Blade Staff Warrior Short Story

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I chose the story covered by the Blade Staff Runners about the Tiger Force and their happenings during the Vietnam War. Their job was engaging the enemy in guerilla warfare in an especially challenging part of Vietnam. Eighteen soldiers in the platoon were guilty of war crimes; including, intentionally blowing up women and children in underground bunkers, killing innocent farmers, torturing and killing prisoners of war. They often scalped and cut the ears off their victims to keep as souvenirs. Some civilians had their teeth kicked out for the gold fillings. The atrocities that took place over seven months left over several hundred dead.
This story remained untold and buried in the classified army records until October of 2002 when Nick Turse,
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