Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “War Stories: Ambushing a Viet Cong Ambush” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/ambushing-a-viet-cong-ambush/.
War Stories: Ambushing a Viet Cong Ambush
- Thread starter Mike H.
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Mr. Untactical
Master Class
Thank you for sharing; it's not often we receive a well-told glimpse into the details of what our men went through over there.
mikegc
Elite
"Nothing about war is glorious or cool."
"War, even a little bit of it, changes a man. A lot of war invariably changes a man a lot."
Very true statements by the author. The first engagement in which I participated was a shocker. It wasn't anything like Vic Morrow's "Combat" that I watched when I was a kid. It was sudden, loud and violent beyond my wildest imagination. Training kicks in and you do what you have to do. Afterwards, you look at what you've done and know it had to be done. Then, you spend the rest of your life trying to justify it.
I took those photos in 1969 and 1970 when I was with the First Infantry Division. I still have some bad dreams but not like before.
Mike
"War, even a little bit of it, changes a man. A lot of war invariably changes a man a lot."
Very true statements by the author. The first engagement in which I participated was a shocker. It wasn't anything like Vic Morrow's "Combat" that I watched when I was a kid. It was sudden, loud and violent beyond my wildest imagination. Training kicks in and you do what you have to do. Afterwards, you look at what you've done and know it had to be done. Then, you spend the rest of your life trying to justify it.
I took those photos in 1969 and 1970 when I was with the First Infantry Division. I still have some bad dreams but not like before.
Mike
mikegc
Elite
Mike,
I was stateside from 1973 on. The War dragged on until May 30th, 1975. I was prepared to go 'in country' when I enlisted.
We need to remember what happened to everyone. I'll be damned if the freaking hippies didn't treat us all as if we were violent killers. It was kill or be killed. Those ****oles had no idea of what you faced. They couldn't get their lives together without mommy wet-nursing them.
Feckless idiots.
I was stateside from 1973 on. The War dragged on until May 30th, 1975. I was prepared to go 'in country' when I enlisted.
We need to remember what happened to everyone. I'll be damned if the freaking hippies didn't treat us all as if we were violent killers. It was kill or be killed. Those ****oles had no idea of what you faced. They couldn't get their lives together without mommy wet-nursing them.
Feckless idiots.