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Wartime Stories

Stealing Trucks From Vietcong

Wartime Stories

Ballen Studios

Society & Culture

4.8781 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A special forces recon team sent to hijack a North Vietnamese supply truck must fight for their survival after their mission is compromised.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Be advised light vehicle traffic on that road down there.

0:07.0

Hope you know what you're doing. LZ is awful close to Charlie.

0:12.0

Approaching LZ. All clear. Greyhound one, greyhound two. Go ahead.

0:18.0

Rehound one. Get sir complete. Greyhound two, go ahead. Three hound one, insert complete.

0:22.6

Greyhound two, insert complete.

0:26.6

Regroop on me.

0:32.6

Good luck, boys.

0:33.6

Try to make it back in time for beer and bedtime stories.

0:36.6

The Trying to make it back in time for beer and bedtime stories.

0:46.3

All right. That's 30 minutes.

0:48.3

Rock up. Let's move.

0:56.0

Feeling confident that the noise of their insertion into enemy territory hadn't attracted unwanted attention, the Special Forces Recon team, wearing North Vietnamese uniforms and carrying stolen enemy weapons to complete their disguises,

1:04.0

now headed south along the tree line. Moving in a dispersed column formation, they crept as quietly as possible through the dense

1:12.3

Cambodian jungle, trying to put distance between themselves and the small jungle clearing.

1:18.4

Their objective, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the enemy's main supply route, a well-maintained gravel

1:23.7

road, only a half mile ahead of them.

1:26.8

Once they reached it, their next steps would

1:29.0

be entirely improvised. Along with mapping enemy trails and encampments discovered along

1:34.4

their route, their primary objective was to hijack a North Vietnamese supply truck right off the

1:40.4

Ho Chi-Men Trail. How they would accomplish this seemingly miraculous feat

1:45.7

was anyone's guess.

1:47.7

Now skirting west along a narrow foot trail,

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