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baba kept on at me anyway and asked , well how about stopping for a minute and tell me about your day . i pitched my jacket on a kitchen chair and continued on down the stairs to the basement . no time to waste now that phase i was ready to begin ! the basement remained pitch dark but the light from the open door leading upstairs illuminated the door to the room that contained the big steel safe . i had been in this basement a hundred times so finding the light switch presented no problem . i flipped on the lights , without even looking , and walked across the carpeted floor to the safe room door . i was hesitant to reach down and turn the doorknob . my mind raced did pa have it locked if he did , what method could i use to get in ? i was going to get in , but how ? i didnt possess a key to the room . pa had the only one , bound snuggly to his keychain in his pocket . nervous you say . i was so nervous , beads of sweat started to form on my brow . i thought i never knew it to be this hot down here . my imagination was playing tricks on me in fact the temperature was quite cool here in the utter silence of that vast room . i forced my hand to reach out and touch the knob . at the touch of the cold metal , i jerked my hand back thinking the knob had surely shocked me ! my mind raced at a gallop - maybe pa had the room rigged with electricity . stop this nonsense ! ' i thought and reached once more and grasped the metal knob , slowly i twisted the shiny round object not fully expecting it to turn . it moved ! ! why did pa have it un-locked ! ! the alarms must be off too ! i pushed the door open and immediately a blast of air from the enclosed room hit me squarely in the face . it was cooler and drier than the air i had , seconds before , been breathing . pa had this room automatically controlled to maintain a constant 50 % humidity and 60-degree temperature . again , where did he get this knowledge ? id think about his reasoning later now i flipped on the lights and there it stood at the far end of the room ! ! it was as big and as imposing as i had remembered . a brute of grey steel but i had the power to slay this monster , if pa would allow me enough time . time ... ! i needed time ... ! i was here now , standing in the room and glaring at the rectangular elephant-looking beast this was the end of phase i . phase ii begins now began phase ii - i slowly walked over to a steely four-drawer filing cabinet . it stood shoulder to shoulder with my prey - the giant and little david . in this instance david had no smooth round river stone but he did have a secret in his heart . a heart disguised as one of the four-drawers . a secret pa had placed there many years ago the safes combination . i remember it was written in code and stuck on the inside front of the second drawer , or was it the top drawer , no matter i could easily check . i pulled open the top one first - no not here . now my mind started spinning again , had pa moved the paper ? what if i couldnt find it ? again the what-ifs ! i forced myself to calm down and slowly opened the second drawer and , presto ! sure enough there stuck my prize , the combination ! it was taped to the front of the drawer on an old 3x5 yellowed note card . it was underneath the front edge of the drawer rim , and if you werent looking for the card it could easily be overlooked ( that had been pas intent ) . i slowly removed the card , trying not to rip it since i had to replace it when i finished . if it werent placed back exactly as found pa would know that i had been prying into his business . as i stared at the card i didnt want to turn it over it was as if i were about to break pas trust in me . i knew that was true , but my curiosity was so strong i had no control over the movement of my hands . i had to find out pas secret of the two gun store 'visitors ' , the black bag and the ford sedan . the answer had to be somewhere in this humongous steel monster . i slowly turned the aged card over to reveal the data written on its reverse side . the information had been written with a pencil , and the letters were dim and hard to read . pa had a workbench in the room where he worked on his weapons . the bench had individual adjustable lights that could be aimed right at the area of work . i carried the card over to the bench and turned on one of the lights . i still could not clearly make out the numbers pa had written many years ago but i found a magnifying glass and with it read the following : rc to lk , then la to ar , next was rl to bh and finally l to e. i remembered it was in code but i thought some kind of easy code .
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then i thought , code isnt supposed to be easy , thats why they use code . i can recall the day pa told me how to decipher it , but , man , i was little . i remember it was a code about something ... . something ? think forrest ... ! think ... ! was it about an animal ? yeah ... thats right an animal . what kind of animal ? no those werent the right animals - it had to be an animal with a long name ; some animal word that contains 10 letters . i knew this room had a concrete floor . walls and ceiling all covered in insulation , steel , paneling and paint but i swear , baba could hear my heart pounding all the way upstairs . my mind went blank i could not think what if pa walked in right now ? think forrest think harder ! grandpa loved horses was horses the name . no , horses does not have enough letters . but for some reason 'horse ' rings a bell in my mind . h. o. r. s. e. what does that mean ? is that part of the code ? i remember now each letter represented a number . horse couldnt be the word - the code needs 10 letters ! think forrest ... ! ! man was i thinking , and this time the sweat wasnt just on my brow it was dripping off the end of my nose . it had to be horse , but what kind ? walking horse no too many letters quarter horse no still too many letters . wait what about grandpa scarburg 's horse that he owned years ago after he retired from the army . it was a beautiful slick , shiny , black animal that won grandpa scarburg a world championship trophy at shelbyville , tennessee . its name ? think forrest ... think i got it . black magic ! it wasnt that because there were repeating letters the a and the c. but what if i combined the black with the word horse and get blackhorse . each letter in that name could represent a number . starting at one and going through ten . let me find a pencil and a piece of paper , all right if b = 1 , l would = 2 and a would be 3 , on and on to e = 0 . now lets see if pas code works : r , that would be right c ( four ) times to lk ( 25 ) ; l , that would be left a ( three ) times to ar ( 38 ) ; r , right again ( two ) times to bh ( 16 ) and then l , left to zero . great ! ! thats it ! ! i hope not , maybe baba wasnt listening anyway . phase ii was progressing like clockwork . now came the test i moved over to the safe , grabbed the dial tightly as tho i thought it was going to pull away from me and started twirling the cold stainless steel cylinder between my fingers . i remembered pa saying first you had to turn the dial a few times to get the tumblers back in order . did he say right or left ? i took a chance and twirled the hell ( sorry heck ) out of the knob to the right . i stopped on the number 25 . next i twisted the thing to the left three complete turns and stopped on number 38 . back to the right i went two more times and stopped on 16 . here is where i was confused , the card said left to zero - there were two lines inscribed on the dial , one at the zero and another at the number 68 . pa told me something about that second line but what ? again think forrest ! well nothing ventured , nothing gained , so i turned the dial left to zero and grabbed the handle and pushed down . it was still locked ! ! had i missed a number ? did i spin the thing in the wrong direction ? what had i done wrong . i went through the whole set of instructions again - again a no go , it didnt open . i stood staring at my big steel enemy standing there before me thinking , i guess , if i looked hard enough at it , it would have compassion on me and swing open . time was running out on phase ii , the drips of sweat had changed to a flood but i had to try once again . this time when i got to zero i grabbed the handle pushed down and turned the dial from zero left to the 68 . ola ! ! it opened ! ! who says miracles do not happen ? one just did . i wish someone had been here to witness it what am i saying . im sure glad no one was here to witness it . i wonder if pa has hidden cameras in herenahwell its too late now anyhow . the big gray , one-ton puzzle is wide open ! chapter eight guts of the 'monster ' revealed i slowly began to swing open those heavy giant doors ; however , my conscience still nagged me . my mine was tormenting my conscious . thinking as i looked into the safes innards , pa will be mighty disappointed at me my brain kept saying . i wanted pa to have faith in me .
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in my heart i knew this was wrong , but dont blame me , you have to remember im a kid and kids do stupid thing . pa will forgive me someday ( maybe ) . i loved my pa , and i would rather have his trust than almost anything else , but darn it , he must understand - i had the plan . with me knee deep into phase ii , there was no turning back now . i gently opened both doors and like magic the contents of the safe became visible . the safe contained three shelves at the top and a large open area at the bottom . the shelves were full of all sorts of different types items . the material on the top shelf caught my eye first - stacks and stacks of money . how much , zillions and zillions i suppose , all bundled up in $ 100 benjamin franklins . the band around each bundle said one thousand dollars . next to the bills , stacks of shiny gold coins i picked up one , a u.s. $ 20 gold piece . hundreds of them and they all looked the same , brand new . handguns filled that shelf too , most i didnt recognize . a few i had heard pa talk about some were wwii army .45s and one had been shown to me just a few months ago a .357 caliber colt python revolver . boy , what a beautiful gun . whoops , i called this piece of machined exquisiteness a gun , but what other name could i call this gorgeous piece of metal oh yeah , forgot a revolver a beautiful revolver ( better pa ? ) . the next shelf contained only jewelry . gold rings , rolex watches , emerald and ruby bracelets , diamond earrings and all kinds and brands of pocket watches filled the entire shelf . pa , not only a gun dealer , was also a pawnbroker . i suppose most of this booty came from that business . there was one unusual item , i guess it was a clock that i picked up and studied . it had to be the most beautiful clock that id ever seen ; well actually , i 'm calling it a clock , it was too big for a watch . this thing had six sides , a glass face and appeared to be made of gold and silver . i would guess it was about 6 across and maybe an inch or so thick . there were a number of little knobs and buttons on the sides . there was no name on the face just led places for the date and time , i suppose . they were not lit up . it seemed broken - its battery must be dead , or it needed winding , i didnt know and really didnt care . i sat it aside since i knew nothing about watches and clocks and besides they didnt seem to offer a clue to the secret i was searching for so i moved on to the third shelf . that shelf contained a whole different assortment of items . it contained stacks and stacks of folders , envelopes , and papers of all sorts . i saw small blue leather boxes with names of army medals embossed on the outside , bronze star , silver star , and boxes and more boxes with different names . i didnt focus my attention on any of this because i was looking for something connecting pa to the two strangers . i discovered a number of thick green army plastic folders when opened contained certifications of military awards to grandpa and pa scarburg . grandpa scarburg ? pa scarburg ? i took them all out and placed them on the floor so i could see them better . in all , i ended up with three stacks . * * * * * on top of one stack , in a dark blue binder , i found one that appeared very important . i opened the cover and behind the plastic protective sheet i saw this beautiful certificate . at the top , handsomely embossed , a five-pointed star grasped in the talons of an eagle both suspended on a royal blue ribbon , the certificate read : medal of honor citation the president of the united states in the name of the congress takes pride in presenting the medal of honor to master sergeant robert edward scarburg , sr united states army for service as set forth in the following citation : for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty . msg robert scarburg , distinguished himself while serving as a special forces medic attached to an american-vietnamese platoon while on a mission to rescue a downed american airman in enemy controlled territory in the republic of south vietnam . three squads had left the helicopter-landing zone ( lz ) , leaving one squad as a rear guard , and were moving out into the tall elephant grass on its rescue mission . suddenly , and without warning , an enemy force , of at least company size , attacked from the front and both flanks . msg scarburg was first wounded while kneeling to treat a wounded comrade injured in the first assault . his weapon was useless a bullet had totally destroyed it .
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msg scarburg saw his platoon leader fall , realizing the lt had been wounded and was lying in an area with no cover msg scarburg , although unable to walk , and weaponless , unhesitatingly managed to crawl toward his wounded lieutenant and , through a hail of bullets , he was able to get to his leader , administer first aid and drag him to safe cover . then msg scarburg , in full exposed view of the enemy and without regard for his own life , went about administering first aid to the wounded . as he was caring for the wounds of another wounded soldier a tossed hand grenade exploded near-by and severely wounded msg scarburg again . lying in the mud , dazed and bleeding from the nose and ears , he forced himself back up and continued to administer to the wounded . by this time the reserve squad had joined the fight , but their squad leader was down and out of command . msg scarburg realized that as the only senior person still able to give commands , he took charge of the disorganized platoon and began to provide a leadership role that helped regain the platoon into an organized defensive force . after establishing firing positions , he then went from position to position , administering to the wounded and instilled in the men a spirit of determination and the can do attitude of the us army . through his outstanding example of courage , leadership and bravery , msg scarburg was able to reestablish the platoon into an effective fighting force . for over four hours msg scarburg 's directed his men , without regard for his own personal safety , to continue to engage the enemy . by his efforts this small remaining force ultimately repulsed the enemy attacks and caused them to withdraw . after the cessation of the firefight msg scarburg , manned the radio , directed dust off helicopters into the dz to remove the dead and wounded . msg scarburg , still himself badly wounded , would not allow medical attention for himself , until he personally supervised the loading of his men onto the hueys and he would not leave that horrible killing field where so much blood had been shed until all were safely loaded and flying back to home base . msg scarburg was the last person to exit with the final helicopter that departed on that fateful day . msg scarburg 's gallantries in action , his complete devotion to the care of his men at the risk of his own life were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit on himself , his unit , and the u.s. army . given under my hand in the city of washington this 23 day of november 1967 . david e. mcgiffert secretary of the army whoa ! ! what is this medal of honor thing anyway ? seems like the name seems familiar but what does this document signify ? i though grandpa cooked in the army , it says special forces medic in the citation . i found a faded newspaper clippings folded up and pushed down behind the certificate . i grabbed it and pulled it out . the newspaper article expounded on grandpas heroic actions too . they read like lee marvin in the recent dirty dozen movie . the papers explained how grandpa scarburg joined the army when he was still in high school . how he fought the germans in wwii and landed somewhere called omaha beach ( i never realized the germans invaded nebraska , and i was really surprised to find out nebraska had a beach too ) . it contained things about korea and finally a lot about vietnam . there were stories about grandpa being in the u.s. armys special forces ( green berets ) , and his assignment to the cia 's ( central intelligence agency ) highly secretive special activities division or more specific its elite special operations group ( sog ) . the articles said he had been part of macv-sog ( military assistance command vietnam special studies and operations group ) . they said his re-con ( reconnaissance ) teams operated out of forward operating bases ( fob ) that served as jumping off places to go back and forth across the borders into laos , cambodia and north vietnam . the articles further stated some of those missions constituted some of the most dangerous ones in vietnam . in addition to this medal , the article stated he had been awarded a couple of silver stars , three bronze stars , a number of purple hearts , earned a master parachutist rating , awarded an expert infantrymans badge . were both ranger and special forces trained and a list of other medals , achievements and unit awards a mile long . i had always heard an army traveled on its stomach , but this is ridiculous . surely his food wasnt so bad that he had to fight people because of it ! * * * * * i jerked out my cell and dialed chris ( my best buddy ) . yeah , dialed i normally text except i was so nervous i couldnt hit the right buttons . chriss father had been in the army and chris spoke army talk so maybe he would understand what all of this meant . my heart pounded louder and louder as i heard chriss phone ringing . once , twice , three times darn ! ! the phone went unanswered suddenly chris answered . chris , are you alone ? forrest is that you ? why are you whispering , i can hardly hear you . why are you calling , you never call me , you text .
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is your 'phone broken or have you forgot how to text ? barely above a whisper i asked , forget the damn 'phone call ( i meant darn i never cuss , im sorry ) , chris , im in pas gun room and i found some papers saying grandpa scarburg got something called a medal of honor when he served in the army . are you familiar with this medal of honor thing ? chris yelled back at me . `` your pa is gon na kill you ! '' shhhhh , quite dont be so loud . i dont want baba to hear im in the gunroom ! what about the medal ? do you think this medal thing is real ? what does the army give them for ? i talked as fast and quietly as i could trying to get information on the medal from chris . slowing down to catch my breath gave chris an opportunity to get a word in edgewise . his voice had settled down quite a lot when he said , i didnt say you were nuts for being in your pas gun room ... yeah you are ... but i was trying to tell you that medal is the big one ! the biggest of the big , i mean this is audie murphy ( the most decorated soldier in wwii later a hollywood cowboy actor ) stuff . i thought what the hell ( sorry slipped again ) heck heck ! what did some old cowboy know about army medals ? but i asked again , chris tell me what this medal is ! i thought i knew some dumb people , but forrest you must be the dumbest . the medal of honor is the biggest , the greatest , the highest medal you can get ! ! the president himself presents the medal to you ; you go to the pentagon or white house or somewhere important to get the award . the medal of honor is a five-pointed star suspended on your neck with a royal blue ribbon ; even generals kiss your ring , or whatever ... anyway , the medal is humongous ! ! i turned the cell phone off before chris could say another word . i thought , what chris described was exactly what was shown on that certificate . but the name on the medal certificate must be wrong it 's grandpa scarburgs name he was a cook ! i cant visualize him scurrying back and forth across enemy borders with a knife in his teeth , and his face all painted up cooks did not scurry ! come to think of it - they did have knifes - oh yeah ... carving knifes hummm ! i sat on the cold rock hard concrete floor with my legs almost asleep from lack of blood circulation when reality started to sink back in my brain tried to digest what i had seen in all the army documents and the things i learned from chris . it confused me tremendously . my mind could not stop thinking about what i had to do . phase iis clock was ticking ; i had no time left for it . phase ii was about to step up and bite me in my butt . pa would be getting home pretty soon so i must run through this information pretty fast . most of this stuff on the floor belonged to grandpa it was awards , medals , certificates and all kinds of army commendations . some i thought i heard about and others i had no earthly idea what they signified . the main thing was - none of this had given me a clue to the secret . '' a big cardboard box sitting in the bottom of the safe , took up most of that space . i hadnt dug into it yet , but pa was not home either , so i still had some time . i put all of grandpas stuff back on his shelf and pulled the box out of the safe and onto the floor . slowly i opened the lid , not knowing what to expect . did pa have the box booby-trapped ? oh , now i am getting paranoid . * * * * * about the time i reached for the first cardboard flap that tell-tell creak of the upstairs floorboards clued me into the fact pa was home . babas floors are hardwood and when stepped on in certain places a distinctive creaking sound can be heard downstairs . i recognized the creak . yep , pa was home ! phase ii wasnt finished yet but there would be no phase iii ( whatever that was to be ) if i did not find some clue , and find it pretty quick . i slid the box back into the safety of its storehouse ; slowly swung the massive doors shut , pulled the handle up and twisted the dial . all items were back appearing un-disturbed . i turned out the gunroom lights ; the basement was well lit . i walked across the basement to the upstairs door , flipped off the lights and trudged up the stairs and sat down to eat . pa had arrived with our supper ; i began eating a taco , covering it with hot sauce when i felt i needed to say something , hey pa ! what you been doing ? i think i surprised him , for i am not usually this talkative .
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he turned to me , his mouth dripping red hot sauce , and said , hey ... to you too , forrest . nothing , ive been doing nothing , nothing at all , absolutely nothing ! i think ill eat a taco . '' pa looked at me kinda weird and said , forrest you are eating a taco ! ! i was as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs so my attempt at conversation didnt even sound intelligent . say forrest , you and i havent shot any pool in a long-time , what say we go downstairs and find out if you can beat the old man ! i bet you are getting pretty good . my mind kept racing what to say what to sayuh , pa what about the days receipts ? after we eat you have to finish those , dont you ? yeah , your right but what about when i get through ? immediately something like a bolt of lightning came down from the sky and popped me a good one , jarring my brain . i remembered i had forgotten to put that yellowed 3x5 note card back into the file cabinet drawer where pa had the combination safely hidden . it totally slipped my mind to return it . now the card was lying there , totally exposed , on pa 's workbench . i could almost sense it yelling 'here i am pa come find me ! i had to make an excuse , any excuse to not go back down to the basement . pa probably wouldnt go into the gunroom but what if he did ? my brain continued to spin . i felt hot real hot and i thought i could feel sweat forming on my brow ! surely not sweat and the temperature below freezing outside ! pa saw it too , i could feel him staring - sweat ... he knew something was wrong . every time he took a crunchy bite of his taco he would look over at me with that i know you are guilty of something look . get a hold of yourself forrest , i said to myself . youre not sweating ! pa doesnt know anything . your mind is playing tricks on you - see pas expression hasnt changed , he isnt aware of your actions . but i must figure a way to get out of this pool game somehow . i finally said , pa you have had a long day , and i have too , why dont we shoot some pool tomorrow . i think i want to go into the den , lie on the couch , and turn to sportscenter on tv . oh okay , im a little tired myself . i began to concoct the finish to phase ii . i will go into the den , baba would make me a bed on the couch , and i will pretend to fall asleep . when everyone is sound asleep i will slip back downstairs and finish phase ii . yeah , a good plan , i thought . baba had gone to bed around 10:30 and pa and i continued watching the sportscenter . i thought , this is working out fine . pa will go to bed in a little while , and i can get back to my rat killing . ( oh , this tidbit is an old saying that my nanny scarburg used to say . ) hummm rat killing ! now that got me to wondering reckon what that meant before i had a chance to answer my own question , pa suddenly exclaimed , forrest i almost forgot to tell you , i taped the nba all-star slam dunk championship ! you want to watch the program ? had pa gone crazy of course i wanted to watch that contest was one of my favorites . the slam dunk contest was always during the nba all star weekend , and i never missed it . forgetting for a moment about phase ii i glued my eye-balls to pas 52 hd sony so as not to miss a move or twist of nate robinson on all his tremendous 59 frame pull off his magic again ; also the star dwight howard of the orlando magic appearing to float through the air and the man gerald green from the boston celtics . whats with these guys ! ! they are great well i guess with the money they make , theyre supposed to be . for a little while i let my mind rest and i forgot about the two dudes , the leather satchel , the ford sedan , the awards , the military medals in the gunroom and phase ii . right now it was basketball all basketball . nothing finer than to be curled up on babas couch watching her big screen tv . she had provided me with a huge down-filled pillow , a sheet to lie on , a warm comforter to cover up in and a cool soda on the end table . before she went to bed she had even cooked me some cheese sausage balls to nibble on . before the slam dunk finished i nodded off to sleep , no longer than maybe for a minute , mind you . when i opened my eyes i looked over at pas recliner and he was gone ! how long i did not know had he gone to bed i did not know why didnt i stay awake i did not know asleep ! i went to sleep ! ! phase ii depended on me sneaking back downstairs after everyone was asleep , pa and baba asleep not me ! !
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my whole the plan depended on this ! ! my brain was screaming at mestupid ... ! stupid ... ! why did you go to sleep ! ! ! i tiptoed down the hall toward pas room good pa had turned his lights off . i turned and went into the bathroom ( in case he had heard me ) . i waited , trying not to breath , straining my ears to detect whether pa and baba had fallen asleep or not . i pressed my ear to the wall hoping to hear baba mumbling or pa snoring in his sleep . did i think i had microphones for ears ? enough of this they are asleep , time to put my sleuth hat back on . come on phase ii * * * * * i ventured down the hall , trying not to step on the creaking hardwood boards . descended the stairs and ever so slowly opened the basement door . leaving the door ajar , for light , i walked very quietly across the floor to the gunroom , never turning on the basement lights . silently i entered the room . i tried to snap the light switch on as quietly as i could ( am i stupid quietly - loudly ! for goodness sake the things a light switch , okay ) . i hurriedly retrieved the combination card , ( thank you god ) from the workbench and approached the hunk of steel again . i boosted my courage telling myself i had bested him once before and he will be mine once again . turn right to 25 , left to 38 , right to 16 , left to 0 , push the handle and turn to 68 . ah hathat strong metallic click signaled i had triumphed again . i pulled the handle and the first door swung open . next , i reached out and felt the cold hard steel of door number two . i pulled - the door swung wide open without effort . lying in the bottom , exactly where it had been left the box . i slid the big cardboard container out of the safe and onto the floor . my excitement was beginning to overwhelm me . i immediately wanted to tear into its hidden secrets ; however , i said to myself , slow down , be calm , you have plenty of time . and besides , i did not want to make any racket or noise . i reached out , grasped the first cardboard flap , pulled it open and continued to unfold the next three . now the brown lifeless box lay before me totally exposed . for some unknown reason my mind flashed to a body on an autopsy table , all opened up and waiting for the forensics expert to uncover what had caused its demise . i was the expert now and the innermost secrets of my cardboard body lay awaiting my scalpel hands . the box contained a number of folders belonging both to grandpa and pa scarburg . most appeared to be a cream colored brown , and all military because the words u.s. army , u.s. government , classified , confidential , secret and even top secret , or some military numbers were stamped all over the fronts . a two-pronged metal band stuck through the folder from the outside kept the papers attached , one on the front cover and one on the back . the papers themselves had two holes punched in the top and these mental strips held them in place . i also knew these were army folders because one said : military personnel records jacket united states army if found mail in nearest u.s. post office or mail box . note to postmaster-official . mail-return to commander , military personnel center , 200 stovall street , alexander , va 22332postage for return is guaranteed da form 201 a place for a photograph was provided ( but devoid of any photo ) . fingerprint cards , enlistment contracts , duty assignments , promotions , awards , medals , recommendations , training records , skills , military occupational specialty ( mos ) , citations , marriage records , school transcripts , diplomas , and dd form 214 discharge records all attached to the little metal prongs for me to read . as i said these werent run-of-mill high school english class manila folders . those documents were the real deal . united states of america official u.s. army stuff , yes-sir-ree-sir ! one huge one that stood out had a large red-bordered cover sheet with the words : top secret this a cover sheet for classified information all individuals handling this information are required to protect it from unauthorized disclosure in the interest of the national security of the united states handling , storage , reproduction and disposition of the attached document will be in accordance with applicable executive orders , statute ( s ) and agency implementing regulations ( this cover sheet is unclassified ) top secret oh yeah i thought now this is what ive been talking about i bet the answer to the secret is in this folder . my hand trembled as i picked up this first folder and began flipping through the pages and pages . the documents read like a history lesson . the central intelligence agency prepared this particular document . the cia ! now i didnt need chris for this one i knew about the cia .
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spooks , spies , sleuths now were getting somewhere , i thought . this is getting to the secret of the two men , the satchel and the ford sedan . inside the aged cover a record of grandpas military exploits around the world , and especially while in vietnam . overwhelmed ! to say the least ! but i had to dig deeper to find out about the secret . '' and somewhere in this jumble of papers i believed i would find it . i slowly forced my hand to move , willed my fingers to turn to the first page and let my eyes flow gently across the page . my eyes darted up and down , at first fast , but i forced myself to slow down and read the actual words written . the documents had a musty kind of odor , a moldy aroma similar to the inside of the safe . the pages themselves , beginning to fade with age , were a reminder of a time long ago . sitting on the cold concrete floor my nose not only detected the scent on the documents that i was holding but i even had a hint of the ones still left for me to ponder , still within the box . wait , i scented something else as i sniffed the air - a smattering of gun oil , hand cleaner and gun lubricating fluid drifted to my nostrils . floating in the cool gunroom air was the tang of that odor . pa created that smell and it wasnt from the cardboard box . i was glad , because it was real , not my imagination tricking me . it was here and it was now , and that cardboard box of history i had sitting before me did not cause it . i looked back to the floor and the beautiful clock was still lying where i had earlier placed it . i picked it up to return it to its place on the shelf but my curiosity got the best of me . darn broken clock , i thought . i shook it ! shook it again , this time pretty hard , held it to my ear no ticking . there was one red knob protruding from the top of the clock this might be the off and on switch i pushed it . damn ( i mean darn ) ! the lights on the front came on and the clock started making a funny humming noise sounded kinda like the tuning fork that we used in science class . it was still broken tho the red lights on the dial did not have the correct time or date . i looked at my watch just to make sure mine read 12:15 am the clock indicated 9:00 pm and the date showed 1967 . gosh , this thing hasnt worked in a long time ! ! i placed the broken clock back on the shelf and continued to read the documents . i dont know how to explain what happened next . some kind of weird phenomenon started . as i began to read the first few pages of this thick folder my body began to experience a strange sensation . my head grew light and i had the awareness things around me were becoming disoriented . whatever was happening to me had the hallucinatory qualities of a trance . i slowly became aware that i wasnt sitting on the cold gunroom floor ; in fact , i do not believe i was in the gunroom at all ! ! my body felt as if i were somehow in a dream but dreaming that i were awake - i saw things , but i couldnt touch them - i wanted to speak but was unable to - i saw people but i was invisible to them - i felt like a ghost - being totally unperceivable to them . was i having an out of body experience ? i floated about unnoticedit wasi where was i ... ? i had left the gunroomi was in the midst of a battle being described in the cia documents i i i was in awar ! ! what war ... ? now i recog yes i do now i recognize this from my video games this . this war is ... is ... vietnam ... ! ! ! `` sarge ! ! sarge '' '' yelled the lieutenant , `` incoming ! ! get the men under cover ! ! '' `` roger that lt ! ! yelled sergeant scarburg , in his strong authoritative voice . a voice that always demanded attention . `` get your asses in them 'fraid holes now ! ! ... ... ... ... ... ... chapter nine how it all begin ? ' the cia classified papers in the moldy box in the basement indicated the battle at polei kleng described earlier originally had its beginning when master sergeant scarburg was assigned team leader of a spike team patrol from the i ( eye ) corps area , whose initiation point was in proximity of the laotian border at special forces forward operating base ( fob ) number 5 with the name nah trang . sarge would later find out , this was just the beginning of many us , cia , sog run operations that had as their goal the crossing of the borders into either laos or cambodia .
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one of the very first , code named photo shoot , '' was under the operational control of the arvn government but the on-the-ground authority remained with the cia . in reality it was totally managed courteous of the cia , as all these sog type operations are . this way the arvn government thought they had a finger in the pie . any type of reconnaissance gathering or intelligence missions , such as sarges , fell under the auspices of ops-35 . along with missions such as this one , ops-35 sometimes would try to find and rescue arvn or us combatants who were captured or reported as mia ( missing in action ) . missions also included the capture of enemy prisoners and the conduct of psyops ( physiological operations ) operations in or near laos and cambodia . this operation ops-35 , was funded and overseen through our cia covert operatives , but to remain clandestine they were attached for c & c ( command and control ) to the u.s. armys 5th special forces group ( airborne ) sfga . in the event of capture or kia ( killed in action ) their records would indicate that these personnel were on the rolls of 5th sfga . there were always men who wanted to constantly live with danger as a daily adrenaline high . they loved the excitement of having the grim reaper only a heart beat away . to these guys assignments with mobile strike forces ( msf ) , sometimes referred to as mike forces , special ops or some of the very highly classified missions of sog , gave them what they longed for - the rush from kicking death in the ass and surviving . from the 60s sog was reported to have had as many as 1500 to 2500 us combatants ( both civilian and military ) . this did not include app 6000 to 7000 indigenous troops who lived in the areas . these local troops were battle-hardened soldiers such as some cambodias khmer krom ( cambodians born in south vietnam ) , the south vietnams montagnard mountain people , and the nung ( mercenaries ) ethnic minorities . the department of defenses a study of strategic lessons learned in vietnam reported that intel ( intelligence ) information gained from sog operations on nva troop concentrations and their movements along those sectors of the ho chi minh trail provided valuable intel to saigon and washington . due to the sog ops mission the us had a fairly clear picture of the enemy units in their border sanctuaries and along the trail . however , the us ambassador in laos , william b. sheridan was viewed as a field marshal . the u.s. sometimes referred to the ho chi minh trail as sheridans highway . sheridan , when asked for authority to insert sog teams , he would deny the requests on grounds the cia already had teams working in those areas . sheridan might have been concerned also about how the soviets would look upon the us military actions since he was a good friend with the soviet ambassador to laos , boris kerenski . * * * * * sleep was still heavy in the team 's eyes and a faint hint of sunrise could be seen far off to the east as sarge called his sog team , code name : photo shoot , call sign : bravo fox trot , together , for their early morning pre-deployment briefing . most sf teams would have consisted of a larger force but right now sog was fielding missions with 12 men or less to include no more than 3 americans . most of the time two or three sf personnel led these teams , with team leaders mostly sergeants . sarge quickly covered the details of the mission , told the men to pack lightly with enough rations to last a week . hump ( carry ) as much personal extra ammo as possible , in addition to their 'basic load ' ( 7 magazines of 20 rounds each ) , but remember he said , `` were going light . we want to shoot and scoot . the pig is staying in its pen . the pig , was just army slang for the m-60 squad automatic weapon . a 7.62 mm , belt fed , machine gun ; however , the sop ( standard operating procedure ) required three men to properly operate and fire it . one - the gunner carrying 200 to 1000 rounds ( depending upon his ability ) , two - the assistant gunner ( ag ) , carrying a spare barrel and as much ammo as his ability allowed him to carry and three - the ammo humper , carrying the tri-pod plus additional ammo . the rest of the men carried at least 100 pre-linked rounds with them for additional support . leaving the m-60 allowed lighter , faster movement but reduced much needed firepower , if required . the mission was simple : slip over the border , contact a few villages that some of their vietnamese scouts knew , and try to convince them to work for us . when the opportunity arose snap pictures of areas and trails that the viet cong ( vc ) might find useful , including map coordinates .
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simple , and straightforward , avoid enemy contact , do the mission and get their asses back to base . while out and close to the ho chi ming trail ( ho 's highway ) , they were to plant some listening devices to allow hq ( headquarters ) to hear and keep track of when the vc were coming up and down hos highway . sarge told them the met message ( weather report ) was for rain ( who could have guessed ! ) and for them to get their shit ( gear ) together and re-assemble in 'three-oh ' mikes ( 30 minutes ) at zero five hundred ( 5 am ) . at the appointed time the team assembled themselves in the compound as instructed and sarge gave the orders , saddle up - lock and load . they moved out quietly and in a few minutes they were out of the safe zone and totally enveloped into the massive dense jungle . * * * * * everything went according to plan for the first few days then without warning they stumbled into an ambush consisting of a full compliment of nva regulars . sarge could only guess , but in scientific military terms , he thought a shitpot full ! sarge had been running point with one of his scouts , kam louh . a slight built vietnamese who understood english much more than he put on , was the slack man ( 2nd man in line on patrol ) . sarge knew he and kam louh were better than this - they could always sniff out an ambush . what went wrong this time ? something was not right , they had encountered many ambushes before but they were never caught this much off guard . it seemed the nva anticipated their ever move , was this an inside job ? and kam louh wasnt acting right . was he still on our side ? this nva unit seemed to be well trained , applied correct tactics , had plenty of arms and ammo , and their commanders appeared to be quite capable . this enemy unit was different from most units sarges patrols had come up against before . the vc unit had sat up a perfect ambush , and had done so skillfully . they caught us flatfooted this time , thought sarge . sarges small , lightly armed and equipped force put up a good fight for a while , but the odds were impossible being so outnumbered and out-gunned . damn , sarge thought , i hope the pig is warm and dry back at base , we sure could give him some needed exercise about now . but shit i ca n't blame that one on anyone but me ! sarge put his hand to his ear with his thumb and little finger extended ( hand signal for the radio man to come forward ) . staff sergeant jason harbin a redheaded , freckled faced kid who was much older than his youthful appearance indicated was sarge 's rto ( radio/telephone operator ) . harbin came double timing ( running ) up to sarge with his an/prc-25 ( prick 25 ) radio strapped to his back . sarge shouted , get six ( headquarters ) on the horn ( phone ) , now ! ! normal patrol procedure would have had the 'slack man ' carrying the radio but sarge wanted one of 'his ' ( american special forces ) men toting the prick . harbin , grabbing the handset keyed it and breathlessly yelled , echo six ! bravo-fox-trot , break ! ! ( static ... no reply ) , again he frantically called , echo six ... ! echo six ... ! bravo-fox-trot ... how copy ... ? over ... ! echo six ... bravo-fox-trot . this is photo shoot ... ! repeat - photo shoot ... ! keying again he shouted , this is photo shoot ! photo shoot ! taking fire ! ! need one-fifty-five ( 155mm artillery ) asap ( as soon as possible ) . '' hardin then called out their map coordinates . the radios only response ... frying noise of static . hardin cupped his hands around his mouth to enable sarge to better hear his report , sarge negative . sarge yelled back , keep trying , weve got to have one-fifty-five support ! and we need it yesterday ! sarge thought , even with the long range antenna the prick 25 had a maximum range of 18 miles or so but he thought there was supposed to be a retrans ( re-transmitter ) radio a couple of klicks ( klick = 6/10th mile ) closer to the border but on the vietnam side , so contact to base should be established . he further believed they could not be much more than five to ten miles across vietnams border . come on harbin , get youre ass in gear , get me six ! roger sarge , im trying ! but harbin knew it was useless , but he tried one more time - response , same as before , same crackling static . it was obvious no one was receiving him on the other end , no response was acknowledged nothing was received but but static .
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they were on their on now . one thing sarge did know : green berets do not run . retreat is not in their vocabulary , and sarge wasnt going to let history show he was the one who first broke their unwritten rule . he hollered to his men , `` alamo ... ! ! alamo ... ! ! ( a military slang to form up into a defensive fighting position ) . the men all lightly armed , circled up in a defensive position and were determined to giveem a fight , no matter the odds . sarge was tenaciously resolute that he was going to be the last man standing . just as that fatalistic thought occurred inside his head the outside of his head was violently slammed with an ak-47 , 7.62 mm fmj ( full metal jacket ) bullet that ricocheted off the side of his head knocking him instantly unconscious . slumping as he fell toward the ground another piece of hot steel penetrated his left side but fortunately sarge felt no further pain . sarges head would have been better protected had he been wearing his steel pot ( helmet ) but sarge never wore the pot he always preferred his green beret . as soon as sarge was put out of action , msg howard automatically assumed command , but he was hit and immediately and went down also . sergeant howard , a big ox of a man , with the disposition of a wounded bulldog made a big target especially while standing up . the only american left standing was sergeant hardin . he was next in order to command the team , but in his mind he had already made a command decision . he believed the best policy was to live to fight another day . he did not agree with sarges john wayne tactics . it was fortunate for harbin that sarge was presently in his comatose condition . the thought of 'running ' would have given sarge a good excuse to administer hardin a good ass kicking ! green berets dont run ! ! sgt hardin instructed the men to grab sarge and howard and he made another command decision - the best course of action was to di di mau ( hurry , fast or faster ) right now , try to escape and evade the enemy forces until he could re-establish radio contact . he knew if , or when , they were captured the team had been supplied with sog maps that had international boundary lines that were intentionally drawn wrong . in case of capture the maps provided plausible deniability that they were not over the border in laos . he also understood that anyone kia ( killed in action ) in laos hq would report as a casualty in south vietnam . sgt hardin certainly didnt want to be a casualty anywhere but especially in laos . and he certainly didnt want his family notified he had been killed in vietnam , when he was really lying dead somewhere in the weeds and grass of the wrong country . he reasoned maybe one or two of his men might escape and get back to tell his family where his final resting place might be . he thought , after the war , they might even come and disinter him and carry him back to the good ol u.s. of a . after slipping out of the ambush the remaining team pushed their way through the wet rain soaked vegetation , trying to remain as silent as possible as they stayed slightly ahead of their ruthless , relentless pursuers . this worked for awhile but being surrounded and vastly outnumbered harbin knew it was only a matter of time before his small force was captured or killed . sergeant harbin was half right - captured they were . msg scarburg was lucky in a way , only a few of his men had slight injuries , himself and howard included , on the downside three of his team had been killed and now the rest were all pows ( prisoners of war ) in the hands of his merciless enemy . he had a concussion and a bullet hole through the fatty part of his left side . it was a t and t ( through and through ) , so unless infection set in , he should be okay . msg howard had an arm wound , but it didnt seem too serious . both their wounds werent life threatening , they just hurt like the blazes ; however , their physical hurt couldnt erase the mental anguish that three of their men had been killed and they were all now pows . as sarge slipped in and out of consciousness his groggy mind thought he heard , in the background , indistinct radio transmissions . he rightly reasoned , the vc were relaying messages of their prize catches back to their hq . sarges fogginess cleared long enough to realize that his team had been captured and were now under the control of the force that he had earlier been fighting . was he dead , sarge thought ? no , he hurt to bad to be dead . his head was pounding , his vision was blurry and there was a bloody rag , posing as a bandage , wrapped around his lower torso .
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their captors grabbed sarge and pulled both his arms behind his back despite the obvious pain this caused to his wounded side . sergeant howard moaned , but didnt cry out , as they jerked his arms behind his body , and simultaneously bound the other team members wrists together . after being trussed up , their captors blindfolded their eyes , and secured them one to another with rope . a crash of thunder sounded off in the distance - the men began their long arduous march to-who-knows-where . wherever they were going , toto they were definitely not going back to kansas . there were a couple of other things on sarge 's mind : his head throbbed like hell and his side hurt like hell too , plus it was bleeding profusely . all-in-all sarge thought , this is turning out to be a hell of a bad day ! ! chapter ten the march the procession walked in single file . if they remained on their feet and walking things proceeded okay . if they fell they were dragged . if they didnt get up quickly they were severely beaten with the butts of their captors ak-47 or sks rifles . this torturous march went on for the better part of a week . their only rest came at the once a day mealtime , when their slant-eyed captors consumed the teams pirs ( personal indigenous rations ) . the captives subsisted on the nva ( north vietnamese army ) rice balls , only given to them during the one and only daily break , and then just one small rice ball per man . a week earlier sarge 's injuries had keep him from focusing on anything but the pain , now he had his panties in a wad over the vc eating their pirs . this was good ; at least now being angry showed he was improving . sarges mind drifted back to fob 5 at nah trang before they left . he had stashed some trading material in his ruck in addition to his own pirs . before they left base camp and before his order to saddle up , lock and load , sarge had stashed away , in his ruck , cans of beans and dicks ( as the troops call them ) , most of the others loaded up on the pirs which were lighter and were developed for the long range patrols ( lrps ) . some preferred the c rations and carried some of these ; however most stocked up on the pirs . actually sarge 's 'traders 'were just plain old beenie weeners packaged in an od ( olive drab ) army can , but everyone loved them . what everyone hated was those god-awful big white beans and that that . ham ( as least thats what it was supposed to be ! - it was ) which floated in a bucket full of grease on top of the beans . however , sarge , being an ol alabama boy , loved his beans and ham , but they had to be heated to melt the grease . sarge , practically raised on them as a kid of the deep south , called them white butterbeans ; they were considered good eating back in his part of the world . sarge would cut off a small piece of c4 ( plastic explosive ) , set this little chunk of wax under the c ration can , take out his zippo and fire the c4 up . the c4 burned with such a hot heat , it appeared almost invisible in daylight . sarge would then search around looking for some wild green onions to add to the beans , once heated a feast fit for a king . who would eat such a concoction the others always thought as sarge enjoyed his butterbean feast . he only wished he had some cornbread to go with his beans ! and a funny coincidence - no one ever shared a two-man tent with sarge on these bean-eating nights either , if you catch the drift ( well its best not to catch the drift , youd be much better off if you stood up-wind from him ) . the beans served two purposes for sarge : one - he got to eat something satisfying that he enjoyed ; two - he got the entire tent to sleep in all by his lonesome . someone jerked on sarge 's constraint rope and his thoughts quickly snapped back to the present and he remembered how pissed he was about those slant-eyed bastards consuming his good eats ! sarge estimated they had been traveling close to 10 klicks ( 6 miles ) per day , based upon this rate he reasoned they had traveled close to nearly 40 miles in the week they had been moving . as close as they had been to the laos/cambodia border when captured , sarge , now believed they must be in cambodia , or was headed in that direction . at night he could hear the thunderous rumblings of arc light strikes on his six ( rear ) , indicating their direction of travel was definitely away from the border .
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operation arc light was a code name given to b-52s , flying out of guam , used as close air support ( cas ) of ground tactical operations . these strikes occurred along the laos/cambodia border or within vietnam itself . sarge knew the weak sounding explosive thump , thump , thump , of the falling 500 pounders told him they had to be at least 25 to 30 miles away . normally , he could have seen the flash of the bombs , start counting one-thousand one ... one-thousand-two ... when he heard the first sound of the explosions he would divide his count by 2 , the answer was approximately how far away the arc light raids were occurring . on the occasional day with no rain sarge could feel the hot sunlight falling upon his face during the morning and afternoon , and its heat on the side of his sweaty , dirty face indicated to him the direction of travel . the trail they were following was just a thin ribbon of mud woven into the dense jungle undergrowth . sarge knew he was in the jungle since he recognized the jungle odor of rotting vegetation and decaying wood ; then there was the constant dripping of water , not only from the plants he brushed against but he could hear it falling from limb to limb from the canopy of the overhead trees . most days the foliage was so dense sarge could not feel the sunlight on his face to obtain his bearings . it was only april but the seasonal rains had already begun . normally the rainy season started around may and lasted until october , but as sarge thought , in this miserable part of the world nothing was ever normal . most days were filled with the constant downpour of rain , the crashing of thunder and the constant didi mau , didi mau ( faster , faster ) as they tried to negotiate , blindfolded , the narrow , slippery jungle trail . even with the inevitable physical violence they knew would follow , sarge and his men were continually stumbling , slipping and falling . at each fall a blow from a rifle butt or a kick to the ribs was swiftly delivered . several times rifle fire accompanied the falls with the inevitable didi mau , didi mau . sarge could only expect the worst , since they were blindfolded and not allowed to converse between themselves or their captors . when sarge began this photo shoot mission he had sergeant harbin as his rto man . none better than this guy , young and green , but repairing a prc-25 radio using only his swiss army knife and a piece of chewing gum was his specialty . electronics was his game , he talked it until they would tell him to just shut the hell up ! his second in command , another american sf on the team - msg steve howard was sarge 's intel ( intelligence ) guy . back home in the world steve had gotten into a club ( translated - gang ) , saw trouble coming and quickly enlisted . once in the army , he found special forces just the thing he was looking for , he fit right in with those sneaky petes . '' he , like sarge , was a lifer . the rest of the team were a couple of scouts and the other eight ( five now ) were vietnamese civilian irregular defense group ( cidg ) troops . * * * * * at the end of the weeks horrendous trek sarge and his men arrived at a wide cleared area . he would later find out this cleared area contained a large wooden structure hidden deep within the mountainous forest . the whole area around the clearing was under an umbrella canopy of dark green trees so thick that sunlight seldom found its way to the ground . if the walking , dragging and beating were not punishment enough , it rained like pouring piss out of an army boot most all the way to this god-forsaken rendezvous point . sarge believed , in his gut ( and his gut was seldom wrong ) , they were being taken to meet mr. big . but who would mr. big be ? who knows , but this bunch of goodyear ( vc shoes made from car tires ) sandal-wearing gooks were not the sharpest pencils in the drawer , you know . someone smarter had to be waiting for them . the distance and direction of travel indicated to sarge that they had been taken somewhere into cambodia . * * * * * upon entering the thatched roofed large log building the smell of wet fungus intermingled with smoke emanated from a fire burning jp-4 fuel ( jet fuel ) met sarges nose . no , sarge thought , it couldnt be jp-4 it must be kerosene . they wouldnt have jet fuel this far out in the boonies and jp-4 is just low-grade kerosene anyway . their captors removed the blindfolds as they entered the building . sarge squinted trying to adjust his eyes to the dim light - a few lanterns and a large fireplace were the only source of this light .
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light , however dim , was the first his blindfolded eyes had not had been used to seeing in nearly a week . once he began to focus he tried to transfix his eyes on a vague outline of something sarge saw through the haziness of the smoke on the other side of the room . at first sarge thought it was the smoke playing tricks with his eyes , but quickly his eyes cleared and allowed the image to become apparent . it was a man , a large man , big boned and heavy . to big to be one of these diminutive piss ant sized vc ( viet cong ) that tried to pass themselves off for real humans . no , this figure was no vc , there stood a man ! ! probably , sarge reasoned , would go a good 210-220 lbs , and over 6 tall . he cant be nva ( north vietnamese army ) or vc . sarge slowly walked forward and closed the distance to the specter ; the smoky haze had cleared and he could see his captors face quite clearly now . the face appeared sun-weathered and rough . its one prominent feature was a deep scar on his right cheek . a scar that began close to the bottom of his right eye and ended almost at the corner of his mouth . sarge thought , i bet whoever did that is no longer bragging about it . but the rest of the face , thought sarge , had that coarse rough look that indicated it had seen and done things that sarge didnt want to know about right now . the one thing sarge knew for sure , he definitely wasnt one of those midget nvas ( north vietnamese army ) . the room seemed crowded . a number of sarges nva captors had entered the room and mingled with a group of vc that were already assembled in the room when the team arrived . a number of the vc were dressed in those boy scout shorts they loved so much . long-sleeved shirts buttoned at the wrists , and yes sarge was right , they had on their goodyear sandals too . a couple of the vc had on the black pajamas ( sarge never could understand whether they were getting up or getting ready for bed ) with the proverbial conical straw hats . they couldnt be members of the same force that captured us , sarge thought . the goons that captured us were dressed in military uniforms . back to mr . importance - he was outfitted in an officers uniform . im right sarge thought , hes not nva . i recognize that uniform ! ! that uniform is ... is ... russian ! ! it is a russian field uniform ! ! seeing the green camo ( camouflaged ) epaulettes with the two horizontal silver stars and the one vertical silver star ( three stars in all ) positioned on two red stripes on his shoulder , sarge immediately recognized the three stars as the russian rank of colonel . it was the cover ( hat ) on his head that immediately caught sarges attention . the colonel was wearing a blue beret ! in the russian army the spetsnaz gru , ( the soviet special forces ) are the only ones authorized to wear the blue beret ! if spetsnaz could be translated into english the word would be evil . the regular russian army is even terrified of them . if this were wwii these guys would be the russian equivalent of the german ss . sarge thought , this aint gon na turn out good ! the russian spetsnaz gru fulfills the same role for the russians as the cia , fbi and nsa ( national security agency ) does for the us , with two exceptions : they are merciless and sadistic ! they are the all-seeing eye of the russian bureaucracy and military . it is a massive intelligence gathering operation involving all types of electronic reconnaissance including communication intelligence , television intel , electromagnetic intel , radar intel and infrared reconnaissance . they report only to the defense minister and the chief of the general staff . even russias civilian leadership is denied access to their produced intelligence . if i remember correctly , sarge thought , they are divided into 12 primary departments and department number three covered se asia . a further thought crossed sarges mind , what would a russian spetsnaz colonel from department three be doing out here in the boonies ? these high ranking son-of-bitch spooks usually keep their fat asses close to the home fires in moscow the real confusing thing was the spets ' always dressed in the clothes or uniform of the unit in which they were blending into . but this colonel was not trying to hide his identity ; in fact , he was showing off and was proud that we knew who he was . sarge though , were in deep do-do ( russian for shit ) now ! ! . i dont mean ankle deep , were above the knees with this one . whatever the colonel is after , its important stuff , thought sarge .
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