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Follow the Leader: A cigar-puffing, chest-thumping Green Beret sergeant leads a patrol of motley Montagnards. One of them wears sandals, hardly fit for marching much less for protecting against hidden enemy punji sticks. (Courtesy Gene Basset)
Courtesy Gene Basset