because it was too many blacks than there should be in infantry.
And take the Montagnards, the brothers considered them brothers because they were dark. They had some of the prettiest ladies, pretty complexion, long hair, and they didn’t wear no tops. Breasts would be exposed. And the Montagnard be walking with his water buffalo, his family, his crossbow. You waved at them, kept on walking. The people in Saigon didn’t have anything to do with Montagnards. It was almost like white people in the States didn’t have anything to do with blacks in the ghetto. So we would compare them with us.
I remember when we was stealing bananas in Pleiku and here come a bunch of Montagnards. Some white guys were talking about them: “Now I’d like to bang one of them.” I remember Davis said, “Yeah. But you get that thought out your mind, ’cause I’ll blow your brains out just for thinking it.”
In the field, I wasn’t about to do nothing crazy. Not like Davis. I got two Bronze Stars for valor by accident. It wasn’t intentional.
The first time, it was really weird. We hadn’t had any activity for about three weeks. Not even a sniper round. We was sitting at the bottom of this hill, sitting around joking. Some guys smoking, eating C-rations, talking about their homes. I saw this little animal run into this bush about 50 yards away. I told everybody, “Quiet. I saw a gook.” Everybody grabbed their weapons, got quiet.
Well, I knew it wasn’t no dink. I had the machine gun. I was just gon’ play with the guys. I’ma get this little fox, little weasel, whatever, and bring him back down the hill. So I gets up to where I saw him runnin’ in this real thick terrain. So I opened up with this M-60. About 20 rounds. Goddamn if three dinks ain’t jump up. They was hiding in the terrain. I’m shooting at them on the joke, right? When they jumped up, I fell all the way back down the hill ’cause they scared me half to death. Then the rest of us moved on up. The dinks had about 100 rounds of ammo, ’bout 12 grenades. I had killed all three of them.
Anyway, the commendation read how I crawled 100 yards to attack three enemy scouts and killed them single-handedly. I joke about it, ’cause if I knew they was up there, I wouldn’t have went up there by myself. Naw,everybody was going, and I’d be in the rear, ’cause I didn’t walk point.
When I got the second Bronze Star, it was almost similar. I took some guys out on a listening post. At that time, Charlie would throw rocks at listening posts to find out where your location is and make you open up. He would find your claymore mines, turn them around to face you, for you to blow your own self away. I told the men, “If y’all hear something, y’all wake me up.”
It was getting close to day, and this guy say he heard somethin’. I said to myself I know what it was. It was a water buffalo. That’s what’s messing with the trip wires. But I decided to have some fun, play with the captain. I told them to radio back we got activity, they coming toward us. And I just said, “Shit, I’ma have me a mad minute.”
I saw the buffalo. And I opened up the M-60. I sprayed the area, threw a couple of grenades, and I got a couple of NVAs. I didn’t know they were there either.
Davis wasn’t scared even when he was hit. He would just go on encouragin’ you.
I remember we was up in Chu Lai, going on an assault in this hot LZ. You got 30 choppers, and the first chopper got hit. It don’t turn around ’cause the other choppers waitin’ for you. We was in the first chopper. When he got to treetop level, the chopper gunner tell you hit it. If you not out, he’ll throw you out. We was jumping out, and Davis got shot in the tail. He never paid it any mind. He was bleeding bad. No question. He was hard.
Another guy named Taylor got hit at the same time. Taylor cried like a baby. This black guy. Davis told him, “You cryin’ ’cause you gettin’ ready to die. You dying,
And take the Montagnards, the brothers considered them brothers because they were dark. They had some of the prettiest ladies, pretty complexion, long hair, and they didn’t wear no tops. Breasts would be exposed. And the Montagnard be walking with his water buffalo, his family, his crossbow. You waved at them, kept on walking. The people in Saigon didn’t have anything to do with Montagnards. It was almost like white people in the States didn’t have anything to do with blacks in the ghetto. So we would compare them with us.
I remember when we was stealing bananas in Pleiku and here come a bunch of Montagnards. Some white guys were talking about them: “Now I’d like to bang one of them.” I remember Davis said, “Yeah. But you get that thought out your mind, ’cause I’ll blow your brains out just for thinking it.”
In the field, I wasn’t about to do nothing crazy. Not like Davis. I got two Bronze Stars for valor by accident. It wasn’t intentional.
The first time, it was really weird. We hadn’t had any activity for about three weeks. Not even a sniper round. We was sitting at the bottom of this hill, sitting around joking. Some guys smoking, eating C-rations, talking about their homes. I saw this little animal run into this bush about 50 yards away. I told everybody, “Quiet. I saw a gook.” Everybody grabbed their weapons, got quiet.
Well, I knew it wasn’t no dink. I had the machine gun. I was just gon’ play with the guys. I’ma get this little fox, little weasel, whatever, and bring him back down the hill. So I gets up to where I saw him runnin’ in this real thick terrain. So I opened up with this M-60. About 20 rounds. Goddamn if three dinks ain’t jump up. They was hiding in the terrain. I’m shooting at them on the joke, right? When they jumped up, I fell all the way back down the hill ’cause they scared me half to death. Then the rest of us moved on up. The dinks had about 100 rounds of ammo, ’bout 12 grenades. I had killed all three of them.
Anyway, the commendation read how I crawled 100 yards to attack three enemy scouts and killed them single-handedly. I joke about it, ’cause if I knew they was up there, I wouldn’t have went up there by myself. Naw,everybody was going, and I’d be in the rear, ’cause I didn’t walk point.
When I got the second Bronze Star, it was almost similar. I took some guys out on a listening post. At that time, Charlie would throw rocks at listening posts to find out where your location is and make you open up. He would find your claymore mines, turn them around to face you, for you to blow your own self away. I told the men, “If y’all hear something, y’all wake me up.”
It was getting close to day, and this guy say he heard somethin’. I said to myself I know what it was. It was a water buffalo. That’s what’s messing with the trip wires. But I decided to have some fun, play with the captain. I told them to radio back we got activity, they coming toward us. And I just said, “Shit, I’ma have me a mad minute.”
I saw the buffalo. And I opened up the M-60. I sprayed the area, threw a couple of grenades, and I got a couple of NVAs. I didn’t know they were there either.
Davis wasn’t scared even when he was hit. He would just go on encouragin’ you.
I remember we was up in Chu Lai, going on an assault in this hot LZ. You got 30 choppers, and the first chopper got hit. It don’t turn around ’cause the other choppers waitin’ for you. We was in the first chopper. When he got to treetop level, the chopper gunner tell you hit it. If you not out, he’ll throw you out. We was jumping out, and Davis got shot in the tail. He never paid it any mind. He was bleeding bad. No question. He was hard.
Another guy named Taylor got hit at the same time. Taylor cried like a baby. This black guy. Davis told him, “You cryin’ ’cause you gettin’ ready to die. You dying,
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