did you feel threatened? >> dragging out credentials is not something i feel comfortable doing but this demands it. it did three tours of duty in vietnam in the 1960s a correspondent for nbc news. troops in combat are what i covered. troopsly always admire and support because of this experience. i also covered israeli troops in combat during the yom kippur roar in 1973. the british army in the northern ireland trouble in the 1970s. the india-pakistan war in 1971. the grenada invasion in 1983, et cetera, et cetera. in those days you see networks have the money and commitment to send correspondents to wherever a shot was fired. covering combat was very much on the foreign correspondent daily menu. there is an enormous difference between covering war as a correspondent, and fighting it as a soldier.