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A fire base on a laterite hill near the Cambodian border is closing in the rains, and the last lift out will be the heaviest.
Chief Warrant Officer Forrest Haverkamp has his orders home in his pocket. He flies a new CH-47A called Second Date out of Phu Loi, with Elam Coldiron as flight engineer and Hosea Pettway on the ramp gun. The ceiling sits on the hill, the big crane helicopter cancels, and the division wants every shell accounted for while the infantry wait on the pad under mortar fire. No Chinook can lift the 155s, stripped or not, and Captain Kendall Pennebaker will not leave his last 105 while it is covering the rear guard.
Vương Văn Thước has learned the sound a Chinook makes at the edge of its power. His men never fire at an empty aircraft. They are waiting for the heavy one, and Haverkamp has to decide what goes on the hook.
