After basic training at Fort Dix, N. J., and advanced infantry training down in the Deep South at Fort Polk, La., he was in South Vietnam’s sultry Mekong Delta by January 1967, far away from the snows of the Buffalo Niagara region.
But Kunkel hardly had time to catch the rays of the Vietnam sun. Blazing fire-fights were often the order of the day.
“It was surreal. I was at small-fire
support bases. The vast majority of the time we were fighting against the Viet Cong. It was seldom you saw them. It was like fighting a ghost.”
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