Raymond Hunter Pyle > Quotes

“fifty can hit targets a mile or more away.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“medic handed out ointment and followed–up to make sure the troops used it.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“For him to breakdown or even confide his fears was a failure, not only for him, but for the platoon also. His fears, if shown, would spread throughout the platoon in minutes. He felt like the biggest phony in the Army. The platoon had convinced him”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“How’s he doing?” Slaughter asked”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Master Guns

“We load all tracers for when we hit the ground. Tends to keep heads down until we can get some cover.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“super sun spot cycle. All radio communications are going to be screwed up and undependable for a week.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“29th”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“Each canteen carrier could hold five CAR15 magazines, or four M26 grenades. That was a piece of advice he took”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“anything that would add weight that couldn’t shoot or be eaten or drank.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“closed his eyes to get rid of distractions. He cataloged all the sounds he could hear and tried to isolate the one that was out of place.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“locals, build things, try to organize them against the Taliban. The other is our military”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Igor

“trackers were good and they moved far ahead of the main body, leaving the dogs well behind.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“Give me a waggle if you hear me.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“The last man, Pfc Layton, was the squad’s favorite point man and didn’t say much in or out of camp, but he was totally dependable. His only goal in life was to get out of Vietnam alive and get out of the Corps. He was a good point man because he didn’t like to take chances. Layton was nineteen years old.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, The Beast: Vietnam 1969

“fought in Hue during the previous year’s Tet offensive.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“would hit the ridge at virtually the same”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, The Beast: Vietnam 1969

“Moore told him the team could move right now if he was willing to sign off on the inventory without having to inspect every piece of gear turned”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“overwhelming firepower on the ground and keeping it going until the birds lifted them out.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“PAVN Regiment,”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“LBE with a snap hook”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“Every trail in the area had been built by them and funneled the attacking troops right into NVA lanes of fire. The 1/506 CP also took heavy casualties when their CP area came under heavy mortar attack by the enemy.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“the blocks of C4 off trail in a clump of weeds and connected a three-minute acid fuse to the det-cord.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Jump Wings And Secrets

“The shock of the concussion breaks blood vessels in the eyes and they turn red causing blurred, foggy vision. Your senses are taken away and you lose control of your muscles and sphincters. Your nervous system is assaulted so violently nerve impulses are scattered and your brain receives nothing but nervous nonsense. Your heart and lungs are left stunned momentarily without guidance from your brain. Your heart beat goes irregular and you lose consciousness in spurts of blackness only to return quickly to the horror. The physical pain from the concussion is like falling from ten or fifteen feet and hitting concrete. And it won’t stop. It just goes on and on and gets worse as you cry, cuss, beg. and pray. Defend yourself? Forget it. Rhodes and his Marines just tried to hold on to life and sanity. After a while”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Master Guns

“You’re standing in it, sir, he said. You just haven’t taken the dirt out of it yet.”
― Raymond Hunter Pyle, Bullets and Bandages: A DMZ Story - Vietnam 1967