In Vietnam there were basically 2 ways to deal with it, booze or pot, weed or heroin. Sadly way to many went the dope route, saw quite a few guys ruined their service records. Small heroin containers were everywhere on the ground. Knew one PFC that got severely injured by a 10 ton truck spare when it fell on him, weight few 100 pounds. Seems the medical could or would not prescribe treatment to help him so he went with heroin. Perhaps a way out as he was never seen after he was picked up in a drug test. The booze route was taken by most and there were some mean drunks. One night at the club this E-5 got smashed and started a fight. As usual it spread throughout the club. Was with 3 other Sp-4s having a beer when a chair flew through the air from this fight and hit 2 guys at another table that were just enjoying a beer. Well they naturally jumped into the fight. The 4 of us got on hands and knees and made our way to the front door. We got out crossed the road and sat on blast wall around a hootch watching as the fight spilled out of the front and back door of the club. Crazy drunk that started fight got thrown out back door. Rear of club was elevated about 15' feet due to being on a hill. He pulled the stairs away from back door and was laughing like a mad man. Problem was the "pissers" were only 20 feet behind club and the " run off" saturated the ground for 10 feet around them. Well the guys that got thrown out or attempted to run out back door fell into the pee saturated ground.
