"We're soldiers. We do what we have to do." Those were some word spoken by Rick Ward after he made his first kill. Ward was a high school graduate from Long Beach California who without a plan for his future. He has problems with his father at home, and recently walked out of his job, and just broke up with his girl friend. Ward writes down stories but never finishes them. He also wants to gain new experiences so he joins the army. After he tells his friends about his idea, they tell him that he is crazy and most likely that he would be sent to Vietnam for war. But he doesn't care; he still enlists.

Once he enlists he starts his training; which he thinks its easy. Ward was put an 173rd Airborne Brigade and later was sent to the Charlie Rangers. That was a group in which consists of a six men who go to the jungle kill fast and move out. One one of his missions, he was sent to the jungle with his team. While walking with caution a Sniper shot Bulldog, one of team members, Ward got down and shot the Sniper down. After getting to safe zone, he realizes what he had done. He had killed someone. All of a sudden he stared to think about everything, about the man's family but he decided not to.

I would recommend this story to those who like the military and how the war was. The author Dean Hughes describes his story "Search and Destroy" with horrific details on how the Vietnam war had been. ( )