 It's the day that they're announcing where everybody's going and they go through every one of us in that company They say our name and where we're going next They got to Jim McLuhan They got to private James McLuhan Southeast Asia Vietnam, and I'm thinking He's he must have been wrong He he's got to be wrong. I'm staying here So they got all the way through it and I walked up to The company commander there and I said sir I said um and you said James McLuhan was going to Vietnam I think I'm staying here and he looked at me and He he knew I didn't know he knew but he knew he said I'm sorry private But a regular army man wanted your job. You're a draftee and he got it You're going to Vietnam So I'm I'm disappointed at that particular point things just went on and okay This is what I'm going to do and and I got right into the right frame of mind that I will serve my country I didn't volunteer to do it, but they've asked me to do it So that's what I'll do. So I became Charlie company's second platoon medic and went out to the field on the 9th of March 1969 I Got initiated the very first day We hit our first ambush had a man die had a few people to patch up and I shot a man That's a lot to digest in your first day of Knowing where you're at now and in what you're going to be facing But I didn't know I was going to face anything like Tamkey and LZ East which were two of the big big battles that I faced