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In January 1968, the 26th Sea Regiment was bought to a place in the very far northwest part of South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. John Corbett, an untested alternative in a clean, renewable uniform, and his fellow leathernecks were responsible for building and defending the battle base, and positioning positions on the tactical hills looking over the Ho Chi Minh Trail as it crossed into Laos and South Vietnam from near by North Vietnam. Only days after Corbett attained Khe Sanh, some twenty thousand North Vietnamese troops surrounded the bottom, outnumbering the North american Marines seven to 1. What adopted over the next seventy-seven days became one of the deadliest fights of the Vietnam Warfare - and one of the biggest battles in military history. Private First Class Corbett, an "ammo humper" within an 81mm mortar section, made do with little or no sleep for days at a time. The adversary bombarded the bottom incessantly, and Corbett's mortars delivered the fire, night and day. Extremes of temperature, cool, and fog put into the misery, as does all types of wounds and injury too slight to justify evacuation from frontline positions. The mental toll was huge as the Marines observed their friends put up with and perish every day of the siege. Corbett relates these experience through the sight of an eighteen 12 months old but with the mind and maturity of a man now in his fifties. His history of life, fatality, and growing up on leading lines at Khe Sanh talks for every one of the Marines swept up in the epic siege of the Vietnam Warfare.
