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Their job is Camp Bu Krak, a camp of local strikers and their families on a ridge by the Cambodian border, under siege by a North Vietnamese regiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajor Cù Công Mẫn, a former mathematics teacher, commands the heavy weapons around the camp. He teaches his gunners with a string and a stick in the dirt, and he learns the gunship fast: grass fires to blind its sensors, machine guns outside its circle, attacks timed for the hours it has to go home. 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The congratulations come down, and the next orders send them back to the same place for longer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajor Cù Công Mẫn, who fought them at Bu Krak, is waiting. He relights burned wrecks to hold the gunship's attention, has the ring of spent brass measured, and sites his guns where the circle has to fly. A rule says no escort, no orbit over guns, and Strock stays anyway. 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The drops are flown by Captain Hersh Ulberg's Caribou, and Strock has promised to light the valley like a ballpark. His new FLIR operator, Lieutenant Wally Nakasone, says nothing until he is sure, and on a gunship that can be too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajor Cù Công Mẫn, now commanding the anti-aircraft guns for the Kontum offensive, moves his guns between drops and hides the barrels under wet sacks. A fire in the right engine nearly ends the crew, and the drops are suspended. 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