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I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of Warriors in Their Own Words.

In partnership with the Honor Project, we've brought this podcast back at a time when our nation needs these stories more than ever.

Warriors in Their Own Words is our attempt to present an unvarnished, unsanitized truth of what we have asked of those who defend this nation.

Thank you for listening, and by doing so honoring those who have served.

Today, we'll hear from Colonel John Anthony Cash, who served in the Army as a rifle company commander in Vietnam.

In this final part of his interview, Cash tells more incredible stories, reflects on the

war as a whole, and talks about coming home.

See, the thing that we had gone for us is that we could get a hold of the enemy and hang on to them and maintain contact.

We had all these endless firepower resources, and if they were dumb enough to stand and fight with us, that was it.

And if they could get away from us and decentralize and break down so they didn't present a lucrative target, then

we would have to go search for them again.

And that's what I think

in retrospect was the advantage of

just keeping pouring it on and pouring

it on. We have been told, for example,

that the iDang was really by

design as far as the enemy was concerned because they wanted to give the death knell to the air mobile concept.

That's what all the historians are saying after the fact.

And it's conceivable that white wing was more the same, you see, that we're going to do a job on what's left of the first care.

Maybe they believe they're only propaganda.

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