Vietnam Fiction

[Philip Speake]

“Look, we know zulu delta is full of rpgs and we know there all being ferried across the river here, the only idea I can up with, is that we can move up to here and get eye’s on enemy transport. What I’m interested in, is this, cause I’ve never seen one of these things before and I’ve checked, there not chinese or russian so the only thing I can think of, is that their making weapons designed by north vietnamese now and its fucking ridiculous. It’s not a nuke as such but its fucking huge, if you take a look at the shape of the warhead here, there’s no way you could fit a nuke in there. So, the only thing I can think it is, is some sort of anti-ship missile but the russians and the chinese could easily give them something that could do that and they haven’t made anything new like that since the sixties which means it either made by some mad north vietnamese and I don’t really want to say it but I think it could even be U.S, because I’ve been calling people and all they can talk to me about is satins shit and I don’t like the idea of all this damn de-foliant going around because we claim it ours but I’ve seen the damn stuff go off with no planes and I don’t know anyone who’s got the balls to go out there and release it them fucking-selves, everyone tells me it’s the airforce, but it fucking isn’t because they will literally tell me anything including what time their going for a shit, which is all they ever want to talk about these days”
“Look major”
“I’m sorry if I’m laughing, but this is fucking insane, all anyone wants to talk about is satin’s shit and I don’t like the idea people keep coming out to look at this damn gas, if we’re ever going to find out what going on around here, we need to find out what the fuck there up to, so I want to take this thing apart, piece by piece and find out who the fuck made this damn thing, and if it is U.S, cause we make new things all the time and I don’t like the idea they turn up all over the place, like american plane parts I’ve never seen before, so I’m just going to fucking say it, we need to fuck off as far as we can, and I’m sorry men, but this means goodbye to home”
“Okay major but”
“Look I know you don’t like any of this colonel, but the thing is, as my commanding officer you haven’t done a fucking thing about any of this and as a colonel, I would have thought you would have taken the initiative to look into this as well”
“I don’t want to know major, I keep getting phone calls talking about hell of earth and satins fucking shit as well you know and I need to stop everyone from going mad instead of trying to work out why everyone’s talking about little girls, and I’ve already told you major what I know and I am going to tell the men what I saw”
“Is that a good idea colonel”
“Yes it is major, I spoke it colonel fraught and he did nothing but talk about shit on earth and his daughter, who he seemed to prefer the idea of without her fucking head, he then produced a picture of a v.c, holding a dead fucking baby and then showed me that back of it, which read “isn’t it lovely”. To be honest major I don’t see the point in looking at that damn thing, because if it is u.s, I don’t want to know and I still don’t know why anyone is still here because everyone knows asia has gone fucking mad and if we want to stay sane we need to find a way to convince everyone to get out of here”
“Look, if we go out there and tell everyone there’s no fucking point anymore, cause we cant work out where the fuck their comin from, we can turn around and say we can dig up a load of old contacts, which theirs literally none of, so we can just come up with a load of names of dead civilians, no-one’s going to check because their all been taken away by these sick fucks. So if it isn’t ours we just come back and sit around playing with our dicks and I’ll even steal a load of porn because they have tons of it.”
“Okay major, but if we do come back and sit around “playing with our dicks” as you explained it, how long is it going to take before all of us go fucking mad, because all I know is that the only thing we can do is run as far as way as we can, from everyone who is a fucking maniac but I don’t want to be a traitor and neither do the men”
“Okay, but if they do break coms with us again like they have done before, we need to go somewhere china cant potentially start a war and the only place I can find is fucking japan, because even the chinese don’t have the balls to do that”


“FUCK YOU, ENEMY CONTACT”
“MOVE, MOVE, MOVE”
“EXFIL THIS WAY, FOLLOW ME”
“I GOT CHARLIE EVERYWHERE SIR”
“RUN, RUN, RUN, THIS WAY FOLLOW ME”
“FUCK YOU, ENEMY CONTACT”
‘I’M GONNA FUCK YOU PAL”
“EXFIL THIS WAY, I SEE IT NOW”
“MORE ENEMY”
“UP THERE NOW, HOLD THAT PLACE”
“THIS IS ALPHA KEY, EXFIL CHANGED FROM, FIVE, ONE, SIX, POINT, ONE, TWO, SLASH, SIX, FOUR, ONE POINT, THREE, THREE, SEVEN, TO, EXFIL, FIVE, ONE, SIX, POINT, ONE, TWO, SLASH, SEVEN, FOUR, POINT, SIX, NINE”
“CHARLIE’S BACK, HERE WE GO”
“HOTEL THIS ALPHA KEY, CAN YOU HEAR ME”
“FUCK”
“THIS IS ALPHA KEY, EXFIL CHANGED FROM, FIVE, ONE, SIX, POINT, ONE, TWO, SLASH, SIX, FOUR, ONE POINT, THREE, THREE, SEVEN, TO, EXFIL, FIVE, ONE, SIX, POINT, ONE, TWO, SLASH, SEVEN, FOUR, POINT, SIX, NINE”
“FUCK ME, CHARLIE’S EVERYWHRE”
“COME IN HOTEL, THIS IS ALPHA KEY”
“WAKE THE FUCK UP YOU ASSHOLE”
“FUCK”
“LOOK, I GOT NO COMS”
“FUCK, WHERE’S LOCK”
“ALPHA LOCK, WE ARE AT EXFIL, FIVE, ONE, SIX, POINT, ONE, TWO, SLASH, SEVEN, FOUR, POINT, SIX, NINE, WHERE ARE YOU”
“WHAT THE FUCK YOU DOIN CHARLIE”
“ALPHA KEY, WE ARE AT EXFIL, FIVE, ONE, SIX, POINT, ONE, TWO, SLASH, NINE, EIGHT, POINT, THREE, SEVEN, ZERO”
“I GOT ALPHA LOCK”
“CHARLIE GONE MAD SIR”
“ALPHA LOCK, HAVE YOU GOT COMS”
“NEGATIVE, I HAVE NO COMS”
“AMMO, WHO’S GOT AMMO”
“SHIT, I HAVN’T CHECKED”
“I’M LOW SIR”
“I GOT AMMO”
“YEH I GOT AMMO”
“HOW’S YOUR AMMO ALPHA LOCK”
“AMMO’S LOW ALPHA KEY”
“quiet, what’s he doing”
“what the fuck you doin Charlie”
“Sir their fuckin killin themselves out there”
“Alpha lock, you got contact”
“Negative alpha key, enemy gone, I say again, enemy gone”
“Look we got no coms alpha lock, everyone’s enemy”
“Yes sir alpha key”
“Alpha lock, we come to you, I say again, we come to you”


Philip Speake