Into Cambodia by Keith Nolan

Author:Keith Nolan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307532879
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1970-10-23T10:00:00+00:00

As an infantry outfit, C/1-5 Mech had few racial problems; so, as their standdown began on 15 May 1970, the appearance of five black troopers from the 125th Signal Battalion, 25th Division, drew little notice. The next day, they numbered fifteen and had laid claim to the last case of beer. The CO of C Company explained that the beer belonged to his infantrymen, to which one of the young soldiers shouted, “Get fucked!” The signalmen, who often mouthed off to their rearechelon officers without repercussions, were cleared from the standdown area by the insulted grunts after much punching, but one of them grabbed his M16 from his hootch and charged back. By then, C Company was assembling in some bleachers to hear a Filipino rock band. The angry signalman emptied two M16 magazines at point-blank range at the unarmed infantrymen. One young sergeant stood up to return fire with an unauthorized .45 pistol. Two GIs were killed and ten wounded. Some in C Company hauled weapons from their APCs and took off in hot pursuit. It was the MPs, though, who found the murderer, and the signalman was eventually sentenced to twenty-two years at hard labor.

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