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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 16:11:51 GMT -5
it was night the dry grass was 2 foot high and had caught fire from the tracers two wounded men lay helpless and would be burned alive unless someone helped them and be dam quick about it whoever did go to help had to dodge the tracers and the fire , this type of situation was taking place all over Vietnam , you couldn't let your comrades down , the American soldier would do what it ever took and did , that's why Benghazi is unacceptable .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 18:25:00 GMT -5
Muleskinner I was told by a Vietnam Vet during the early 1990s that he witnessed a fellow soldier being shot by his own people, the victim had been wounded and left lying on the ground for not long as the fight continued, when the section returned to pick him up he was gone. Next morning they searched and found him tied up and he warned them that he was wired with explosives and asked to be shot. These events never make the news do they. But for the soldiers involved a mental image for life.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 18:51:38 GMT -5
Its plausible , the enemy would often wound a soldier because they knew that someone would make the attempt to recover the wounded comrade that way the enemy could get two or more at the same time . I saw 4 men shot one at a time trying to help a comrade this was at Cu Chi where there were tunnels all over the place the enemy would pop up here then there very frustrating .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2013 16:12:59 GMT -5
In my 9 months ( all the time I had left to discharge ) in Vietnam I saw the land as beautiful from a distance but up close it was like a pock marked old whore and like the whore it had a bad disease called corruption from the top on down , one night myself and some comrades discussed the situation over a hot beer we came to the conclusion you want to win the war start at Saigon .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2013 18:42:40 GMT -5
What we rightly view as corruption is considered to be the way of life in many third world countries to some degree or completely. It is centuries old behaviour. Developed world people know that there is corruption around them but choose not to believe that it is all around them but not conducted as openly as third world. So it must be human behaviour.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2013 18:39:22 GMT -5
One of the perks being a Huey crew member was a cot every night a cot in a wooden shack another perk was we had our own zoo , Rats as big as cats and of course when you had rats YOU had Snakes mostly constrictors with a few venomous thrown in for good measure , until you got use to it the snakes and rat wrestling at night would keep you awake but eventually the need to sleep won over .
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Post by Swampy on Jun 23, 2013 19:14:11 GMT -5
You weren't afraid of the snakes biting you?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2013 19:42:32 GMT -5
Vietnam was a land of fear and death and you dealt with issues the best you could , one learned that the snakes were interested in the rats so if you didn't step on one of the damn things or corner it you'd most likely be OK , the rats were the bigger problem and rat bites were common .
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Post by Swampy on Jun 23, 2013 19:45:50 GMT -5
Sleep near the snakes, then, and the rats won't bother you.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2013 20:58:54 GMT -5
That's a thought !!!
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Jun 24, 2013 10:26:40 GMT -5
I almost hate to say this, Mule, but if there were that many rats around, that meant there was food to attract them. It then follows that hygiene was not as good in your camp as it should have been. Keep thing clean and there is little to attract rats. And had no one ever heard of rat poison?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2013 10:53:35 GMT -5
JERRY , the medics or someone would place rat boxes around the area didn't have a lot of effect , our day started at 4am and finished when it finished there was no one around to tidy the place up ,, sanitation was par with the rest of Cu chi out door latrines , cold showers , Rats were a pain in the ass , speaking of ass one looked in the hole before sitting down .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2013 11:21:56 GMT -5
Perimeter Guard , if your ship was going to be down for repairs for a couple days you got bunker duty our company was assigned one perimeter bunker and a team which consisted of three men well equipped with a M-60 a M-79 ( 40MM Grenade launcher ) 2 claymore mines a Starlite ( night vision ) 3 AR 15Th's assorted parachute flares 2 radios and anything else you felt like carrying , NO ONE went inside the bunker talk about a zoo Spiders snakes and who knows what if you felt a need to go inside a bunker you would throw a concussion grenade in first , snakes are deaf but the vibes from a grenade would usually would make them move out , most of the time everyone would stay on top of the bunker .
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Jun 24, 2013 11:24:18 GMT -5
Mule - with the right leadership, there is always someone available to keep a camp tidy enough to keep the vermin away. A little diesel and a match once a day will keep the rats out of the shitters....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2013 11:44:47 GMT -5
A friend once asked me what was the hardest part that I experienced in Vietnam my answer was and Don might agree that going out every morning hunting down an enemy that you were not quite sure where they were but they knew where you were and they were waiting for you .
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