Fighter Patrols and Rules of Engagement

From the time you left that, your lines until you got back home you were account... I don’t know if I can explain it. It’s the amount of alertness that you would experience is something else, especially if it’s a fighter patrol because you..., all hell can break lose at any time and you know it. You had pinpointed areas of concentration, known areas of concentration of our [inaudible] and you would, these places you would approach with great caution and sometimes this is as far as you would go because why make noise and movement if you can engage without doing that. For instance, if you know where these people are going to be it makes sense to find that location, set up and wait. The order was to engage.... What’s the term that they use these days and they used it then too, rules of engagement and they were well established and we didn’t go into the valley for, with a fighter patrol to not engage. When the time was right, we engaged.