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    The Cambodian Adventure
    The Cambodian Adventure
    The Cambodian Adventure
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    The Cambodian Adventure

    By Austin P. Torney

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    A DIA Officer makes a harrowing escape through the Cambodian jungle, after covering the retreat of his special forces unit. In another adventure, an enemy ammo depot is destroyed but his helicopter crashes, leaving him to make his way on foot.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAustin P. Torney
    Release dateJul 26, 2012
    ISBN9781476310084
    The Cambodian Adventure
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    Austin P. Torney

    Austin began writing for real around the age of forty, a respite from working as an Information Engineer in the field of Computer Science, doing programming, an art, as it turned out. He calls himself a humanist, and is one who enjoys the liberal arts, utilizing science, for it pervades every discipline. He is currently retired and lives in the mountains of Poughquag, NY, near the Appalachian Trail. He enjoys tennis, writing, fun, humor, thinking, sleeping, poetry, music, dining, travel, romance, reading, swimming, and life.

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      The Cambodian Adventure - Austin P. Torney

      The Cambodian Adventure

      By Austin P. Torney

      Copyright 2014 Austin P. Torney

      Smashwords Edition

      Preface

      I met the DIA General, ‘Magic Dragon’, at Long Binh, Vietnam, while I was delivering the Army Supply System and Intelligence computer tapes from Fort Shafter’s CSC-PAC in Oahu. My pilot and I had just barely made it back intact from the northern bases. The General commended us, and made us an offer—on the spot. We signed up.

      The DIA had its own military arm; it was a phantom limb. All this and more I learned—as a fine end to a long and desperate day of flying in a wounded helicopter.

      Dedication

      Somewhere, in the darkest night peace will come, as the spirit flies, as we weave a spell by another name, one that causes the snow to fall with the summer rain in the Cambodian Jungle.

      I flee though the jungle, as the boy who was once on the cross country team. Then I will come to you, my love, with the passing of the days, and I will set you free each time, your round-eyed, half-bred beauty to be more appreciated in Hawaii, where East ever meets West, and blends, and will remove the chains that bind the heart and the mind.

      Innocents may die, and wiser men will yet remain the same, but you and I will take our place in time, and find a better way to fly, far beyond the roughest seas. I hear all your whispered dreams, and the endless signs of the ones who loved; they live on in the stars above.

      Then I will come to you my love, with the passing of the days, and I will set you free each time…

      Foreword

      The Rouge were killing the doctors and the professionals, and the General could not take this. His will and valor transferred onto all of us. Come away to fly; we will set them free. I volunteered, for ground missions.

      There was an ebb and flow to the General’s prey and charges: There were large successes, like the surprise one I will next describe, although a setback to us at first, we losing several troops and an officer, when stumbling onto such a large Khmer contingent, these followed by failures or lulls in which intelligence was analyzed as far away as Hawaii, as it was from there that the overall Pacific was commanded.

      You sped my step, he said to her and to me from here to long ago, whilst everyone attempted to retard it, as even now the four winds are ever warning of the reports,

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