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Grey Ghosts: New Zealand Vietnam Vets Talk About Their War

These were then pressure flaked into shape with some type of mechanical lever devise he invented himself.

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The buying public has had such a hard time identifying them as either old or new artifacts that they have become a modern legend. The first ones were produced in Bryan Reinhardt's "flint spear" factory sometime in the 's. But they're actually nice examples of one man's modern flintknapping art.

Each one is a little different and unique.

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True "gray ghosts" are credited to Bryan Reinhardt because he made so many more than anyone else. He passed away in about , by some reports, of silicosis of the lungs. This picture shows four edge views of Bryan Reinhardt's points that were made from slabs cut with a rock saw. The term "gray ghost" comes from the color of the Edwards Plateau chert they were made from. This chert ranges in color from shades of gray to brown and a mixture of both. But when a man's got nothing, he deserves respect. Victor 3 platoon commander Bill Walker felt great empathy for one dead Viet Cong soldier early in his tour.

My role was to clear the kill area and search the bodies. The young fellow who was the first one I checked was obviously very dead, and when I looked at his wallet I saw that, like me, he was a corporal, and a married man with three children.

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That had an effect on me for some time — it still does. In my mind that was me lying there. The risk of being in Vietnam really hit home. Jack Hayes, 4 Troop's last commander, describes the difference between the SAS' and the infantry's operational approaches: They are big and noisy and crash around and bang and leave lots of tracks behind. SAS should be able to go into an area and there's no sign that they have been in the area.

Demand surpassed capacity for SAS reinforcements. Many troopers completed more than one tour. A number of veteran gunners and infantry grunts retrained to return to Vietnam with the SAS before the unit withdrew in February Babbington returned to Vietnam in as an SAS trooper. About men embarked on the selection course with him; seven remained when it finished 10 days later.

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I have no problem with that, even today. The whole point of the course was to find your weakness and to make you quit. If you didn't, they had a good soldier. They stripped you naked, tied your hands up and threw a tea towel over your face. Then they kept tipping water on it. There was electrocution of the testicles.

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They would throw you in a bathtub full of water in the cold during winter They had a telephone, a little generator, and these two cords, a positive and a negative with clips on. They would clip it on to the sensitive parts of your body and then wind this bloody thing up. You're screaming your blooming head off. Meanwhile, those left on the selection course could hear you screaming.

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When it was your turn for this treatment, they'd say, 'Did you hear your mate? Did you hear your mate screaming? You know what's happened? He's dead, he's just died. They were only there in small numbers, but the amount of damage they were able to do got through to the enemy.

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In the Phuoc Tuy province, they used to call us 'quiet tigers'. Brian Wilson checks an identity. Another four Kiwis died serving with Australian and US forces. In January , New Zealand's only Maori helicopter pilot was killed during flight training. Fighting was at close range, in jungle terrain negotiated inch by inch.

An elusive enemy demanded constant vigilance from soldiers. The mission aimed to subdue enemy forces in the Iron Triangle, a Viet Cong stronghold 30km northwest of Saigon. A few names were conceived by sportswriters. Lenox had a reputation for being an affluent enclave. Evan Harris, president of the Marblehead Magicians Gridiron Club, said that the magical moniker dates back to , when the high school football team traveled to Florida and crushed a team from Miami, Observers were impressed by the number of trick plays that the Headers used in the game.

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The buying public has had such a hard time identifying them as either old or new artifacts that they have become a modern legend. Sharon Green marked it as to-read Feb 01, New Zealanders in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Daniel Headifen added it Aug 12, Another feature to look for are places where the original sawed surface is still visible and wasn't removed by the flaking process. A minimum order was a gross so he must have made countless thousands of them.

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