When Gerald Plount was interacting with the villagers he described them as being gentle and welcoming for the most part. They would offer him rice wine and some meat he could only assume was dog. He never touched the meat but rice wine was common thing he shared with the Vietnamese. Their villages we small along with their housing but the Vietnamese worked together to survive. Because many American soldiers were always near they went through a lot of beer and fast i might add. villagers would sometimes use these to cans and would flatten them out and build roofs for their houses. 

Gerald Plount says that because he was in an authority position he was not around to get close to anyone. Of course he could not be friends with the Vietnamese because they were considered the enemy but the people in his platoon too that he worked side by side with each day. Lack of human connection can cause many issues within ourselves. Studies show that those who lack that connection are more venerable to anxiety, depression, strokes, and heart diseases.

​Search and Destroy was a military tactic used commonly in the Vietnam war. Troops and armed forces are sent to these hostile  and suspected hostile locations. The objective of Search and destroy missions were to infiltrate, kill, retreat, repeat.