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23 Mar 2026
Marines at Khe Sanh were resupplied by low-altitude parachute extraction during the Tet Offensive.

Then in 1968, as part of the Tet Offensive, way up north in South Vietnam, in the northern part of South Vietnam, near the demilitarized zone, we had a big Marine fire base called Khe San. And for, I forget if it was weeks, but I think months, it was just artillery shelled to hell and back by the North Vietnamese regulars. And we were like barely resupplying them. They did these amazing things. You can find videos. Couldn't land a C-130 on their airstrip. So they were resupplying it by something called a leap. It's low-altitude parachute extraction. The C-130 goes flying down the runway, like 10 feet off the deck, and they push a cargo out, like food or ammunition, and a little drogue parachute extracts it, and it just goes flying down the runway, you know, ass over tea kettle, and then the Marines are supposed to run out and get their food or their ammunition.