Just as the Viet Cong and regular North Vietnamese troops used Laos and Cambodia as sanctuaries, the Taliban has used the tribal areas of neighboring Pakistan as a refuge.

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Charlie Company, from the 1st Calvary Division, had stumbled upon a massive underground bunker of North Vietnamese troops.

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Meanwhile, Washington accused Sihanouk of allowing North Vietnamese troops passage through his country.

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As his company lies incapacitated by dehydration, as weather and geography prevent resupply from helicopters while the company is pinned down by North Vietnamese troops, the captain orders the medics called "squids" to pull the IVs from the wounded in order to hydrate the "effectives" functioning soldiers so that they can survive the next assault by the enemy and continue the mission.

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