As most  infantry  soldiers  know  the  REMFs  would ask  us to do some  strange things. The article below is about what the REMFs ask us to do on Christmas Eve 1968. We had a ground attack on our base camp December 13 and found just one enemy body the next morning. The REMFs hated to think the body count was that low. So when these graves were found they wanted them dug up to see how they died. When we dug the graves we found that some were NVA. The REMFs wanted us to take the uniforms off of  the corpses  to prove  to the  rear echelon that   they were NVA. The bodies were wrapped in straw mats. When they were taken out of the graves we had to unwrap them to see how they died. If you have ever seen people killed from war wounds it is not a pretty site. Sometimes things are missing. We had been supplied with gas masks to help with the smell. But I still find it hard to believe the REMFs ask us to do this. I got sick from the smell and refused to dig up any more bodies.

What a Christmas Eve!!