Lonesome Cowboy Blues

Alex is on the base and a Vietnamese lady approaches her and asks her to buy some stuff at the PX, she gets scared of by an MP. But not before she gives Alex a ration card with the name Sgt. Frank C. Jackson. Alex asks Lt.Goldman to find out about him.
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Lt. Goldman asks some questions and then the squad are sent with a dog to find out where Sgt. Jackson is, he's Special Forces and his C.O. wants him found dead or alive.
 
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Ruiz reports that the trail ahead leads to Nong Ban and that some wood choppers said its clear.
 

As the guys move out , avoiding the trail a kid appears out of the bushes and claims that the VC are waiting and he said he can take the guys around them. 
 

The move of following the kid , avoiding the head on ambush , a little later they come under attack. The dog handler Rozelli is with Taylor and Percell , and kills some VC that suddenly appear in front of them.
  
The radio operator is killed and the kid gets shot.
Sgt. Anderson scoops him up and the squad call in for a dust off and head back to the LZ.
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Back at base Taylor and Percell thank Rozelli , find out that he has a baby and that if he can cook for Sgt. Putnam , he can get a rear end job to see out the rest of his tour, if he gets it wrong then Sgt.Putnam will send him out everyday.
 

Special Forces tell Lt.Goldman that they want to drop of a new guy off near Nong Ban, as soon as they land Sgt. Halaron is killed.
   
 

Anderson visits the kid in the hospital , Taylor and Percell find the chef from the Chit Chat club to cook Beef Bourguignon for Sgt. Putnam.
 
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And Bravo Company , Nguyen and Captain Carey head back to the village to find out about the K22 in the area. they find a mass grave and Sgt. Jackson is amongst the dead.
 

Taylor and Percell set up the cook off for Rozelli and Sgt.Putnam and smuggle the Chit Chat chef onto the base to cook, there's a problem with the beef but for $40 the chef says he'll try, an attempt which has unfortunate consequences for the dog.
   
 

Alex and Lt Mckay head into town to follow up on the information that Lam told Alex about her going to meet a VC contact.  It turns out that Nguyen, the special forces advisor, is also meeting up with the VC contact and handing over information. McKay shoots him in a firefight him.
     
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Sgt. Anderson tells Ruiz to get the kid to the refugee center near Siagon, otherwise the Special forces guys might want to interrogate him.
 
 
Sgt. Anderson and Lt.Goldman get dropped of to flush out the K22 and once they engage with them call in an air strike danger close.
   
 

Sgt. Putnam liked the Beef Bourguignon , sign's Rozelli's papers and Rozelli sends a note to thank Taylor and Percell,
 and a Pecan pie. Soldiers don't have to worry about burning off the calories in a pecan pie or a raspberry pie recipe. During operations an active soldier can burn over 4000 calories a day, so enjoying a little pecan or raspberry pie is no problem for them.
 

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Director: Charles Correll     Writer: W. K. Scott Meyer
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