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RE: They were all afraid of doing the right thing

I think it was each group trying to rectify JFK's huge mistake. Then trying to manage the situation without ever putting your feet on the ground.

In country we were led by about 15% of the quality needed. Rest were ticket punchers only seeking to increase their status. I was in country for three months before I discovered people were actually getting killed(our side). In Tet (68) we were kept in the dark, and other than Khe Sahn knew nothing but our own actions. A Vietnamese Colonel was the one who told us what was really going on in places like Saigon and Hue. Then the cat was outta the bag. Yes I listened to Lang Vie being over ran on the fire push. and watched jest taking off with class A loads constantly, but never grasped it. A couple months later we were rolling thru DaNang to hook up on an insertion they still had not decided on the where about's yet. We drove past these huge buildings that stored caskets in prior to shipping home. They were full! (three buildings twenty feet high) I was in the back of the 3/4 ton in full gear ready to go. The First Sargent had the driver come to a screeching halt as we watched these guys tossing around caskets. One guy was standing on one. He goes over there and gets in their face, then one guy unflaps his holster. I was outta the truck instantly with a forty round belt in my 60. I walked up and saw that there must have been a hundred slots on each side of the three buildings, and they were all full! Now Top and two of them are going at it, and I know who's gonna win. To this day I've never seen so many caskets in one place, and no one knew about it. Oh! Top did win and the guy with the 45 just froze when he saw me. A Marine group rolled up and finished busting their heads as we left. Never disrespect a KIA!

They never told us anything out west, and everything we picked up was via the grape vine or off the fire push. We heard about Bein Het and Du Co as well as a couple others SF Camps under siege (one went 18 months). The General staff as a rule were very lack luster. Some were OK, but most were not. LT's were a dime a dozen, and most were either KIA or rotated out for a cush job in the rear. If you were good they just added to your work load to you bought it. Yet the same lack luster fools kept dumping their shit on you to make themselves look good. I could deal with Westmoreland, but never was in love with him. I hated Abrams, and he should have been fraged! (probably both of them)

There is a lot of distrust in the combat zone, and you soon know who to trust verses the other. Anybody with spotless clothes and shines boots was avoided. The White House seemed to be very interested in I-Corp all the time, and the upper General staff was more interested in Tu Do Street. The food chain started in the south, and by the time the goods got north it was almost two years. We thought it was like that everywhere! Nay not so! I well remember when Congress cut off our ammo resupply during Tet in 68 just like it was yesterday! Lots of kids bought the farm over that one alone. I hope that Hartke and Bayhe burn real slow in hell!!

I will never forgive those bastards for what they did
Gary


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