Wrong! I was there in ‘67-’68 at Phu Bai and points north around Dong Ha, Khe Sahn, some south around Danang, An Hoa, etc. With 1stMAW, MAG36, a gunship pilot in a Marine gunship squadron. And, I am proud of every minute of my service, unlike you obviously are. You seem to me to exemplify exactly what the “glorious and unbiased” media’s goal is, i.e., to disparage everything/anything that the U.S. armed forces do a la Abu Ghraib(fraternity pledge initiation hazing); Gitmo(paradise for a bunch of terrorists); Haditha(looking more and more like nothing there)until they have destroyed support for US efforts.
And, if you think the fact that ,35-40 years after an event of My Lai’s nature, I am not still crying about it equates to defense of whatever happened there, go ahead. I didn’t have anything to do with. It happened, and I’m not going to cry about it. I did my job and would do so again given the opportunity; but, the Marine Corps won’t re-up a 64 year old former helo gunship pilot for Iraq.
I see you’ve edited your “about” page. I read “era” before. No offense intended.
I was driving hueys out of Pleiku in 67 and in your neck of the woods in 69/70, and I’m sure I’m just as proud of my service as you are of yours.
As for the press, do you remember sipping a few at the Marble Mountain O Club while discussing bias in the media? I sure don’t. In fact, in my 21+ years in the Army I can’t remember any discussion anywhere at any time about the press. As a soldier I never figured it was my job. And it wasn’t.
I’m not crying about My Lai 4, but I wore the uniform at that time and I believe it reflected on my Army.
“the Marine Corps won’t re-up a 64 year old former helo gunship pilot for Iraq.”
I can’t imagine the Army would take any leadpennies either.