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It's form the Viet Nam war, Marines and Soldiers were often set out into the jungle to set up temporary camps or landing zones, and they were set up a perimeter of concertina wire as a fence....so the fence/wire became a big thing to the grunts in the bush and phrases like "They're coming over the wire" "They're just outside the wire!" were formed.
 

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I was too young for Nam but I've known and met several guys that were, including a Huey gunship pilot and Marine Colonel from Force Recon. that had amazing stories worthy of movie scenes.
 

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The Marine Colonel was deep inside North Vietnam with about 4 Montangards doing recon. they were suddenly face toffee with NVA Soldiers, who asked why my Marine guy was so big, the 'story' they had was that he was a retard, to which the Laughed and offered him a cigarette...