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The smoke drifts over the berm, the lead ship lands on it, and a rifle platoon jumps out on the wrong side of a manioc field.
CW2 Ras Hovland, a cattleman's son from the Nebraska Sandhills, flies Homing Pigeon, a Huey slick in an assault helicopter company at Cu Chi. His copilot, Jocko Tibbetts, calls the flight like a ballgame when Ras goes quiet. His crew chief, Stash Kazmierski, writes down every part that dies and what killed it. The company commander makes Ras flight lead for a battalion insertion into a field called Cassava, northwest of Dau Tieng.
Lieutenant Wardell Lockett's platoon rides in first. The north treeline opens, and the ships start going down. Ras keeps choosing new approaches with fewer helicopters each time. He promised Jocko that if he ever called an LZ gone, they would not go back in. Now Lockett's men are pinned by a culvert with wounded they can't carry, and in the treeline an old Viet Cong gunner named Khưu Văn Dậu is waiting for the lead ship to come back.
