Bob Martin enlisted in the Army in 1963, did four tours in Vietnam, earned a Silver Star, three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star with “V”; survived combat operations with the 1st Cavalry Division in 1965, a stint walking point with a recon platoon in the 101st Airborne Division, a period advising with Special Forces, and numerous searchanddestroy missions with the 173rd Airborne. After the war, he stayed in the Army and retired in 1983.

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Chapters
0:00 Childhood
1:54 Airborne
6:00 Vietnam War?
6:36 Boot Camp/Jump School
7:38 11th Air Assault
11:29 Going to Vietnam
13:40 Landing at Qui Nhon
16:12 Death
19:35 Operation Shiny Bayonet
22:20 Silver Star
48:09 Fix Bayonets!
50:18 Debrief
53:27 Wounded and Evacuated
56:12 Discharged
57:28 Reenlistment
1:02:14 101st Airborne Division
1:03:33 Welcome to Recon
1:11:52 Hot LZ
1:22:52 Hoffman's Death
1:26:33 Hand to Hand
1:36:20 PTSD
1:38:51 Hamburger Hill
1: 44:28 Special Forces
1:50:54 173rd Airborne
1:52:30 Fourth Tour
1:54:10 Search and Destroy
1:56:46 Burned
2:01:34 Evacuated Again
2:03:55 Burn Ward

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