Gia Vuc is about 80 miles southwest of Danang and about mid-way to Laos.  
The Hre are one of the large subgroups of the Montagnards with an estimated 150,000 people in the 1960s.  
Hre had been fighting since the early 1950s -- some with the French, some with the Viet Minh/Viet Cong. 
Our Special Forces camp is an old French-built camp; the minefields in front still have some French mines 
in them and some of the Hre tribesmen speak a little French.  
Running through the middle of our compound are bits and pieces of an old French road that once linked 
Kontum and Quang Ngai.

Oh! Beautiful rose, don’t you know I can’t go there in the barbed wire?

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