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Vietnam's General Vo Nguyen Giap dies

I spent the fist six months of 1970 based out of Hoi An which was the TAR of the ROK Marines Blue Dragon's Brigade. Care to explain why the South Koreans also used the term gook when referring to the NVA and VC ?

not sure of the unit, but I met some ROK Marines in Chu Lai.. what you say is true.. they called Charles gook quite a bit.... hell, everybody did.

around 1978 or 79, we got a new SSgt in fresh from the drill field.. named Danny Nguyen.
we were swappin' Nam fishin' stories over a beer and he says "careful... if you call me a gook, i'll **** you up".. so I say " whatever you say, slope"...the lil' bastard tackled me in the E-club and started wailing on me :lol:
he's still a good friend to this day.. helluva guy...stellar marine.
 
well, when we were up by Boom boom Rock, we only had to deal with them sporadically.. at Chu lai, they were up our ass non-stop.

we had a Marine K-9 detachment on Monkey Mountain that went on a day patrol with an ARVN platoon...I was in country for about 3 or 4 months, still a boot, still green as ****
we glassed them going out and watched as the entire Platoon stopped, stripped to their skivvies and sunbathed.
the Marines headed back and it wasn't 10 seconds after they came in the wire that mortars started fallin'..Marvin didn't even budge, they didn't even flinch.. they just kept catching rays.
that's the exact moment I knew there was something fishy goin' on..

when the Gunny tells me i'm heading out with them... I told him ok, but none of them would be coming back with me.
Gunny was squared away, he knew the deal... he let me slide.

I'm familiar with Monkey Mountain only because I could see it from Marble Mountain, I could see all of the antennas and radars and I was told there was a Marine Hawk SAM battery on the mountain.

Meet King Rat of Monkey Mountain:
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I'm familiar with Monkey Mountain only because I could see it from Marble Mountain, I could see all of the antennas and radars and I was told there was a Marine Hawk SAM battery on the mountain.

Meet King Rat of Monkey Mountain:
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I was a HAWKer back then.. 5923... you were given the straight scoop.
I showed up in country 1 year after this pic was taken..Jan '70
 
not sure of the unit, but I met some ROK Marines in Chu Lai.. what you say is true.. they called Charles gook quite a bit.... hell, everybody did.

around 1978 or 79, we got a new SSgt in fresh from the drill field.. named Danny Nguyen.
we were swappin' Nam fishin' stories over a beer and he says "careful... if you call me a gook, i'll **** you up".. so I say " whatever you say, slope"...the lil' bastard tackled me in the E-club and started wailing on me :lol:
he's still a good friend to this day.. helluva guy...stellar marine.

Had to be the same ROK Marines I was attached to in Hoai An, 2nd ROK Marine Brigade (Blue Dragons) Bad mother ####### and they knew it.

I use to watch the some of the aircraft that had heavy bomb loads take off from Chu Lia using the rocket assist JATO packs. Pretty cool.

When were you in-country ?
 
Had to be the same ROK Marines I was attached to in Hoai An, 2nd ROK Marine Brigade (Blue Dragons) Bad mother ####### and they knew it.

I use to watch the some of the aircraft that had heavy bomb loads take off from Chu Lia using the rocket assist JATO packs. Pretty cool.

When were you in-country ?
7Jan70- 17July71
 
He ordered the systematic murders of South Vietnamese teachers, community leaders and intellectuals. He allowed American POW's to be tortured and murdered, if not directly ordered it to be done. He was a mudering, Communist piece of ****, not a patriotic hero.

Precisely. Being a smart and tough murderous bastard does not make one good.
 
The Vietnamese people have shown unbelievable resilience. We have many American soldiers who spent a tour in that hell hole and are still dealing with it. I can't imagine how it must be for the people who lived their lives there. But you don't see resentment towards us. You don't see Vietamese terrorists trying to kill as many Americans as they can. I don't hear about Vietamese people having PTSD but I don't see how they can't.

Why would one expect to hear about PTSD from an enemy country? Why would the communists have even studied or paid attention to it?
 
Why would one expect to hear about PTSD from an enemy country? Why would the communists have even studied or paid attention to it?

What did the Vietnamese ever do to you?
 
Go try that trick on someone who'll fall for it.

Why is it a trick? Unless you served in the conflict probably nothing.

But if you can't answer then nevermind.
 
Why is it a trick? Unless you served in the conflict probably nothing.

But if you can't answer then nevermind.

Buddy, you obviously didn't understand what I wrote with a question like that. So why don't you go study it for a while. Don't assume I can't answer, when you ask an irrelevant question.
 
You think any of that compares to what that Piece of **** did? What he did to women.....children. You think we were into direct torture to make a statement? We didn't run around lopping off little kids arms all because they got inoculated by the US or others. We didn't stake out and torture and burn village chiefs for not giving up their people to go and fight for that jerk. Then leave them there burning as an example of how civilized they were.

When one unleashes the Dogs of War.....never cry when coming across that Hell hound!

Then why did we forsake the moral high ground and commit the atrocity?
 
You Leftists need to SERIOUSLY become more informed.



My Lai was the act of one rogue platoon. Dak Son and Hue were the result of official Communist policy.

What makes the United States different than the communist regimes is that we are supposed to make our "rouge platoons" be held accountable for their actions.
 
Does this mean my wife needs to look for another place to get her nails done?
 
Then why did we forsake the moral high ground and commit the atrocity?

How did we forsake the high ground? Major difference when ones leaders aren't advocating to commit atrocities wouldn't you say?

Any of our people will be brought for our own laws. Can't say the same for them.
 
What makes the United States different than the communist regimes is that we are supposed to make our "rouge platoons" be held accountable for their actions.

And, they were...
 
WE didn't.

The only one's who did not forsake the moral high ground was Hugh Thompson jr., the helicopter pilot who landed his helicopter in between a group of soldiers and the Veitnamese. He helped stop the massacre but I bet you think diffrently since he had to level his helicopters machine guns on the solders in order to intimidate them and keep them from commiting murder.
 
The only one's who did not forsake the moral high ground was Hugh Thompson jr., the helicopter pilot who landed his helicopter in between a group of soldiers and the Veitnamese. He helped stop the massacre but I bet you think diffrently since he had to level his helicopters machine guns on the solders in order to intimidate them and keep them from commiting murder.

Summary executions are not only a crime in the military, they're unconstitutional. Had he opened fire, he would have been guilty of murder.

You don't get to break the law, just because someone else is breaking the law.

The difference you can't seem to realize, is that what took place at My Lai and My Khe wasn't a matter of official policy. The Communists, on the other hand had an official policy in place that called for the murder of innocent civilians. To date, no one in the North has ever been tried, much less convicted of the war crimes that were commited during the war.

Thats not even the ****ed up part. The ****ed up part, is that there are Americans that acrually defend those pieces of ****.
 
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