Chapter Thirty-Nine
Kostchenko sat at his desk thinking about his triumphant return to Moscow, and suddenly recalled a time during his assignment in Vietnam when his return home was not so auspicious. It was while he was a Captain in the early 1970s.
He had been sent as an advisor to the North Vietnamese Army, but occasionally went on combat patrols with some of the units he taught just for the excitement and opportunity to kill an occasional American. Even though he enjoyed fond memories of the assignment, it was also during this period of time when he knew his greatest fear, one that he only admitted to himself, and he still suffered from nightmares associated with the experience.
Someone had killed some Soviet Military Advisors wherever they happened to be located, whether that be in
