Learned fast in Nam, you want your officers and NCO's from the South but any place but CA & NY. Generalization to be sure but I would not be here today if not for a officer named Culpepper from Charleston and the toughest guy I ever met Merritt, from Lake Charles Louisiana, who happened to be black. As a rule the folks from the South and Mid West have a very rigid value system. Good points and bad points in it I guess but I have no problem with it.

Oh yes almost forgot, I went down and they refused to leave me behind. Got no idea how they pulled it off but it was two hours of hell to the LZ and they never waivered. I can do values.