Vietnam's most IMPORTANT Duo: Point Man and Gunner!

📍 In the triple canopy jungle north of Cu Chi in 1968, Specialist Dennis Morrison walked point with Corporal Ray Henderson's M60 positioned exactly three steps behind him, a distance calibrated through hundreds of patrols to balance mutual support against concentrated target profile. Their survival depended on a half second window where Morrison spotted threats and Henderson unleashed suppressing fire, creating a partnership that transcended friendship into pure operational necessity where two men functioned as a single tactical organism. When Henderson died in October 1968, Morrison walked point with a new gunner whose timing was always slightly off, the missing synchronization a phantom wound that never healed because some partnerships couldn't be replaced, only endured in absence.
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