Title: Early Days of US Involvement in VN Source:
National Archives and Records Administration URL Source:[None] Published:Apr 20, 2011 Author:Unknown Post Date:2011-04-20 11:12:45 by sneakypete Ping List:*Military or Vets Affairs*Subscribe to *Military or Vets Affairs* Keywords:None Views:53471 Comments:64
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This is a documentary type thing from the early days in VN about Special Forces involvement in recruiting and training the locals. Notice the guys are still wearing regular fatigues,white name tags,and gold stripes,and they are all still carrying WW-2 weapons. Not real sure of the year,but I was issued a full-auto AR-15 and jungle fatigues when I got to Bragg in 64. Which means this was probably a team that was TDY from the 5th while it was still at Bragg. IIRC,the 5th deployed to VN in 65,and by then they should have all been wearing jungle fatigues.
LOL! No! This was probably done in 61-63,and I didn't even join the army until early 64. Some of the guys in that clip are WW-2 and Korean War vets.
I bet you were really pissed when you realized that instead of killing commies for mommy, you were making the world safe for tire manufacturing and oil exploration.
Absolutely! NEVER fight a war you don't intend on winning. Other than WW-1 and WW-2,every war we have ever fought has been fought to try and get the enemy to the point they want to quit fighting,not to defeat them and occupy their country.
The classic example of this is the War of Northern Aggression. The South never intended to defeat and occupy the north,and they could have probably taken DC any time they wanted the first year of the war. They didn't because they were convinced the north would look at the causalities they were suffering and just decide to quit fighting.
We can all see how well THAT strategy worked out.
My view on this is simple. NEVER fight a war you don't intend on winning. If it ain't serious enough you want to occupy the enemy's land and hang the leaders,it ain't serious enough to go to war over. Period.
