Word: niedringhaus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPECIALIST 5TH CLASS LARRY C. NIEDRINGHAUS, 22, serves as the demolitions expert for a twelve-man U.S. Special Forces team at Suoida, a bleak, wire-enclosed camp at the base of Black Virgin Mountain, 60 miles northwest of Saigon. Niedringhaus first came to Viet Nam in 1962, at his own request is now serving his third tour of duty. Says he: "Damned if I can think of any place I'd rather be or anything I'd rather...
...Niedringhaus, things are looking up in Viet Nam. "It's hard to believe how much this war has changed," he says. "We used to have to scrounge damned near everything we needed, including weapons and ammo. And I'll tell you something else: We didn't kill a helluva lot of V.C. either...
Like all U.S. Special Forces men in Viet Nam, Niedringhaus serves as an adviser to a Vietnamese Special Forces counterguerrilla team, averages four three-to five-day patrols a month. Such patrols are exhausting, nerve-racking work. Why volunteer for more? Says Niedringhaus: "I guess what it comes down to is that you always want to try yourself, to prove something to yourself...
...that statement, Ayres certainly spoke for the vast majority of American fighting men in Viet Nam - for Risner and Rogers, for Skunk Hunter Hunt and for Mac the Fac, for Niedringhaus and Necaise, for Dodson and Bradley and McNeil...