Chris, I have really enjoyed your work and I have learned a lot, especially as it involves police work.

I know this is off topic, but I would love to see an article from you on how to assist a police officer as a civilian, especially as an armed civilian. What should I do if I see an officer by himself wrestling someone to the ground and having trouble? What if I see an officer in a shootout, how should I respond as an armed citizen?

Anyway, thanks for everything you have written so far! I still go back and reread old articles you have written just to keep learning. Thanks!

How did that happen, and how’d it go?

There is still history to be written. I’ve known about Dale Due for some time and knew the Corps had correspondents and photographers in uniform (and in combat), but Hasford’s book was the only one I’d seen from one of them. Roth was an 03 and Huggett was an infantry officer, like Webb.

What’s crazy is that so few people know about them. I’ve studied quite a bit of Vietnam War history, plus read The Short-Timers, and had no idea they existed. They should get their own movie.