VIETNAM 1967 — A PORTRAIT OF HERCULES

A capsule based on my memoir, Vietnam Uncensored, will be published this fall.

Hercules was a tall, dark, handsome Mexican American. He was the perfect type-cast for a Hollywood leading man. His muscles bulged beneath his fatigue shirt, and Hercules was the strongest of the Special Ops team I commanded. He toted an M-60, 50-caliber machine gun, the chain-link bands of ammo crisscrossing his chest…