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Another question: what was your experience of soldiers from other countries such as New Zealand/Australia/Thailand? Also, what was putting up with the climate like, with the humidity and heat?

What was your experience with reporters and photographers during the war? and the reception you faced when returning home? Also, how hard was it trusting the Vietnamese around you, was it incredibly demoralising and worrying when you knew that they could be VC and you were possibly trusting them? Thank you for any answers you provide, I've just finished studying the Vietnam War in my secondary school history classes, it was incredibly interesting looking at it from different points of view, but we've never really had anything from the army, more people in the government administrations.

Thank you so much for replying! Your answer was really interesting, a lot of Vietnam war films seem to show a reporter tagging along all the time. In our course, there was also a lot of emphasis on how anyone could be VC. Very few people in our history class knew anything about the war (although we are English) but for us, what seemed so shocking was how easily it seemed to escalate into something so big.