. >> you're not going to be on a firebase, supervising the firing of 105s. you're going to be the if the q fts guy that calls it in. you're going to be out there with the troops. >> yep. >> and your experience so far has been this honest john tactical nuke thing and obc and everything, so you're really going to do some ojt from the standpoint of not that you don't know fo stuff, but knowing it on the ground in combat is going to be new to you. >> brand-new. never -- never had a clue. i always remember this. we were out on patrol -- the company -- and at that time i wasn't quite -- i was like maybe a platoon back from the company commander. kind of in the middle of that platoon. he thought that was probably a good idea and i thought it was probably a good idea. and we got ambushed a little bit up on the front. in fact, rick roscola got wounded that day. and i remember when the firing started, i turned to the radio operator and i looked at him and i said, well, we either get in or we get out but i think we better get in. so i said, come on, let's go. so i took