Timestamp: 00:02:28 – 00:03:33
Topic: Responding to a village structural fire and taking enemy small arms fire without weapons
John Trenz: “…There were times that we had a fire in town, and it was approximately 2:00 in the morning… The security police are going to meet you at the gate and you’re going to go in and help put the fire out, which is what we did.
We got there and we were there in approximately 15 or 20 minutes when we started getting shot at. And I looked at my driver, his name was Barney Alvarez… I says, ‘Where’d you put the rifles at?’ He looked at me and says, ‘I thought you got them.’ So neither one of us brought our rifles with us. And I go, ‘Oh boy.’
So I just said to him, I said, ‘Drop the hoses’—which I think uncoupled the hoses—we just left them there. Then when the police were able to get us out of there, we left… The tanker had holes in it at that point.”