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Private First Class Reginald Edwards

This person is known as Malik and enlisted at the age of seventeen.

Specialist 5 Harold Bryant

This person invented things as a kid and is nicknamed Light Bulb.

Specialist 4 Richard J. Ford III

This person has bad knees, but medical records are lost and this person is sent to the infantry.

Specialist 4 Charles Strong

This person's parents were migrant workers, and he is drafted shortly before his twentieth birthday.

HM2 Luther C. Benton III

As an only child, this person could have stayed home, but accepts orders and goes to Vietnam to worksin a pharmacy dispensing supplies to village chiefs.

Specialist 5 Emmanuel J. Holloman

This person never finished high school, but is trained as an interpreter.

Specialist 4 Haywood T. Kirkland

At age twelve, this character has a vision of going to Vietnam and spending five years in prison.

First Lieutenant Archie BIggers

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