or still drunk.

7. Roll eyes up into head as you watch new peter pilot preform pre-flight. Remind him that the thing on the top of the ship is the main rotor and the one in back is the tail rotor.

8. Take off. Listen to AFVN and joke with gunner while A/C sleeps and peter pilot tries to find Dak To.

9. Spend the next twelve to fourteen hours resupplying firebases and taking fire from Sir Charles, and being told that you are in a "No Fire Zone" because there are friendlies in the area.

10. Head back to Camp Holloway as the sun is going down. Share the can of fruit from your C-ration with your gunner. Smoke a cigarette and talk about home.

11. Touch down back home. Spend the next hour and a half pulling post-flight. Hold flashlight in your mouth as you grease main rotor head.

12. Drag your sorry butt back to hootch. Clean your weapons, find something to eat, and write a "hot" letter to your best girl back in the world. "Hi Mom, How are you? Everything is fine here."

13. Fall asleep before you finish letter.

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