CHU LAI, Vietnam (IO) - Sometimes brotherly love backfires as Army S. Sgt. Cleve Watson of Sikeston, Mo., discovered,

"What are you doing here?" he roared at his younger brother Floyd, a Marine, when the two met in Da Nang.

"I volunteered to keep you from being sent," came the answer. Each had volunteered last summer to keep the other from having to serve again in Vietnam--but kept the secret from the other. So secret in fact that neither knew the other was in the war zone until a sister-in-law casually mentioned it in a letter to Cleve.

"It's pretty funny now." laughs Cleve, a signalman with Americal Div.'s 198th Inf. Brigade. "But I was furious at Floyd for awhile. He was kind of mad at me, too."

Each had served a previous tour in the war zone only a year ago.

Stars and Stripes 21Apr68