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Originally Posted by 39mto39g
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Think about what is being written here. Not to say it's false but I usually don't take any writing as fact, (Columbus discovered America) . For instance.
Just a couple examples.
#4 Myth, Average age of Vietnam vet. 23? There were two guys in my unit that were older than 20, the rest were 18 and 19. You made E2 after you got out of AIT, I didn't know any E1s in VN. And what about all the rest of the MOS's besides 11B. And Marines.
#7 Myth. ". The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year"
That’s just BS. Unless you have a very, very loose definition of Combat. I heard a mortar go off so therefore I was in combat?
No, These things are interesting and may even be true, But at least you can say that some are suspect?
Ron
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i have to agree with ron---some of this is just wrong.
In my infantry unit the average age was 21----but when you think that this included a 37 year old platoon sgt and some older squad leaders to raise the average, the TYPICAL grunt in that platoon was 19.
Over 1200 pilots were killed during the Vietnam War---some of these were WWII vets---that had to raise the average some.
And I'd certsinly have to dispute this---a lot: "....Isolated atrocities committed by American Soldiers produced torrents of
>outrage from anti-war critics and the news media while Communist atrocities were so common that they received hardly any media mention at all. The United States sought to minimize and prevent attacks on civilians while North Vietnam made attacks on civilians a centerpiece of its strategy...."
it is generally agreed that the vast majority of civilians killed were by the US bombing of Both North and South. According to the Vietnamese government, about 2.25 million vietnamese were killed in the Vietnam War. About one million North Vietnamese soldeiers were killed, about 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers were killed. And ABout a million civiliians were killed. Of these, the vast majority were killed by US bombing. The Communists never killed on this level and you won't find Any evidence to prove they did.
most of these facts have been around a long time and no one realy disputes them. And what do they mean now, anyway?
Good to see you back, Gimp
Stay good
james