Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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,ff ,Q it - '53 5'f 'Z ' m 4 si ' .55 Af'EliH..f5 The war in Southeast Asia has two sides - the pleasant and the grue- some. The side you see depends mostly on your MOS flylilitary Occu- pation Statusj. My MOS is YIF-1013. fEleven, Foxtrot, four-zero, Bravo.j The Eleven stands for Infantry, the F CFoxtrotD is for Combat Intelli- gence, the four zero is my rank fser- geantj and Bravo means I am air- borne qualified. I also wear a Ran- ger tab. I am senior man of a five man Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol nick- named LRRP fI..urpl. Our hattalion sends a five-man team into an Area of Operations CAOD be- fore they send in a platoon or com- pany, to see what the terrain is like, find the enemy, count them, what weapons they have and how they are deployed, find out where they camp and plant mines andlfor booby traps. My squad, in particular, is the killer squad. Our joh is to find the high ranking enemy and assassinate them. I . . i ,,T,x, ,.-. J , P.,,Ug: -if ' .,,1f. M -,:. X' '..qe,fsg+., 1. '2Z,.'1.. . JU'-' f ' Y f -t ., ...Q f - '1 '3 ' ii:fg,1'f X ' f-.'-517' f ,' '3- e V i H fy ,gl gg - -- A .V . .-,-W'-' A s ,-2 -1-:V - + .M 'f'.7ep.3.f- .P M '-:-.-- l - -'Wf' . 4 .3-' -K ,' ' ' v ,. .V+ Ig' I ,V gvw- - . 3 ,Q:...s il. .21 - LA s . . ,wg iM.g.-,Kwan It .TH . .ffftf f . :1'tF1'1'1 f ,, - A .. Y . , T 4 ..... in Q' ' ,. in -2- s ,f fr A.. Q t , U, . n . I ' s . saw-at Q - 1' ,.. a ' i... T... . - M- H Al 3 K -,, , ..- ., . f ., , -, , , - Q- . .., . , - J. . , ,l-ff h - Vina . f ,w t, 5 5, r H V 1- 1 . :,.. .5 Q-.11 -.1:.':- j' - ' ' jr- .--5 , ' -- :'- 'I - - i .f - ' ,ii ,, v . pn . 1 M. X K , i . QM t ' New ' ' . ,D Y ' I '- u ' , -QA. .v 'Au ' Y'9'v-' I 1 V , ,. - .. ,nn --, - A Hs . ' I X- fl. wg -1. ,, , , , ., aa -5 g4,,,f,--., a . 5: ii- 1 'A , -U9 . ,. rwfszui . -, ,tgfggxm , ,ii ..,.- 4 surf X. 1.3, . - , f , 1 1 ew- My ,,., I 4 1 , g,, ,, N - S 4 gg EE?p .. , ..,.,...3u....-. -- .Qi .fp ,ma-V - .-- - 1 ,v , A , A ' J i ' lla , ..d.'?q3 .1291 T.- .N z.f',iL3:.:.1-sL.:a4 :Alw +i-1.1 ' - 1 7

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LETTER FRG I I i I ' there were two papers on campusj. At one time I was a student at the Broward Iunior College and associate editor for the Venetian Crief fbefore As I was sitting down tonight, for the first time in thirty-nine days, I thought I would write to you and let you know what the war in Vietnam is truly like. Maybe you could use some of these facts for a feature fto fill spacej, and benefit some of the students on campus who would like to know some of the truths. AP Photo -

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