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What do you do when your country is at war, you are thirty miles inside a country illegally, and you are in trouble? Who do you call when you can no longer run and you're getting your ass shot off? You call your Covey FAC and declare a Prairie Fire emergency. You pray he is in range and can receive you. Then you wait to see if the extraction birds and the gunships can get to you in time, and you hope they'll bring TACAIR with them when they arrive. If they do you might survive. Maybe. If they don't then you die with your boots on and go out like a man. That was the way it was in SOG, and at CCN, SOG's northernmost FOB. You either accepted that as part of the job or you quit. There was no other option. That's because it was the most dangerous job of the Vietnam War