"Cub Driver" wrote in message

My favorite is in Michael Herr's "Dispatches", where he speaks of the
helicopters picking up the "tarmac" when the Marines pulled out of Khe
Sahn (however spelled).

daaaaaang. Somebody ELSE who's read that book, from which so much of Full
Metal Jacket was drawn. (Did you catch the part about the crazy Marine
named Dale Dye? Do a netsearch on him. He's a Hollywood standard now.)

....well...that went completely off the topic.