Jim Thayer > Quotes

“store it away in that distant ‘safe place’ in your mind to be dealt with at another time,”
― Jim Thayer, Tango 1-1: 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta

“telling the radio relay team to have it land on our smoke when it reached our location.”
― Jim Thayer, Tango 1-1: 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta

“I decided to slow down the weapon’s cyclic rate of fire, so I removed the stock assembly from my M16 and placed it on my CAR-15. It worked like a charm. The longer spring from the M16 slowed the rate of fire, yet the shorter barrel allowed me to still have a more compact weapon.”
― Jim Thayer, Tango 1-1: 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta

“especially the dreaded, highly-contagious ‘Black Syphilis’, a disease so terrible that if you came down with it, you’d have to be quarantined on an island in the South China Sea for the rest of your life. It was highly contagious and there was no cure for it once you got it. None of us realized at the time that most of these stories had been contrived by the cadre to keep us out of areas that had been”
― Jim Thayer, Tango 1-1: 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta