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Although ingenuity and improvisation can make terrible weather bearable, nothing but strong will can overcome the most harrowing of Korean conditions: terrain. Korea is a series of mountain ranges. If you climb to the top of one, you see five or six more ranges on one side, and five or six more on the other side. It's all mountains. It was hills and hollows, hills and and valleys and mostly hills. Up one hill, down the other, up one hill, down the other. There was so much bombing over there that the trees were almost all gone. The mountains had been stripped bare. Very mountainous and very steep. There were ravines and crests . . . These were rough mountains and we had to bring all our equipment up there. But in a way, they protected us from being seen or being shot. And at the bottom, there were rice paddies, with water that had been there for maybe a hundred years. What do you think that smells like? If you were on patrol and you fell into it, it was pretty gross. You couldn't wait to get back to wash up.