User blog:DeltaOp/Good Morning Vietnam...

My name, Sergeant Paul Curtis. This my story, as a soldier in SOG.

I started out as a Devil Dog. My M14, and me. I was an outstanding sniper, and it helped my dad taught me how to track animals when I was 9.

I got promoted to Corporal after I took out an trench full of VC. They had Alpha pinned down, and the weather was bad. Air support was out of the

question. I was called up and I set myself up on a little tree. Thank god it was day, or else they would have seen my muzzle flashes in an instant.

23 kills. That was the report, I nailed 23 commies. That's when I got plucked.

I was pretty damn scared. The SOG. Studies and Observations Group. This was stuff Greenies did in Laos and Cambodia. There were guys

all over the services. There was a couple Marines, a Seal, and 2 Army "Lurp" guys (Long Range Recon Patrol). They gave us these tricked out

guns, M16s, but better. They shortened the barrels and added a collapsible stock. I missed my ole M14, but man this thing looked sick. They

called it a "CAR-15". They let me keep my M1911 though, which was pretty good. The two Lurp guys got some "scope" thing for their guns.

Me and the Seal prefered the iron sights. Well Captain Jackson is calling us to the briefing tent, I'll have to write later. -3/24/67