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Mack Riggs

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As a new guy in Vietnam, Mack Riggs had to sit in the front seat where he was a better target. After he'd been in country for a while, he began to wonder why they would take a place and then leave. Then they would return and take the same place and leave again. This was not like past wars. (3:44)

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Mack Riggs moved around a lot. There were so many fire bases in Vietnam that he lost track of the names. Once he took part in an artillery raid. The guns were airlifted into an area where they shot off a hundred rounds and then they were airlifted out. At least they were supposed to be. (4:20)

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It was pretty country, if you could overlook the guys in black pajamas trying to kill you. Mack Riggs extended his tour in Vietnam because of his quest to finish his dead cousin's tour as well as his own. He didn't quite finish the complete amount of time but he did another tour at the Korean DMZ which was close enough in his mind. (5:46)

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Mack Riggs was lucky. He didn't have to face the anti-war hysteria that so many veterans had to deal with when they returned from Vietnam. He stayed in the service and he lived in a small town so he was insulated from that. But he could not insulate his wife from what happens when you're married to a soldier. (4:45)

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Mack Riggs was there to do a job in Vietnam, and he opines on why they were there and what it was like to be in the middle of that war. (3:44)

Justin Donnelly

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His chosen career path led to being a doctor but after 9/11, Justin Donnelly was inspired to enlist in the Army as a medic. Medical school could wait. There were lives to save right now. (4:39)

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After basic training, Justin Donnelly went to Advanced Infantry Training which for him was EMT school. The prospective combat medic was at Fort Sam Houston, a place he would always remember because of a special person he met there. (4:04)

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He was six four and strong when he joined the outfit. That alone would deter most of the hazing but Justin Donnelly was also a medic. That made him special at 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment. Infantry love their medics, who took care of them on the battlefield and at the party in the barracks. (3:44)

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When combat medic Justin Donnelly got to Iraq, it was hot and it smelled like oil and sewage. He was based at Camp Liberty in Baghdad and his first assignment was a macabre visit to a morgue. (5:34)

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They had no medics so Justin Donnelly was sent to the National Guard unit that was attached to his battalion. They were Georgia boys but he got along fine with them despite being a Yankee. On an operation, after they searched a compound, an Iraqi woman brought him a child with a serious birth defect. Could he help? (6:50)