Cambodia - Philippines - Vietnam

Sep. 14, 1965 - Da Nang, South Viet Nam - The young boy carrying the carbines and wearing tennis shoe-style combat boots and camouflage Tiger Suit fatalities looked no more than 14 years old. He said his name was Chau To Ha and insisted, with a grin, that he was 18. I don't think he is, but I take his word for it'. said the U.S. Special Forces sergeant. The boy was a Nung, an ethnic minority group od Chinese descent, and the American Special Forces teams here in View nam ate happy to get and work with Nungs young or old. The Nungs are straight out mercenaries who've been hiring to various armies for a long time. They have no ambitions or interest in the turbulence of Vietnamese politics. A lot of Nungs in the unites now being led by American Special FForces men fought for the French aganist the Viet Minh, and there were Nungs aming tyhe last-ditch defenders at Sien Bien Phi in 1954. They are tough and proud and colorful troops, Mostly Buddhists they choose one of their men to carry five incense sticks for use in religous ceremonies when they go out on a combat mission. It is an honor to get the assigment and the chosen man jams the sticks into the bolt of his carbine. On the Way home, if it has been a victorious operations. They kill a pig to celebrate. They're Aggrssive, they're goo solders said.Special Forces Capt. Steve Sosa of Artesian. N.M. who commands the Nung detch ment here. They've been in some tight spots and they've never run out, he said. Sosa didn't say it, but aggressivencess and willingness to. Chau To Ha: A straight mercenart at 18-or is it 14?

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