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Guamanian, SFC Efrin Cruz was 5'-2'' tall and weighed 124 lbs. He humped a 50lb rucksack, a Car-15 with 240 rounds of ammo, 6 frag grenades and 2 smoke grenades and a claymore mine or two as he walked point for team Cobra 1-5 in B-36 (Third Mobile Strike Force, Company A, 5th SFGA) 1n 1968.
We were walking into the Saigon PX dressed in Tiger Striped fatigues one day when the MP guard stopped us and said to me, "You can go in but the "gook" has to stay outside." I told the MP, "You tell him that he can't go in, He's an SFC in the American Army." I walked in to the PX as Cruz told the MP to call his supervisor.
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