From Vietnam to Denmark (Australia) By BMW 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Nui Dat, South Vietnam Apr 70 Greg hung up the phone from the Command Post, looked at me and said 'Jock's just gone up in a mine!' I'd been 'in-country' about 2 weeks and already discovered that in this dirty little war clerks got hurt, even when on an Armoured Personnel Carrier. Sgt 'Jock' Cooper, who I'd known for only a short while, was my Chief Clerk, and would be heading back to Australia minus a few bits. Wow. Greg (Cpl Greg Smith) and I (Trooper Joe Blake) managed to get a chopper down to Vung Tau to visit Jock in Hospital before he was Medevaced to Australia. Sydney 1987 I next saw Jock in the glorious and sometimes tearful welter of emotion that was the 'Welcome Home March' in Sydney in 1987 for the Vietnam Diggers, sitting in a wheelchair. I raced over and shook his hand, exchanged a few words and wen...