Veterans of the Vietnam War’s LRRP units talk about how they got into the military, and took jobs in Long Range Recon in which six-man teams went into the jungle behind enemy lines for days at a time. Watch ‘Shadows in the Jungle,’ Episode 1: “I’d like to offer you a job...”
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