Clip: George Forrest Oral History Interview

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00:00:00	WERE USED TO CARRYING.
00:00:04	>> WHAT 'TWAS TRAINING LIKE?
00:00:06	>> FOR THE FIRST PART OF IT, IT WAS -- FAIRLY CLEAR BECAUSE -- BECAUSE THE -- INITIAL WALK-OUT WAS -- AGAIN, PART OF THE LV X-RAY.
00:00:20	BUT AS WE MOVE FURTHER -- GET MY DIRECTIONS.
00:00:26	FURTHER NORTH, THE ELEPHANT GRASS BECAME MORE PREVALENT.
00:00:30	SO THAT BECAME AN ISSUE IN TERMS OF VISIBILITY.
00:00:37	BUT OTHER THAN THAT, RELATIVELY FLAT.
00:00:40	AND I -- I THINK WHEN WE WENT BACK IN '93 AND LOOKED AT IT, IT LOOKED MORE LIKE NORTH GEORGIA WOODS THAN -- THAN WE IMAGINED.
00:00:51	WITH -- THE ELEPHANT FWRAS.
00:00:53	SO THE VISIBILITY WAS REALLY LIMITED IN AT LEAST A PORTION OF -- GOT TO ALBANY, THERE WERE THESE -- THE TERRAIN FEATURE THAT STICKS OUT IN EVERYBODY'S MIND, ENORMOUS ANTHILLS WHICH STOOD -- STILL DON'T KNOW HOW, WHY, WHEN, WHERE, WHATEVER.
00:01:13	BUT -- BUT THEY BECAME PART OF THE TERRAIN.
00:01:16	BUT, AGAIN, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT VISIBILITY PROBABLY NO MORE THAN 100 METERS TO THE RIGHT OR LEFT OR EVEN TO THE FRONT OF THE FORMATION.
00:01:28	SO I THINK PUTT CLOSE.
00:01:29	>> DID THAT WORRY YOU?
00:01:30	DO YOU REMEMBER BEING CONCERNED?
00:01:32	>> NO.
00:01:33	EVERY DAY THAT I WAS ABOUT THAT VIETNAM I WAS CONCERNED.
00:01:37	AND NOT TOO MUCH CONCERN ABOUT ME BUT CONCERN ABOUT THE WELFARE OF THOSE GUYS THAT DEPENDED ON ME TO DO SOME -- CONCERN?
00:01:44	ABSOLUTELY.
00:01:46	AFTER ALL, WE HAD -- JUST WITNESSED