U.S. Troops Faced
An Unseen Enemy!

FT. BRAGG (UPI) --- "You go by a house with them louvered shutters all locked up and everything," the wounded trooper explained. "But when you go by someone pokes a gun out and takes a shot at you. I didn't even see the one that got me. But he won't be shooting any other Americans cause one of my buddies got him."
   Sgt. John A. Bailey of the 17th Cavalry, 82nd Airborne Division, lay in a bed at Womack Army Hospital here and described street fighting in Santo Domingo.
   "None of us getting hit down there are getting hit from the front," he said. ''I was hit from the back, and all of us are."
   Bailey's unit was the first from Ft. Bragg committed to action in Santo Domingo and he was the first man wounded.
   Sgt. Wayne S. Barefoot of the 508th Infantry explained about street fighting.

"You have about 30 seconds to put into use everything you have ever learned. I felt kind of woozy to begin with but once you are thrown in there you are too busy to think and it all comes natural."
   Marine Pvt. David Southerland, one of about 7,500 Marines from the 2nd Marine Division in the Dominican Republic, said.
   "We were trained to fight an enemy you can see. All the time I was there I didn't see anyone but our own guys."
   "About 9:30 or 10 Friday morning they told us to move into the city (Santo Domingo). I remember we passed by some pretty .nice homes and saw civilians standing along the road.
   Most of us then didn't think we'd meet up with a bunch of the rebels.
   "We kept moving into the city and came in front of the U.S. Embassy," he said. "All h - - - broke loose."

[Greensboro Daily News, Greensboro, NC, Wed, May 05, 1965, Page:1]