Quảng Trị

The first is Jones Creek.

The second is the river branch running from Whiskey Nine to Quang Tri City.

It is known as the Quang Tri Cutoff.

During the dry summer months, the cutoff is not navigable.

Okay, Vietnam, October 1967.

It's Operation Medina, triple canopy jungle, southwest of Quang Tri, so thick that the daylight barely reaches the ground.

Marines from Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, are pushing through it.

And moving with them is 20-year-old kid raised in the San Fernando Valley named Corporal William T. Perkins Jr. Perkins isn't carrying a rifle as his primary.