Taken from Meeting The Enemy: A Marine Goes Home by Aaron M. Davis (reviewer):
Meeting the Enemy: A Marine Returns Homeby Suel Jones(BookSurge Publishing, 2009)
Aaron Davis in Vietnam, 2016.
Combat is best described as hours upon hours of boredom fractured by moments of complete insanity. At this time, we were praying for some period of boredom, but we knew an offensive probably was building against us. We didn't know when they'd hit. All of the probing, sniping, hit and run tactics, and shelling were to wear us down, so they could catch us exhausted and with our guard down. We'd been in the bush more than a month, and needed relief badly, but it seemed that every unit along the DMZ was under attack, taking casualties, and short of men. We had to do with what we had.
The Marines wanted tough kids who didn't understand they weren't bulletproof and were straight off momma's tit, so they were easily disciplined and were malleable. All of us always thought it would be someone else.... Read More
