This is Jocco Podcast number 258 with me, Jocco Willink. Several AK-47s open fire

before the King B's wheels touch down. Nonetheless, black in the remaining three

Vietnamese ST Alabama team members exited the H-34. As the King B lifted off,

the NVA gunfire increased significantly and moments later the laboring

Sikorsky H-34 crashed. Although this was Black's first sawg mission into

Prairie Fire, he knew the odds were stacked against ST Alabama. He and Cowboy

argued vigorously for an immediate extraction. The team had been compromised.

The element of surprise was gone. The other American who had not gone through

special forces qualification course at Fort Bragg remained silent.

No, said the new one zero. I'm an American. No slant eyed son of a bitch is

gonna run me off. Watkins offered the one zero a chance to extract. The offer was

declined. The team was to continue. The team leader ordered the point man to walk

down a well-traveled trail away from the LZ into the jungle. Black, Cowboy, and

the point man, Hoa argued against heading down the trail. The first rule of

Rekon was to never use trails, especially well-traveled ones. The one zero

pulled rank and ordered the team to move down the trail with Hoa leading the

way and the elder Green Beret following a short distance behind him. The trail

wound into the jungle and curved to the left. ST Alabama moved cautiously as

the team went down the trail. It moved parallel to a small rise on its right.

That was about 10 to 20 feet above the team. On it, the NBA Colonel had quickly

assembled a force of 50 NBA soldiers who set up a classic L-shaped ambush.

The quiet of the early morning jungle was shattered when the NBA troops opened

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