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- I graduated,

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or I got out of college
in spring of that year,

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in spring of 69. And I was
working in Madison and I just

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didn't see any future there.

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And I got decided one day I knew--

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more than likely you are
gonna get drafted, you know,

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so I came back up here to,
so I was living in Madison

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at the time I came back up here to start,

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and I went into the
draft board and I said,

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well, put my name on the
list, and top of the list,

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and I'll go next then
and get it over with.

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So basically kind of
volunteered for the draft.

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I guess when I got sent to Vietnam and,

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and I got assigned to the 23rd division,

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I was assigned to the T5 section
at division headquarters,

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and the we're getting
a little more into the,

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psychological operations.

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So basically that's what
the flight was all about.

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We set up an amplification
system that we put into a heli,

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and then what broadcast
propaganda to NVA visi.

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We had a Aesics Arvin soldier
that was our interpreter.

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And they made up cassette
tapes targeting the different

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VC units or interview
units or whatever they had.

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And they thought we were
operating in the area.

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And then we would go out
and I'd fly at night,

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and play these tapes to these
particular targeted units,

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to let you know get in their head.

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(laughter)

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I guess, I don't know if
it did any good or not but,

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you know, at the time everybody
thought it was a bad thing,

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while it was certainly for some people,

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some didn't make it back.

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And, but I guess knowing
it now what I know now,

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I was kind of glad I did it.

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It was a new experience and
met a lot of different people,

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and led to be a member of
the VFW and just other,

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you know, friends you meet
here and stuff though.