Vietnam

IN THE NAM

My name is Norik Rugget. When I was just 20 years of age I made the choice to enlist in the Vietnam War. It didn’t hit me at first the consequences of my actions and if I had the chance to change the past I don’t know what I would do. To completely understand my story I have to start from the very beginning .

The date was June 9th 1967. The war overseas was in full effect and new young blood was needed to replace the old in the fox holes of North Vietnam. I was 20, young and eagerly waiting to show my parents that I was a man. I enlisted after my second year of school at the local college. My dad was proud but my mom couldn’t stop crying. Nothing changed when the bus came and picked me up at the community center to take me off to the army camp. On that bus were some of my old school buddies I played football with and some boys I had never seen before. All looking as nervous as I was. I fell asleep on the bus so I never new how long it took to get there. It was still dark when we turned onto a dirt road and a pot hole woke me up. The bus jerked to a stop and the toughest looking guy I have ever seen in my life got onto the bus. His yelling made it difficult to see what he was going on about but I got some of it. Something about being shit, looking like shit, most likely are shit, yeah something like that. We were told to unload and bring our bags to our units. That took no time at all. It wasn’t long before we were called out again and yelled at once more. Maybe I should tell you know life at the camp was nothing to special so I might as well skip time here.

I was on a plane, a C-130 bound for Vietnam from California. Again due to my sleep I didn’t catch how long it took to get there. The plane landed on a dirt runway. We only had about 5 minutes to grab our gear and head onto a Huey Helicopter waiting to take us into the jungle. On that Huey was one boy from my town and new faces to learn. Each one held his rifle like it was their newborn baby. I had never seen some one hold and M-16 with such love and care. Now for those not quite down with military terms LZ is just a landing zone. It was pretty quite. I was a soldier of Alpha Companies 1st platoon. I was here to replace the injured or dead, what ever it happened to be. I wasn’t quite sure where we were. Close to Cu Chi I believe, a Vietnam town. The Huey dropped us off at brigade so we could make the hike ourselves to our location. Everyone was either wearing their full fatigues or just in pants and chains of ammunition across their chest. Either way they all scared the shit out of me.

I followed the boy I went to school with through the trees. I gathered he was just following some one else because we ended up at a small bunker settlement just behind the tree line well covered by dense jungle vegetation. I had my contact form telling me all about my duties as a soldier and of course my commanding officer who went by the name Fox which sounded pretty cool. I read the names of the others in my platoon. No one I knew of course. My buddy and I parted as we entered the settlement. I really must have stood out because I could feel all eyes watching me. A bead of sweat trickled down my face. “lost boy?” asked a voice to my left. I turned sharply only to be facing a man who was a good 5 inches higher than me. Now I am 6 feet even so this guy was pretty big. “I am looking for Lieutenant Fox, know were I can find him?” I asked. I tried to make my voice lower to seem more tough. It didn’t work because they all laughed. “Yeah. I know where you can find, him” he replied back in a cocky like tone. “That tent there, best to call in. The LT hate to be disrupted at this time.” he added. I sized him up for a bit longer. He was well built and sturdy. His hair grown in more and his face scruffy like. His uniform stained with dirt and his boots were all worn in. I must have really stood out as ‘the new guy’. I gave him a nod and headed towards the tent.

LIEUTENANT FOX

“Excuse me, uh, Lieutenant? My name is Norik Rugget. Private Norik Rugget I was placed into your platoon.” I called in. There was no answer right away so I was about to call in again but then a voice from inside told me to enter. I did of course and had a look around not seeing anyone at first. There wasn’t much to look at but I could see the LT behind the desk going through papers. Head down so I couldn’t see the face. “sir” I muttered and saluted in my place. “your with me? Fine but lets get one thing out in the open. You listen to me, I don’t want any bullshit slacking. What I say goes. You have a problem, to bad because no one else is going to listen to your complaints. “ The LT snapped at me. “yes sir, of course sir” I replied shakily. Then something happened I wasn’t expecting. The LT looked up at me. The Lieutenant was a chick! I pair of tits. A female. What the hell was a girl doing as an LT. “shut your mouth” she spat. I was standing their mouth gaping and it must have annoyed her so I closed it. She stood up. She wasn’t short or tall but a nice height. I would say about 5’8 . Her face was beautiful behind the dirt smudge on her left cheek. Her uniform looked a lot like the man I saw outside. Worn out and dirty. I could barely see the jungle print camouflage that was suppose to be there. The last button on her jacket was un done and her dog tags poked through. The looseness of her uniform left a lot to the imagination and I found myself thinking what she looked like naked.

She took my papers and looked me over. How the hell was I going to do this. Here I was in Vietnam and my commanding officer is a girl. That means no fun guy to guy talk about pussies and ass, just by the book actions. Then I thought about how maybe being the only women maybe she was like the platoon pass around. She helped all the guys. That was quickly wiped from my mind when she told me to get out and be ready to wake up in a few hours because they had night raid.

I nodded and saluted walking out. She had given me a form with my tent number. I found it quickly and through my stuff inside. I walked back out seeing a group of men sitting by a fire. There were 5 of them and they were all laughing, each had a cigarette in his mouth. I walked over and they all looked up at me. “it’s the lost boy” one called out and I noticed my friend who had pointed me to the LT. “sit down boy” he told me and I did so beside him. “what’s your name kid?” he asked. “Norik Rugget” I told him and he just smirked. “I’m Ink” he told me. “Ink?” I asked. He laughed and rolled up the sleeves of his uniform letting me see that his entire arm was covered in tattoos of naked women. “trust me boy you’ll be getting plenty of that over here. Girls line up to do us” he assured me. Well that was a relief since I hadn’t had sex in a good 2 years since my last girlfriend and I split. The others went in a circle introducing themselves. There was Simon, a tall lanky 30 year old man from New York City. Copper who must have been younger. His eyes seemed blurry and I new he had been smoking some serious shit. Talker, self explanatory. Last but not least was T. Now there are some people in life you just don’t like when you see them and he was one of them. He seemed cocky and full of himself. Apparently he had just transferred from Charlie Company. He had been apart of the My Lai Massacre that took place a few months back. Rumour had it that that platoon destroyed that entire village and left all dead. We exchanged stories about our past and so. I brought up the topic of the LT. “What about Fox” I asked. They all shut up and looked at me.

“Don’t be getting on Fox’s bad side, she is already pissed about being here. Our old sergeant was shot in the leg and sent home so they asked her to step in. Fox may be a women but she knows her shit. Being with us is like punishment. She is on parole for kicking some serious corporal ass when he called her a cunt.” Ink told me. That didn’t make me feel very good. A girl who could kill me. “just know one thing, you have Fox watching your back, its like having 3 inch thick steel bubble around you. She will watch your white ass” he added. I laughed at that. “Now Fox, that’s one fine bitch. Sadly she don’t open up to us much. If you know what I mean. I would do her in an instant.“ Talker joked. “You do the lieutenant, its like doing the finest women in all of Vietnam. She is 100 points by our score and the list is out of 5.” T but in. It wasn’t to long after that before Fox came out and got us up and ready to go for our 1st so called ‘night raid.’


THE NIGHT RAID

I picked up my M-16 I had placed next to a tree and walked into the line behind Ink and in front of Copper. Ink carried the M-79 grenade launcher and Copper had the M-14.Simon was our sniper with the M-40 and Talker had it in for lying the claymores but he to carried the M-14. Fox, like me had the M-16 with a disgusting bayonet mounted. All jagged and un even. We walked through the jungle for what seemed like days. No one spoke and you couldn’t see a thing. I tripped over something and made a large ’thud’ and broke the branch I had tripped on which also made a noise. Everyone froze and Fox came back, yanked me up by the arm and yelled at me about being a clumsy fucker and glared at my coldly. I must admit I was a little turned on seeing her so angry. After only a few seconds of walking we entered a small village. Everyone grasped their guns tighter. “these should be friendlies” Ink whispered to me. I kept my eyes out as we entered the middle and several Vietnamese men greeted us warmly. I was glad to see them smiling. Fox was speaking to them, she must have spoken Vietnamese. They nodded as she spoke and she was even smiling herself. They took her by the hand and lead us all into a hut and lay down blankets for us to sit. There was a small fire and a pot over top. They poured us all a cup. Fox was the 1st one to try it. “just tea boys” she told us and we all drank. They continued to speak but Ink tapped my on the shoulder and he, Copper, Simon, Talker and T all walked out of the hut. Their culture really was quite interesting. I liked what I saw. The tea was good to. Simon smirked “If Fox catches us were so fucked” he mumbled. “either way were fucked” Simon replied in a bitter tone but had a huge grin. “Where are we going?” I asked. “Shh, just don’t say anything Rugget, enjoy” Talker told me. I let it slide and soon I would be thanking them because behind a hut were 6 beautiful Vietnamese girls all giggling and whispering to each other. “thank you god” I head Ink say. The girls came to us. “One for each” Talker called to the group of us. The average looking girl of the group took my hand and lead me to small clear patch just outside the village. She began to undress me. My heart was pounding and I could feel my hard prick pushing against my uniform. It was long before we were both naked and I had her against a tree. She was gently sucking my cock while I held onto the tree tightly. Since it had been so long it took seconds for me to release my seed all over her face. She leapt into my arms and we began going at it hard and rough. My 9 inch cock sliding easily into her all the way.