This is jockel podcast number 329 with echo Charles and me jockel wilyk good evening echo good evening

At 1800 the bull and lieutenant colonel sidener walked on the stage

The room got dead silent when the bull began to talk

Bull was a man of few words

The briefing theater was a short walk from our barracks

Inside it had simple rows of wood seating like two by ten boards on short metal poles no seat backs

It would seat around a hundred

There was an elevated stage with a screen we had watched a movie there just a couple days prior

Bull reveals a large map and

Says quote

We are going to rescue 70 American prisoners of war maybe more from a camp called saun té

The target is 23 miles west of Hanoi

This is something our American prisoners of war have a right to expect from their fellow soldiers

We are all part of the same military family

We want these men to know that they are not abandoned by their military family. No man should feel that way

That's why we are going in there after them

You are to let nothing nothing interfere with the operation

Our mission is to rescue prisoners not to take prisoners

If there's been a leak

We'll know it by the time the second or third chopper sets down

If we're walking into a trap if it turns out that they know we're coming

Don't even dream about walking out of North Vietnam

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