Yeah, when I left that war was won. We were down to maybe 20 Zulus a week and the Vietnamese economy was booming.
I left there feeling that something great had been accomplished.
I have hated and despised leftards ever since the war and in a certain sense never felt this was truly my country as long as they were among us.
“Yeah, when I left that war was won. We were down to maybe 20 Zulus a week and the Vietnamese economy was booming.
I left there feeling that something great had been accomplished.
I have hated and despised leftards ever since the war and in a certain sense never felt this was truly my country as long as they were among us”
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My father was stationed in Saigon and Cam Rahn Bay ‘67 - ‘68
He felt the same.
In 1970 a USAID Agriculture adviser drove his GMC Jimmy from Quang Tri near the DMZ on highway I to the Ca Mau Peninsula in the far south without once taking a shot. The action around Pleiku and Kontum in I Corps was minimal. The usually active Quang Tin and Quang Ngai were quiescent as most Viet Cong had been sacrificed on Tet 68, and the NVA has scooted into Laos. Seal bases along the Mekong, especially the large one at Binh Dinh were quiet. In sum, the war was on hold as the NVA waited for us to leave. And we did. And then, repeat then, the war was lost.
As a radio intercept op I listened to us winning the war in 68 then handing it back to Ha Noi in 69. We won it again overtly in 72 and the Congress handed the whole thing to the Communists thereafter.