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On the way down, because our Company
policy was to just keep on firing, I looked out across the field and I
spotted a Vietnamese woman, a peasant running away from the ship.
I fired a burst of about six or seven
rounds into her back before we hit the ground. When I was being
questioned as to what happened about two weeks later by a captain in my
company, I told him what we did and what I did, and we both had a good
laugh about it. That was pretty much company policy.
SCOTT CAMILE: I saw a lot of things happening and
being done by guys, and I really, like the emotional thing, I mean you
see your buddy get killed and it's really emotional. Someone you
were really good friends with. Like one minute he's telling you,
"I got a letter from my girl, and I'm really happy, and I can't wait to
see her, and she's going to send me some pictures she's taken.
She's getting her girlfriend to take some nice polaroid pictures of me,"
you know. And then you go out, and he gets shot in the head, and
it was really hard for you to realize that five minutes ago he was your
friend and now he's dead. And you put him on the helicopter and
you just make believe that he went home. You try not to think he
was killed. And then you say, "I'm gonna get the gooks for it."
And you just take it out on all the gooks. And it got to be where,
it was like someone would say, "Okay, you come stay on my farm, and you
can go hunting every day for free and I'll give you all the ammo you
want and you can hunt and there's no limit, and you can all go out
together and just hunt.
And that's what this was like. It
was a hunting trip.
And the more people we killed, the
happier our officers were, you know.
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