prof. wiest: one more? john: yes, ma'am? >> [inaudible] john: the enemy's biggest tactic in the delta was sickly to draw drawn c-- was simply to you in close -- less than 25 meters. we found that a number of times, if our plan of advance across thiselta would say off in direction and the enemy might be occupying a series of bunkers, a whole battalion position, a few hundred yards away. if our paths did not happen to go where they wanted this to be, they would not even opened fire on us, because they knew we would be too far away. they needed us to march right up on them. they had the battlefield prepared. they had 20 years to prepare the delta. there are parts of the delta where every single rice paddy dike had firing positions, some with cover, hundreds of them. all a vc had to do is say go over to that bunker complex we dug up two years ago and see if any american units come that way. if they do, shoot it. if we did not have the right target, they would let us go right on by, because we were too far away. they needed us to