US Army Command Sergeant Major Patrick J. Tadina..
US Army Command Sergeant Major Patrick J. Tadina.. Patrick J. Tadina was the longest continuously serving Ranger in Vietnam. He is one of the godfathers of the Army Rangers and is a legend within the Special Forces community to this day. “We were beside the trail, right on the border there. We had the art of hiding down so good. I’d already counted 25 of them passing. Hardcore North Vietnamese I could barely move, except my eyes. Here came another column, brush all over them, really sneaking along — scary stuff. We had to stay so still. They were only three or four meters away now, long files of them. Just the slightest movement, and they would detect us.” In a split second, a 5’5”’ American warrior and his five brothers-in-arms burst out of the brush like a pack of vicious wolves — but wolves armed with explosives. After the smoke cleared, these demons of the jungle melted back into the leaves, leaving a once-disciplined fighting force turned upside down and inside out, scattered...