Some of these stories, I've heard. I had an uncle in Hue City and he participated in the relief of Khe Sanh (he was a pig gunner.) But this documentary really fills the gaps.

(Ironically, later, I would make the acquaintance of a Korean war-era mustang that was part of the Siege of Khe Sanh as well; he filled in some blanks on that, describing the supply situation. One of my father's bosses, a former USAF C-123 pilot, talked about what he saw bringing the supplies in. But war stories tend to be somewhat fragmented; unless you have a bunch of guys all there together, you get a story with lots of holes in it. That's why military historians bring groups of combat troops together to interview them together.)

But a lot of the stories are the scary shit that happens by sheer accident; that's how the Forrestal burned and that's how this one guy that was in the 101st related to me his worst nightmare -- not shit he saw in combat, but when mishandled rockets blew a man up on base when they were rearming choppers.

Source: I did a bit of work for a professor while I was in college, interviewing veterans. I got a lot of pretty rugged first-hand stories that way. A lot of these guys wanted to talk to people that weren't going to judge, and they found it easier to talk to a younger guy than someone their own generation, because their own generation, they often felt, judged them harshly.