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Ed Barbour

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The Battle of Phuoc Yen unfolded over several days as elements of the 101st Airborne closed a cordon around a battalion of the NVA. Medic Ed Barbour was busy, even performing a tracheotomy during the fight. Near the end, the commanding general brought his chopper in to see the situation. PFC Barbour barked a command to the general who complied because it was the right thing to do. (Caution: strong language) (12:37)

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They were running ambushes every night, hard rain and all. There was a guy they called Country who told medic Ed Barbour about the giant snake he found in an old hooch where he sought shelter from the downpour. (4:55)

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Medic Ed Barbour describes some of the outrageous things he saw in Vietnam including the shoot down of a jet fighter, dozens of damaged Hueys and the explosion of a giant fuel bladder. He also reveals why he can't stand Hallmark cards. (3:07)

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Ed Barbour turned down his R&R while in Vietnam. Why leave only to return? He finally went when he had just a couple of weeks to go. On his return to the States, he entered graduate school to study counseling psychology. (4:51)

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Ed Barbour wasn't interested in any veterans organizations when he returned from Vietnam but, eventually, he got involved, first through PTSD counseling. Then, he discovered reunions. Then, he returned to visit Vietnam which was a healing experience for him. (6:42)

Don Feeney

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The war movies and TV shows of Don Feeney's youth inspired him to join the Army at seventeen in 1970. He started out in the 82nd Airborne but the reformation of the Rangers caused him to go that direction. That was where he was made into a real soldier. (5:35)

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"You can't go." Don Feeney was a Green Beret on an A-Team and he had asked his team sergeant about this new unit that was forming, the Delta Force. Well, that just made him more determined to get in on this new unit. After a little recon of the compounds in the area, he located them and inserted himself to become one of the original members. (5:49)

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Don Feeney first went to Sudan to train their counter-terrorism unit along with another Delta Force member. They wrapped up their work and came home to Fort Bragg. Then he was told, pack your stuff, you're going back. Why? Five American missionaries had been taken hostage. You need to go get them. (6:04)

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The role for Delta Force in the Grenada operation involved a night assault. They prepped and waited on the runway. And they waited and they waited. Finally, after the State Department was finished messing everything up, they moved out in daylight and their helicopters were badly shot up. Don Feeney's craft had the least damage and they landed to assist the team members who were shot down. (8:23)

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After a career as a paratrooper, a Ranger, a Green Beret and a member of the elite Delta Force, Don Feeney retired from the service and started his own consulting company. Their specialty was training security personnel but they developed another service, recovering children who had been wrongly taken by a foreign parent. (6:38)