Most of the maintenance people that D troop had were people that had been shot up or down one to many times. There was never any complaints about this practice.

    When I first got to D troop in 68 the two armament guys were Dough Boy survivors and one had a two inch deep crease in his ass that he got from being shot while diving back into a slick as they were being pulled out of an LZ.

     Well Ed Debow had already been hit three times and I spent one early morning arguing with him to stop flying because he had earned the right to slow down. He told me that three hits were a charm and nothing would happen to him. He got hit in the head that day and died.

     That always falls into the category of "If I had tried harder maybe he would still be around". However a tour in Nam leaves alot of us with "Coulda hada, Woulda Hada , Shoulda Hada".

Don Armstrong
Scavenger
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