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Yankee06
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Missed a big one
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8/31/2009 5:07:55 PM
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-Reference Vietnam, --I really hate to get into a Vietnam discussion, ...but I can't let some of teh above posts go without comment. I had two tours in Nam. My first started several months after Tet so I was not there, but worked with a lot of people who were. My second tour ended with me flying out on teh second to last plane that took out all the fighting troops on 23 mar 1973. So I was there fairly near the beginning of major operations and there for the end of it.
-From a military stand point Tet was a failure for the Viet Cong. Intell was available about the coming attacks. However, the intell missed as to teh intensity and the large scale of the attacks. Nevertheless, So many Viet Cong were killed during Tet and then hunted down and killed in the few months after TET, that the North had to start sending in North Vietnam troops to take the place of teh Cong and continue the war. I interrogated NVA from units that were captured because they lost their way since there were not enough VC left to guide them into the combat zones. The international media turned the fact that the VC were able to conduct such a large scale attack as a victory The fact that 90% of them died and had to be replaced by NVA troops from teh north should have been the story but was not.
-Tactics: by 1968, TET, Americans had been fighting in Nam for five years. By 1998, the tactics were not WWII tactics. Although there were a lot of tough battles, I believe the history that says we never lost a battle.. Duing my two tours, I never heard of a battle that we lost; at one period I had the assignment to go to firebases and verify bodycounts. There would be 400-500 NVA in, on, and around that wire, but they never took a firebase.
-Strategy: another thing entirely. That's where the war was lost. The strategy was waged from DC.
-Enough on Vietnam, yes, alot is open to interpretation, --but, let's just make sure we don't let the revisionists change the facts on us.
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