Once again, I absolutley agree with you! I have one message for them and it's below.
Posted on 03/31/2004 9:38:58 PM PST by SAMWolf
Once again, I absolutley agree with you! I have one message for them and it's below.
LOL! Good night Sam.. : )
I had the same thought after posting. ruh roh
Vietnam was America’s longest war. One of the most bitterly fought battles during that war was the siege of Khe Sanh. Toward the end of 1966, numerous large scale North Vietnamese units began consolidating around the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North from South Vietnam. The Commander of US forces in Vietnam, General William C. Westmoreland, ordered Marine units northward – into a string of fire support bases just south of the DMZ. One of those bases was Khe Sanh.
All during 1967, Marines continued moving in to reinforce the tiny outpost. By January 1968 more than 6,000 Allied troops were on hand – dug in, ready to fight. But US intelligence reports indicated that some 15-20,000 North Vietnamese Army (NVA) regulars had them surrounded, virtually cut off from the outside world. The siege had begun.
At approximately 0530 hours on 21 January 1968, Communist gunners began hitting the camp with hundreds of rounds of rockets, mortars and artillery fire. One of the incoming rounds scored a direct hit on the camp’s main ordnance dump – destroying nearly 1,500 tons of ordnance in a few minutes. The Marines immediately requested an emergency resupply of ammunition. But the only way in was by airdrop.
Members of the 109th Quartermaster Company (Aerial Delivery) began around-the-clock operations. Quartermaster riggers loaded C-123s and delivered more than 130 tons of supplies during the next 36 hours – even flying and unloading at night by the light of Marine artillery flares. The operation became even more perilous as NVA antiaircraft guns opened fire. Between January and April 1968, when the siege was finally broken, Quartermaster riggers delivered nearly 12,500 tons of supplies, without which the Marines could never have survived.
There were many Quartermaster heroes during that tense period, as the country looked on. One such hero was Specialist Fourth Class Charles Charles L. Baney, a 20-year-old parachute rigger, whose C-130 crashed, killing him and all others on board during a low altitude supply drop at Khe Sahn. Spec 4 Baney’s overwhelming sense of DUTY, and eagerness to help those trapped on the ground below, places him in the finest tradition of Quartermaster soldiers supporting soldiers.
The North Vietnamese thought it was Dien Bien Phu all over again. They thought wrong.
By Walter J. Boyne
Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap and other North Vietnamese military leaders dreamed of doing to America at Khe Sanh what they had done years before to France at Dien Bien Phu. There, in 1954, Communist troops had cut off a sizeable French force, put it under siege, forced it to surrender, and shattered France's colonial power. Hanoi hoped to do the same at Khe Sanh.
US leaders, particularly Gen. William C. Westmoreland, anticipated Giap's desire to re-enact his triumph and decided that any such attempt by the North Vietnamese could be turned into a massive US victory by the use of overwhelming airpower.
When the French Communist candidate took the podium of the Democrat National Convention in Boston in 2004, he carried with him the Peoples Revolutionary Hero Medal pinned to his underwear--exactly where Vo Nguyen Giap had placed it in Paris in 1971.
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The Boeing Sea Knight & Chinook
The sponsons and the nose-up attitude of the CH-46 on the ground gave the appearance of a frog ready to hop, and so the Marines nicknamed the type the "Frog". Although there was initial suspicion of the type as Marines were accustomed to Sikorsky helicopters, the Frog quickly proved itself in Vietnam after its introduction into the theater in March 1966, though the CH-46 fleet was grounded for a time in 1967 when a few of them were lost in accidents. The Frogs acquitted themselves well, particularly during the siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968.
174th Assault Helicopter Company
LOL. I thought my birthday was the most important event! ;-)
It isn't us that they should be interested in. We're just exhibiting our frustrations. I'm not ashamed or skeered to say I want them dead! Let them put me on their list, I'll shout it from the rooftops. I want them not just dead but suffering first. So there. </ rant>
You guys just know how to talk technical about how, I just know what I want the end result to be. ;-)
After millenia of conflict..these powers put into action what really worked.
then they ruled..for hundreds of years type thing.
Iraq is devolved into a police action..here we go again.
Whats gonna happen when the Shia and their green headband army get into he game?
Iraq may have lost Saddams army..but the Islamic one is getting its shit together.
Saddams army cut and ran..this Islamic army will not quit the field..unless it is trounced.
My forward looking observation...
In ten years....Southern Iraq will be knit to Iran..and the sytem will be pinging at its compass points..like Lebanon and Syria.
The Saudi's will not be able to money manage Islam's comming tantraum.
Allready Mahdi speak is breaking out....they do not need Al Jiwahiri and Ossama for this.
Oil will become a weapon..the Islamic army will take it away from the west in spite..and force the fight in Allahs name.
Europe will stand stunned in the headlights like allways..and chaos will shake thier Cogniac world.
Islam knows the oil is going to China..and the money is flowing to the Infidel.
all the more reason to take the oil away from us..and turn China to their side.
alot of trouble down the road....because we are letting Islam dictate the terms.
We should be overthrowing the Ayatollah Khamenei and his Guardian Counsel.
There can be no secular state in Iraq with Iran intact.
And there can never be peace for Israel with Syria in place.
Apparently Biden crowed to Matthews that the U.S. is too weakened to act against Iran and Syria.
A substantial number of our elected blowhards are wholly-owned subsidiaries of CAIR.
And China and North Korea are financing and arming terrorists.
Can this administration believe the same "new tone" that hasn't worked in Washington will work in Iraq?
Anything less than One Mob-One Moab is only going to make the opposition giggle.
Thanks for the Airpower at Khe Sanh links.
Love the "Winning Hearts and Minds"
IMHO, it's long past time to quit trying to win hearts and minds and start putting one of these 
into their bodies.
Now let's hunt these bastards down where ever they hide and exterminate them. No negotiations, No reasoning, No prisoners. Just dead.
"200 years from now, I want their children's children's children's children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead because their legends tell of fire from the sky.
I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth, shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction.
I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with "If you don't behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you", and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obesience.
I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea .. the powerful 'Mericans .. destroyed their forefathers' wickedness."
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