The Economic Times

US veteran teamed up with former enemy colonel decades after fighting in Vietnam war. Their mission was to remove bombs

Chuck Searcy served as a US Army intelligence analyst in Vietnam during the war. Decades later, he returned to the country and began working to remove unexploded bombs left behind by the conflict. His mission brought him together with Bui Trong Hong, a former North Vietnamese army colonel and explosives expert who had once been on the opposite side of the Vietnam war.