Personal Narrative: My First Vietnam War

I stepped on to the blacktop of the airbase in northern Ukraine, we were on the front lines of war. we shared the base with all but the army branch of most of Nato’s countries it was rather large but split into multiple divisions. I walk down to the coms office to be briefed for the mission that was on hand to us. I sat next to A person who spoke what seemed to be french… I was never good with second languages. There was A video on A big screen that had multiple different captions. it was in English and A bunch of captions that looked really confusing. I took notes on my tablet about the mission. Our mission was to go out on a 5 man fire team to scout out enemy territory. We were warned about the dangers about the area, they stated that there …show more content…
I took the stock of my rifle and hit it multiple times but also no results I stopped to avoid hurting my rifle. I unlaced my boots and slipped my foot out and then tried pulling, I tried a lot longer then it finally came free. My body was numb but now is not I slowly started to feel the cold on my body. and also the pain. I had removed my helmet in the flight for more comfort, My head had started to bleed I dressed my wound with the proper gauze then took the helmet off of my comrade and took his m16A-7 I made sure I was not bleeding and searched for A radio. I opened pilots compartment in the cab but nothing, I looked behind the seat and found A geographical map of the area and the flight plan, by the looks of it I was right outside of the map. I go through and refit my backpack I take out the excess maps and notes I keep the paper, there was really nothing to take out so I grab my compass and go to what looked to be east hoping for the best. had my rifle shouldered and kept the assault rifle with me and climbed uphill. I got to the top to only be met with more mountains. I looked