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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
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We got our yards from the local surroundings which consisted of 6 villages and for all intents and purposes had just about everyone, with the exception of the village chiefs, the very old and the very young in one of our 6 companies. We realized that we needed to start a training program for those youngsters that were coming of age and started an "F" Troop of youngsters. We trained the recon platoon to perform as trainers under our supervision and ran a 8 week program and for the graduation exercise the "F" Troop graduates would accompany us on an operation . Now remember these kids are really kids, I'm talking 12 years old to 14. On the first operation we went into an old abandoned Phrench plantation area that had an abundance of grapefruit trees, pineapples and assorted other stuff. We moved in, set up a perimeter and checked the area out, showed them how to secure the area, set up ambushes and plan a covered withdrawal. After we were satisfied that they had grasped the basics we sent them on to man a resupply LZ and brought up the rear sterilizing the area as we left. The main body was about 10 minutes ahead of us before we pulled out. As soon as we hit the surrounding jungle we noticed shreds of grapefruit rinds littering the way. They evidently felt that had earned the right to relax as no one was in the area and it was like following the yellow brick road until we closed on the end of the damn column and caught the perpetrators. Kids are kids in every culture and the yards were no exception. We did make contact shortly after that and they responded perfectly.
Jack Moroney