Never wanted to be a "ground pounder" Dave and felt so bad for those guys we inserted into bomb craters blown into the triple canopy jungle to be maybe extracted at some later date or maybe not. Can't imagine "seeing worse" but also being willing to do it again when there was no cause worth dying for. For American troops that is. For the Vietnamese however it was their Revolutionary war and Ho Chi Minh was their George Washington and they were destined to fight it out until one side prevailed with or without our massive military machine. Over 58,000 American soldiers died in that war of choice based on lies so what would more Americans dying for those same lies gain you? Why would you be willing to do it again now that we can see the folly of being there in the first place? I enlisted specifically for Viet Nam service needing to see what was the biggest thing of my generation. I saw a very different reality than what had been presented me. My naive patriotism changed to cynicism.