The report of the butchery sped through the 1st Marine Division unit by unit like a midsummer tornado ripping over the Midwest plains. Only this was Korea, not America, and it was the onset of winter 1952–1953. The Chinese once again had stirred up a hornet’s nest among the Gyrenes. Marines, along the line and off it were starting to loose their cool. When the word got back to the Flame Platoon in the tank park off the Changdan Road, Cpl Tom Clawson, F-21’s tank commander, his loader Pfc. Jerry Ravino, and F-33 Cpl. Elmer Betts were so angered that they went to their commanding officer. “We wanted to take three of our flame tanks out there,” Ravino said, “and get those guys back where they belonged.”