"Personally I think that may be why we got along with the grunts so well. More than once I swung at a dogface just because the grunt beside me in the bar was needing somebody to watch his back."
Well that and you had stuff we needed like bulldozers, plywood, electrical wire, etc. to make our lives a little more comfortable when we were at base camp. When we first arrived at Chu Lai it was a luxury to have 3 small pieces of 2x4 to put under the legs of our cots to keep them from sinking into the sand. without those pieces of wood you would find yourself sleeping on the sand by about midnight and you would be surprised how hard that sand could be.
C-Rats boxes did the same trick.