Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong

I liked this chapter alot, it said a lot about human nature, when Rat talked about how young and naieve they were when they had first arrived and Mary Ann was the same way, naieve. I didn't find the story sexist at all, I found it actually the opposite, here was a young girl, barely seventeen in Vietnam getting her hands dirty, learning, adapting, becoming an equal despite her gender. I thought it was great how at the begining of the chapter the men were infatuated with her on a physical level and she managed to gain their respect as well as the respect of the 'greenies'. Of course the story seems completely unbelieveable, and maybe thats why I liked it, it relishes in the most unlikely and unbelieveable possibility and runs with it. It dosent matter though, you can never believe a true war story