Officers/sargent/ E4 or less

[39mto39g]

The war in Vietnam was a very different war depending on where you fell in the above list.
Our officers only had to be in a line unit for 6 months less if you knew someone (most knew someone).
Our Sargents were incharge of the platoon (generally) and as such had privlages. Except at bace camp.
E4 and below did the real work and the real fighting in Vietnam.
Some Officers were there just to get a permotion and could care less about any mission. Some were for the men only and were usually passed up for permotion, Some officers were just plane stupid and didn't belong in the infantry or in the Army.
Sargents were mostly guys that had been there for a little while, and were generally compident, Every once in awhile you ran into a Korean war or even a WW2 sargent that were hard core Army lifers and they were the worst. I only had experiance with one of these, Sargent White, What a ASSSSSSSSSSS hole.
Every time we would go back to base camp I had to go see this *&^%$#@!~ because we would need replacements and he took it upon himself to be the self apponited personnel filler person. He would assign people to us because he had an argument with someone and wanted to punish them. Now that makes me feel good about the guys being sent us.


Ron