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The interview seemed to be either reported badly, or conducted poorly. Either way, the answers were indeed inconsistent, so the subject of the interview may be mostly to blame. (anything is possible). We have no way of knowing.
Oh, my.... RS7 pontificating on the truthfulness of a war story.
For some real laughs, read RS7's legendary "account" of his adventures in SE Asia:
"I ended up going. Not to Vietnam, but to the general area. There was conflict all over southeast asia at the time, and though we had no "official business" being there, we were. I was."
"I was captured. I was imprisoned, and I was shot escaping. Had I been killed it would have been for nothing."
"I also said I made the wrong choice. I would have been better off in prison, and best off fleeing to Canada, where I would have been pardoned along with all the others by President Ford."
"If you look at a map, and see where the Shan is, you will understand that I was involved in a criminal endeavor on behalf of our Department of State. We had no legal right to be in Shan Country. "
"Of course, we never played by the rules. A lot worse was going on in Cambodia then, and we just looked away. Were we justified in Cambodia? More than likely we had "just" purposes, but no legal right. Same in the Shan."
"I was technically NOT sent there to be "in combat" and even though I was shot, I never knew by whom. I have a scar, but don't know who pulled the trigger. I was captured and held prisoner along with 4 others. We were kept in a "tiger cage" (covered hole in the ground), where we froze at night and cooked during the day. Each day of that was far worse than a month in any american prison, I assure you. Our "guards" were 15 or 16 year old boys with weapons they did not know how to use. It ended up making them dead. And making us "free". And no, I was rescued. I was no Rambo."
"I expect that those who attacked us were not military combatants. More likely armed farmers...like you see in the movies these days in places like Columbia. We were far north of where the American armed forces were fighting. We were collecting photographic and mapping information to determine the source and the routes used by the ARVN to transport opium and other drugs south to the war zones, which at the time was a big concern of our brilliant leadership. The powers that be thought we were losing the war because the American soldiers were incapable of fighting due to their use of these easily obtainable drugs. So it became a big issue."
Sergeant Fury would be proud!
