Started when US stuck their noses in2Vietnamese wish to be independent from the French. Yanks fighting 2b independent from the Brits would have killed anyone that got in their way.So you can't blame the Vietcong for trying to kill yanks. Vietcong woman have their families killed by yanks so they want kill yanks.
US justification of the slaughter. Domino theory = total BS, just like WMD in Iraq. As long politician's sponsors can make a buck from wars they always find phoney excuses to fight them
@Fokogrilo By looking at your videos, you're either from Portugal or Brazil. The last time those countries did anything militarily significant was back in WWII (which wasn't very significant at all). You do not deserve to say that another country got "ass raped" militarily from where you come from.
@Fokogrilo well you say that you are from Antarctica. so maybe you have a frozen brain?? but the least you could is cuss us out in english. or is your english limited to just a few words. have you every been in the military?
@civilwardoc1 LOL! He asks if there are Indians here. Yeah, he is here, or maybe he wasnt all there to start with? That’s what happens when you lay down with sled dogs.
@Fokogrilo LOL!!! You need to stop using a free google language translator. No,on second thaught keep on doing it for what you produce is hilarious. Reads like the translation of a whale humping.
@civilwardoc1 LOL! And that blubber came from his girlfriend, or probably boyfriend as he likes the cat-flap so much. Seems rosemarie443 is right, frozen brain syndrome without doubt, brought on from having his head shoved through an ice hole looking for a new hump, as in hump-back.
@Fokogrilo LOL!!! Now you have a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese there numb-nuts. No one gave me a loosing war for I am an Australian and my war was where you would melt in very short order frosty, your little icicle would just disappear XD! 9/11 happened in the USA not Australia dumbass. And your right about forever, the United States will remember it forever. Now go find a new blubber boy and play with his blowhole. And take your Mama whale with you.XD!!!!
@Fokogrilo Daar ist geen walvisse int Afrika lam-neute. Jy willhave om te bly waar jy is vir 'n goeie bult is. Rhodesië was vol van die gat net soos jy praat kak al day.The bosoorlog was net soos die oorlog in Vietnam ons net nooit verlore.
Olive Drab Fatigues. Is all that was given to me while I was in the Army in 1966. Unless I was in a mess hall then I wore whites . I was a cook or 94B20.
ask civilwardoc about the uniforms, i have a idea that i know the answer, but i am not sure. you see fabric camouflage was only getting started back in those days. i know what the US army wore. the PFC's, sargents etc, but i am not sure what the higher ups wore.
yes why haven't any of your posters posted about a man that might have saved your life at the risk of his own Captain Ed Freeman. you don't speak much about him or that he was a hero, a man that had been shot 4 times but would not stop flying his Huey until he had lifted 29 men to safety. yes civilwardoc this post has been going around the world because some people are upset about the fact that other people are getting into the lime light, and nobody says anything about this great man.
@Sgtkillbot Camouflage uniform? Every Corps cherry who landed wore boonie green, even if SF. Tiger stripes were worn by the South Vietnamese Marines before our guys or the Army. However, the longer you were there the more split-rig your uniform became. The problem was mildew and sweat started to destroy the fabric and stitching which meant the uniforms came apart at the seams in short order. No amount of make-and-mend kept them going. Only the REMF’s looked dapper, the rest looked like shit.LOL.
@Sgtkillbot What I am telling you is that Camouflage uniforms were not issued to ordinary grunts. However, it was worn if there was fuck all else to wear. As for the Army some did parade around in tiger stripes but they may have just been showing off. Whether or not as issue ask someone who was Army. However, our guys in ANGLICO and SEAL were issued with them but many wore a locally designed Cam which proved much better in true jungle.Ok?
@Sgtkillbot DPM.Disruptive Pattern Material,“Camouflage” has been in use for decades,long before the Vietnam War.It has evolved from being personally painted modified uniforms to the modern Digital pattern,it will keep on evolving.In Africa 1972/78 we used anything available which included Local,South African, American,British and Soviet camouflage. But in reality it wasn’t worth Wearing DPM for a well trained enemy can spot you a mile away regardless.It is secondary camouflage that works.
@TheGambitsam well maybe in your army, but the USA did not start using camouflage clothing until after vietnam. what the boys used then was what they made for themselves, i guess the USA was a little behind everybody else.
@rosemarie443 The US Marines wore DPM in WW11, mostly in the Pacific campaigns, and in the Korean War (same pattern as WW11) but only as jackets and not pants. It was that American DPM we used. At that time the Tiger DPM used in Vietnam as a full uniform was a new concept for the US and not available to us.
@TheGambitsam I am not arguing with you, did you read the post by civilwardoc, he told you what he wore as a uniform. like i have told you before i did not go to vietnam, or ww2 but i saw the uniforms that my dad and uncles brought home and some of them i still have packed away.
@rosemarie443 I did and as he said he was Army, just as I take it your relatives were. I certainly don’t question your sincerity in what you wrote, I was simply pointing out that the US Marines wore DPM uniforms long before the Vietnam War started. The American uniforms we wore were as I said, “leopard spot” and were surplus US Marine issue.By 74 we had our own version of tiger stripes, dark green on light green. Primarily T-shirts for we wore shorts, unless when fighting from horseback.
@TheGambitsam Now that you told me what the dpm looked like i do remember seeing pictures of those T-shirts, but i guess i never thought of them as dpm.
@rosemarie443 The US WW11 DPM was termed “leopard Spot” and was also available as a coverall for certain units in the Marine Corps. The cam we used. Later they had “Brown Cloud” helmet covers and basha sheets which continued into the Vietnam war where they adopted the Vietnamese “Tiger stripe” Black,green,tan. A civvy version was black on green.
why haven't any of your posters posted about a man that might have saved your life at the risk of his own Captain Ed Freeman. you don't speak much about him, about how he was a hero, a man that had been shot 4 times but would not stop flying his Huey until he had lifted 29 men to safety.
Einstein layed the plans for the A bomb, so they dropped it on Japan, Martin Luther King layed the plans for american peace , so they dropped him in a grave
It was an unwinnable war.France was kicked out a few years earlier; the US didn't learn from failed French endeavour, instead, blundered in without understanding the political will of their adversaries. The VC were highly motivated & knew the terrain unlike the GI's (many drafted from poor backgrounds) who's only motivation was to serve their term and make it out alive. It couldn't be won militarily; politically, it was tearing the American people apart thus pulling out was the only option left.
@trouzerpants - Has nothing to do with the French. Had everything to do with Government Contracts, International Banking Profits, and drug flow to markets. We were not there to win this war but to make money for a handful of greedy, and some upper echelon Military types who wanted war for their personal military records. I was in Vietnam for 18 months for the saving of freedom and removal of communism, but it was not to happen. (1966-1968)
Respect to you for serving. Glad you may it out alive. It doesn't surprise me there were ulterior motives behind this failed endeavour. I guess that to sell any war, it has to be legitimised first.
I've only ever heard of the need to prevent the spread of communism in SE Asia (Domino Theory), of the desperate south Vietnamese peoples' desire for freedom from the NVA.
With what you've just told me, it kinda reminds me of the East India Co going into China just to sell opium..
@trouzerpants You got it my friend. There was movie about a NY gangster who had connections for drugs from the Golden Triangle. Good business until he got shut down, but he was only one who used military transport (coffins) for drug transportation. That plus black market and an ungodly amount of money made from just war supplies and equipment. War is business. Unfortunately, Kissinger was right when he stated that "Soldiers were just cannon fodder to be used at the countries convenience.
@echobiz Imagine what went on in the provinces where U.S. officers had control of millions of aid money. We had our own officers from Saigon selling Australian trucks that should have come back to Australiafor rebuild. I saw some ab160 inter trucks in this yard went to get some spare parts was told by the Viet that he had bought them from someone in Saigon.Our boss created merry hell over that one.
@18tangles Yeah, Black Market was big over there. I knew two Supply types in Saigon that went to LBJ for their R & R. I heard sealed trucks left the Port at Vung Tau and when they got to destination the seal was in tact but the cargo was missing. When we hit base camp at Dong Tam the Stevedore outfit there would have cases of beer and sodas for us they confiscated, but they made no money on that stuff. It just did not make the PX. Run that forklift with a whole pallet up to the dock.
@echobiz There was big money made in drugs as well and by our provosts.I went and told the MPs where the drugs were being sold from. My American Mate had told me, he went home when he came back six monthes later The drugs were still being sold from the same place.MPs getting their cut, did nothing. Not worth peeing on
@18tangles Where better to buy security than from the security forces. That is why we have bad border patrol agents and bad cops that take drugs in and put them back on the streets. Whats your 20 pal. I'm in Spokane, WA
@echobiz That is a fact. More uniforms were sold off in Saigon and Da Nang than ever reached the forward grunts. Something you will never see in the movies are grunts fighting with Ak’s, Belgian FN’s and Nagants that they bought on the black-market in preference to that shit rifle called the M16. Crazy as it seems Chuck sold our kit and we bought theirs, and the proceeds headed North into the coffers of uncle Ho. Anyway, the first lesson in any fighting zone, never leave financially poorer LOL.
USA cant win a war becoz they dont have the ticker to finish what they start charlie kicked their sorry asses all the way back home and to this day those wannabe heros have nightmares and piss their beds in psycho wards about the fighting skills , no fear bravery and ruthlessness of the geurilla viet cong The USA threw everything at them and they just kept on coming ,& to this day USA vets strut around with medals pinned to their asses for running away lol
Does the name Ed Freeman mean anything to anyone ? Thats Captain Ed Freeman United States Air Force. Medal of Honor Recipient. He passed away at the age of 70 in Boise Idaho last Wednesday. You didn't hear about this hero's passing but we sure heard about Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray that sicko Sandusky and a 72-day sham marriage. Shame on the media.
@civilwardoc1 mate thats always been the way, over here the Dept. of Veterans Affairs keep an eye out for our V.C. recipients and if one has passed away they notify the media and they usually do the right thing. Because your services are so large the system has lost them.
@civilwardoc1 Yeah, one heck of man flying into a hot LZ several time, even while wounded to take wounded out. E-mail going around the world about him. I got one from a friend in Luzon.
@18tangles It was a joke ! My son got me a T-shirt that has a picture of Woodstock on it . It says if you remember the 60s you weren't there. I think most of the 60s sucked. I loved the 1950s the best. It was a great time.
@civilwardoc1 great music I went country in the 60s and brought back 3 tape decks from bangkok on R&R and could go to work and tape each others music all day.PUT IT ON 33/4 even the battalions were doing it put your deck on go on patrol and when you got back 4 hrs of music.I still have my 7in reels and my sony tape recorder in the shed,dont know if it would work now.I dont know I had a great time even if scared some of it. Especially when doing the visas with my wife all over the place.
@TheGambitsam Your back? Upsetting the natives! you could say that .Mate I am sorry there are worse people on here than you. Glad you are back Give them hell .
@18tangles Thanks,but I am unsure if that is a compliment or you just missed me.XD. I went on walkabout in Europe (Work) but found time to visit the Cobber Memorial. Man,that was humbling standing in that cemetery.Just like when visiting the Wall in Washington.
@TheGambitsam meant as a compliment, what is the Cobber Memorial never heard of it.I would like to see the wall, but I will never get to the U.S. What work do you do?
@18tangles The Cobber Memorial is located in VC Corner Australian Cemetery, Formelles, Belgium. I also visited the German cemetery at langemark. The huge number of casualties there was depressing. The Germans are buried in mass graves. I work on behalf of the government. The Cobbers statue is quite impressive.
@TheGambitsam Mate our little stoush in Vietnam is put into perspective over there.Fromelles: we lost over 5000 there I think Our Last big battle? Why havent the germans come back and individually buried their men,Is it lack of land or that the French will not allow it? Too depressing for me WE have some relatives somewhere over there I do not know where and we lost others in WW2 so dead soldiers were not talked about much when I was growing up. I was growing up late 40s
@18tangles Even the German graves which had headstones were multi burials. The headstones were slate grey and lay flat on the ground. The contrast with the beautifully designed and individual erect white headstones at the Fromelles cemetery was startling. That cemetery is immaculately kept. Why Germany doesn’t do more for her fallen? I have no idea.
@TheGambitsam I do not know mayhap the germans lost too many and it may be traditional to do it that way.Even the viets have individual grave stones except for the ARVN who were just ground into dust the Bloody North just desecrated all the ARVN graves, my brothers in law were lucky and their graves were left alone on Vinh Loc.However whats goes around comes around the North will regret their actions one day.
@18tangles Coming from a family with an ancestry stretching in many directions around the world we have service people who are buried all over the place having been killed in various wars and conflicts. So speaking of our dead has never been a family taboo.
@TheGambitsam It wasnt taboo but our families were getting on with their lives we still had rationing into the late 40s early 50s. Some of our reles were slaughtered by the Japs and it was a touchie subject My uncle hated the Japs so bad he would not have a jap product in the house while he lived.Noone said exactly why but another uncle was at Kokoda a medic and saw what the Japs did to us, the natives and the native women. Went away at 19 came home 45 an old man.
@18tangles Our family lost some to the Japs.My mother-in-law is German/Rhodesian, loosing family members during both world wars,the bush war,recently in Afghanistan.I think it upset her for she had no idea that the German fallen were being treated so.The German WW2 graves are attributed more respect, but not on the same scale as commonwealth and US graves.Grave desecration;Zimbabwe practiced the same.Many who died fighting as part of the Rhodesian army their graves were removed,white and black.
@18tangles I could take up that suggestion. However, I prefer that the next time I visit Germany, later in the year; I intend to request an answer from the German War Graves Commission. Not through criticism for that would be considered beyond my work remit, but just from personal curiosity. If you have an interest I will let you know by PM what that answer is.
@18tangles i am glad that the commonwealth does a good job, but in this statement you are complaining about the condition of some of the graves of the soldiers. take care and have a good day
@rosemarie443 no you have got it wrong, gambitsun was saying that the german graves in france are not looked after and that the german dead are in mass graves,I was saying that when the communists took over in Nam they flattened all the ARVN cemetaries and only those buried at home by their families were spared. Up until recently some of our dead in France from WW1 were forgotten,then found, DNA taken and reburied with full Honours.
Result North Vietnam and Viet Cong victory Withdrawal of American forces from Indochina Dissolution of South Vietnam Communist governments take power in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
jpgrygus I do not have to prove I SERVED. I KNOW AND MY COMRADES KNOW. HOWEVER YOU SEEM TO BE AFIRE WITH PATRIOTISM, GO AND ENLIST, THERE ARE AUSSIES IN TIMOR, THE SOLOMONS AFGHANISTAN FEED YOUR FERVOUR AND GO. THEN YOU CAN COME BACK AND HAVE A GO, UNTIL THEN BE SILENT. its time to put up or shut up.
@18tangles Absolutely. Never keep acommunist from his spoils.Remember what Ho said. Only the peasants live like true communists, for they have nothing.
@jpgrygus No those days are gone prostate problems and yes I do own silverware a lot in fact it is a nuisance to clean. I do have class you know,I even shook hands with a royal.
Any way you americans tell me what a communist is, all the time here is I thinking I am a follower of parliamentry Democracy whereas according to the American thinking on Democracy I am a communist. Strange I will have to write to my Federal rep and tell him.He may not know either.
Sorry, I am still a student and my English skill still bad. Hope you guy can understand what i mean.
Why so many people keep talking about uncle Ho killing his own people. Hello, American army come to invade Viet Nam with tons and tons of bomb. What about Johnson, what about Kennedy ...? Who are they? God that can decide whether Viet Nam should be divide into two part?
I know that American people also love peace, but please, don't put your anger on some one like uncle Ho.
@khoing1111 There was a story back in 67 which originated from NVA POW’s. They claimed uncle Ho had two Russian advisors executed via a pistol shot to the back of the head because they forgot to load his crates of vodka at Vladivostok.When the Kremlin found out about it they immediately dispatched two hundred cases and an associate membership to the KVD as they were so impressed by his ruthlessness over such a trivial matter. The idea that Ho was really a misunderstood peace lover is laughable.
@LongCharlieSlim Mate there is no way Ho would shoot his advisors The Ruskies would not stand for it.That is a story that is made up. No he was a nationalist before a commie and was adept at playing russia and china off against each other.Peace on his terms.
@18tangles Well, now there you are factually wrong. He did indeed shoot his advisors, in fact he admitted the episode within his memoirs. Although he did guild the lily somewhat as to why he did, but the story in fact has proven true. Which now makes me wonder, do you have communist leanings as some have suggested?
@LongCharlieSlim 1 you read the book where? who published it ,is it an American Publication? The same thing I spoke to another on this site, come here and call me that and you will not go home without a lot of proctologist work.Know what I mean. You were a vet you saw what they did. While the commos are OK for my family over there there is no way in hell that I could stay there While I can and have written to my polticians here and called them incompetant fools I would be in Gaol in NAM Cont.
@18tangles You know if I were you,I wouldn’t go around threatening people you don’t know socially.They may just kill the budgie that your smuggling in your shorts. This Anzac day threat thing you have used before, correct? Well that’s just playing a blind,. Tell you what, if you are really wanting to kick the little guys ass give him your full name, address and the little guy could take it from there but he may just bring good right and left fists to a mouth fight if you are not mighty careful.
@LongCharlieSlim I did not get all that Iam an uneducated communist you know.You must be right you called me one .I will still be in Brisbane on Anzac Day and I will introduce you to more commos.
@18tangles 18notesticles you threaten me with “Anzac day”.You pull it on everyone like a dry-fire hand gun. I stand six-four in socks and was 1st Marines heavy weight boxing champion two years running,18 and 19 years of age at Parris.I have only one foot for I lost the other one where you certainly never fought, that was during the Vietnam War numb nuts. but I can still rip your gook head off and shove it so far into your ass you will need an army of Australian proctologists to remove it.LOL!!
He threatens everyone with “Anzac Day”. It is just a kind of defense mechanism like “fight or flee”. He can’t fight worth a fuck so the “Anzac Day” acts as the flee.LOL!
@LongCharlieSlim come and see, It was you who let the communist enemy go, that is treason. You can still face charges Treason like murder has no statute of limitations. Mate you better hope that your FBI,H.S.CIA DFS THE ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE AND MARINES DO NOT READ THIS SITE. You are, as they say f....d
Ah, I get it,18notesticles is a mouth fighter. Lots of threats but no real go. Like claiming to be in Australia but he aint telling exactly where just in case you find me and seriously kick my ass and film the bum-fight and place it on youtube type of guy? LOL!
@westernmike Exactly. Like a girl, all threats and no go. Anzac Day, as if the US really gives a fuck. There were more Brits, French and Germans in Vietnam than there ever were fucking Australians. They were only there as a little gesture, a showing, like in Iraq and Afghanistan. LOL!
@LongCharlieSlim Mate there were no brits or Jerries and no french soldiers when we were there. We have a grand total of 34000 in our service you have what 1.5 million be thankful that someone backs you. Your friends are running dry. You asked when I converted to communism, gee it must been when I was 18 when I first voted but as you know I did not know about our australian parliament being communist then. Strange that
@18tangles So you fought for the other side? Thanks for the confirmation that you are a gook. Your uncle Ho might have liked you but no other fucker does.LOL!
@LongCharlieSlim we cannot have everything anyway what would you do without me? Who else is there to give you such stimulating conversation. Whats the weather like?
@LongCharlieSlim whoa calm down dude! Im Australian and I know a few Aussie vets. We were not there to make up the numbers. We fought a fierce battle at Long Tan. We fought off the VC. 500 of them dead to 18 of ours. It was a dismal failure for the commies. There was a documentary on it on aussie tv. The commander in the group was a brit and that battle made him become an aussie citizen cause of the brave way we fought. give these guys respect. 500 aussies died in VN.
@jpgrygus I was in nam the night the battle of Long Tan there were 290V.C. dead my friend Rocky Rockcliffe helped bury them when he was with 1Fld Sqn. We were not there to make up numbers MACV gave us a province to look after and thats what the Aussies did.Bring up the Battle of Coral it was bigger than Long Tan in every way. Not as big as some of the U.S. army and Marines battles The largest portion lost per head of unit strength was 1FLD SQN to mines and booby traps. we did our bit.
@18tangles It must have been hard to have 290 of your comrades killed! 500 is the WIA my appologies. But dont you say anything against the aussie troops in VN or ill take your head apart and stick it up Ho Chi Minhs embalmed corpse!!!
BTW I went to visit Long Tan. The metal plaque the aussies put on the cross is at the local police station. One of your commie friends casually throws it down in front of me whilst registering. you were no where to be seen.
@jpgrygus Dont talk to me about Aussie soldiers you creep I was one for 21 yrs How long have you done. Are you upset to learn Coral was bigger, now I do have friends who were there and no B.S. and it did go longer than Long Tan.If you are not careful the truth will be lost and you will make Long Tan larger than Kokoda.
@18tangles I've checked the Aussie military records and your name is nowhere to be found?!?!? I call bullshit on your 21 years service....might check VC records instead.
@westernmike yeah he threatened me with the ANZAC day bullshit as well. But he doesnt know that I am pretty good at martial arts. hope to see him there. He will remember nothing after his first swing and a miss.
@jpgrygus and why do you think I would swing and miss You do not know me, you are underestimating your foe .Bad mistake. Come I will introduce you to a new style.
@18tangles Niether do you know me! I dont need to know a new style. Your style is probably to run away. My style is Vietnamese martial arts / shaolin kung fu. Im pretty sure I can drop you not only in this life but for the next 10 lives you are reincarnated in.
@westernmike1 Well another puts his two bobs in. So you were first marines is that supposed to make me scared. You put too much emphasis on your marines I say our Infantry is better so where does that leave us. You served, I served you lost a foot I did not lose anything does that make me better than you NO does that make you better NO. A lot of Americans and Australians have a problem with Vietnam its over the Commos won and whether we ran away or the South lost THE COMMOS are there cont
@18tangles cont 2 and I am not a gook,I am not a noggie so dont call me one, I am letting youand others know where I will be 25 April and while you are ripping my head off what do you think I will doing? Anyway I have been told by others that we live in a free world and you can say what you want on these sites. If you do not like what I write dont read it. If you calm down I will, now you as an ex marine can clear something up. Did your instructors scream and yell and abuse you likre the cont
@18tangles cont3 instructors on youtube FULL METAL JACKET and if so how did you feel mabout it? It has never been that way in our army, ever. Not our way
@18tangles Sure I was 1st Marines and I sure do make the most of it. Why not? Do I give a fuck if it scares you? No,not really. But then again you haven’t fought any US Marines yet have you? Do you know what scared me and most of the grunts in Vietnam the most? In fact it is the scariest thing for anyone in any fighting zone anywhere even to this day. Hey! I see you are talking to yourself again. LOL!!!
@westernmike And why would I fight your bloody marines they were miles away and WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ALLIES, the ones I came home on R&R with in 68 to Sydney were pretty decent blokes I showed them around for a couple of days.They did not go back on the same plane I wonder why. Did your blokes have longer R&R? I do not know what made you scared what would scare 6ft 4ins you. Anyway how long were you there before the injury, and did your veterans affairs treat you well.We had a great one here
@LongCharlieSlim tangles converted to communism after he was captured and brainwashed by a group of VC soldiers. Unfortunately for tangles they were a group of gay VC soldiers and what they did to him that first night was unforgivable.
@18tangles I didnt do that many but I travelled more in Vietnam than you did. From the north, central, south, mekong etc etc. Small towns you never even heard of! Been to hamburger hill, khe sanh, cu chi, DMZ, long tan, my lai etc etc.
@jpgrygus and I am supposed to bow down you dont know where I have been, My lai so what ,I was at a lot of these places in 66/67 68/69WHEN MEN WERE THERE DYING, NOT SIGHT SEEING DICKS.
@18tangles bullshit! you say you went to a lot of these places during the war? fuck off! there was a war on and you were going around to all these places which are scattered throughout the whole country with no resistence?!?!?. did you do a day trip to hanoi as well? I think the only place you served was at Phuc Que province.
@jpgrygus I was there 700 odd days I went to a lot of places. Vung Tau.Nui Dat, Dat Do, Zion,Lai Khe Phu Bai to go to Phu Loc only a day and night Saigon probably 15 times,Phu Nuan, and a couple of little places.All the time with my NVA buddies. Now where was it you served tell us dont' be embarrassed. Your friends must know what a hero you are.
@18tangles It was not a book, Ho never published a book per say. Go to New York, you can read it for yourself in the archives. One thing I learned from Europe and Vietnam, communists never believe anything if it isn’t, or hasn’t, been written by other communists.
@18tangles cont2 Here in Aust we are very free, I know my family in Nam do not have that luxury but they are not looking for it, they are peasants ,happy to have children working in Saigon sending some money home ,happy that their boys and girls are able to go to school, happy to have food on the table,they have TV and the screens do not go blank through censorship I stayed with them for 3 mths in 2010. Communism does not work for me but it is better than what was there in 63 when Diem ruled.
@LongCharlieSlim Well the gooks beat you, you mongrel,you went over there' will beat these noggies" well 56000 dead later who went home beaten you and us You never finish anything. Talk Talk Talk
@18tangles They didnt beat the US ace-hole. Read some history. 1972 US bombing campaign brought the NVA and VC to the negotiation table in Paris in 1973. Agreement was reached to end the war. South was to stay democratic. In effect the US won this war cause they prevented the commies from taking over. A new Vietnam was started again which saw the commies disregarding the peace agreement and attacking the south. the south lost not US comrade tangles.
@18tangles 'beat you'? I thought you served over there? I guess it means you were beaten as well? oh hang on...you were fighting with the commies comrade 18noTesticles.
@LongCharlieSlim you are stupid, to come onto a site like this and admit you let an enemy combatant go.Why would we believe a thing you say in future.Lowest of the Low he could have killed your mates next day.
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Started when US stuck their noses in2Vietnamese wish to be independent from the French. Yanks fighting 2b independent from the Brits would have killed anyone that got in their way.So you can't blame the Vietcong for trying to kill yanks. Vietcong woman have their families killed by yanks so they want kill yanks.
US justification of the slaughter. Domino theory = total BS, just like WMD in Iraq. As long politician's sponsors can make a buck from wars they always find phoney excuses to fight them
pobinr 2 days ago
USA GOT ASS RAPED!!!! AHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHA :D
Fokogrilo 3 days ago
@Fokogrilo By looking at your videos, you're either from Portugal or Brazil. The last time those countries did anything militarily significant was back in WWII (which wasn't very significant at all). You do not deserve to say that another country got "ass raped" militarily from where you come from.
apodpora12 2 days ago
@apodpora12 Fokogrilo's thoughts are influenced by his preferred sexual fantasies. XD.
TheGambitsam 2 days ago
@apodpora12 Indianos aqui!? Fodasse a doença do mundo :D :D :D
Fokogrilo 2 days ago
@Fokogrilo well you say that you are from Antarctica. so maybe you have a frozen brain?? but the least you could is cuss us out in english. or is your english limited to just a few words. have you every been in the military?
rosemarie443 1 day ago
@rosemarie443 Yea Rosemarie, he was with the " DOG SLED CAVALRY " . LMAO !
civilwardoc1 1 day ago
@civilwardoc1 LOL! He asks if there are Indians here. Yeah, he is here, or maybe he wasnt all there to start with? That’s what happens when you lay down with sled dogs.
TheGambitsam 1 day ago
@TheGambitsam Eish que fail do caralho! :D Nau perxebex 1 caralho du k tou a excrever por ixo mama boiiiiiiii! :D :D :D
Fokogrilo 21 hours ago
@Fokogrilo LOL!!! You need to stop using a free google language translator. No,on second thaught keep on doing it for what you produce is hilarious. Reads like the translation of a whale humping.
TheGambitsam 14 hours ago
@TheGambitsam I think he overdosed on " WHALE BLUBBER " LMFAO !
civilwardoc1 8 hours ago
@civilwardoc1 LOL! And that blubber came from his girlfriend, or probably boyfriend as he likes the cat-flap so much. Seems rosemarie443 is right, frozen brain syndrome without doubt, brought on from having his head shoved through an ice hole looking for a new hump, as in hump-back.
TheGambitsam 7 hours ago
@TheGambitsam hahah ainda te doi u cu de perderex a guerrra? :D Mama boiiiiiiii! :D :D :D 9/11 para sempri!!! :D
Fokogrilo 4 hours ago
@Fokogrilo LOL!!! Now you have a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese there numb-nuts. No one gave me a loosing war for I am an Australian and my war was where you would melt in very short order frosty, your little icicle would just disappear XD! 9/11 happened in the USA not Australia dumbass. And your right about forever, the United States will remember it forever. Now go find a new blubber boy and play with his blowhole. And take your Mama whale with you.XD!!!!
TheGambitsam 1 hour ago
@TheGambitsam tax a kurtir em xer umilhadu? :D Goxtax d lebar nu olhu e? :D :D :D
Fokogrilo 1 hour ago
@Fokogrilo Het gevind dat 'n kêrel nie? LOL!!!
TheGambitsam 12 minutes ago
@Fokogrilo Daar ist geen walvisse int Afrika lam-neute. Jy willhave om te bly waar jy is vir 'n goeie bult is. Rhodesië was vol van die gat net soos jy praat kak al day.The bosoorlog was net soos die oorlog in Vietnam ons net nooit verlore.
TheGambitsam 1 minute ago
@Fokogrilo only in you mind stupid
rosemarie443 2 days ago
Olive Drab Fatigues. Is all that was given to me while I was in the Army in 1966. Unless I was in a mess hall then I wore whites . I was a cook or 94B20.
civilwardoc1 6 days ago
ask civilwardoc about the uniforms, i have a idea that i know the answer, but i am not sure. you see fabric camouflage was only getting started back in those days. i know what the US army wore. the PFC's, sargents etc, but i am not sure what the higher ups wore.
rosemarie443 6 days ago
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yes why haven't any of your posters posted about a man that might have saved your life at the risk of his own Captain Ed Freeman. you don't speak much about him or that he was a hero, a man that had been shot 4 times but would not stop flying his Huey until he had lifted 29 men to safety. yes civilwardoc this post has been going around the world because some people are upset about the fact that other people are getting into the lime light, and nobody says anything about this great man.
rosemarie443 6 days ago
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Please someone answer me this question !! How did the vietnam War affect the people in West europe and Usa ! need the answer today please !
smudismud50 1 week ago
Did the US Army and US Marines wear the same camoflauge during Vietnam War?
Sgtkillbot 1 week ago
@Sgtkillbot Camouflage uniform? Every Corps cherry who landed wore boonie green, even if SF. Tiger stripes were worn by the South Vietnamese Marines before our guys or the Army. However, the longer you were there the more split-rig your uniform became. The problem was mildew and sweat started to destroy the fabric and stitching which meant the uniforms came apart at the seams in short order. No amount of make-and-mend kept them going. Only the REMF’s looked dapper, the rest looked like shit.LOL.
LongCharlieSlim 1 week ago
@LongCharlieSlim So you're telling me Army and Marines wore the same camoflauge?
Sgtkillbot 1 week ago
@Sgtkillbot What I am telling you is that Camouflage uniforms were not issued to ordinary grunts. However, it was worn if there was fuck all else to wear. As for the Army some did parade around in tiger stripes but they may have just been showing off. Whether or not as issue ask someone who was Army. However, our guys in ANGLICO and SEAL were issued with them but many wore a locally designed Cam which proved much better in true jungle.Ok?
LongCharlieSlim 1 week ago
@Sgtkillbot DPM.Disruptive Pattern Material,“Camouflage” has been in use for decades,long before the Vietnam War.It has evolved from being personally painted modified uniforms to the modern Digital pattern,it will keep on evolving.In Africa 1972/78 we used anything available which included Local,South African, American,British and Soviet camouflage. But in reality it wasn’t worth Wearing DPM for a well trained enemy can spot you a mile away regardless.It is secondary camouflage that works.
TheGambitsam 6 days ago
@TheGambitsam well maybe in your army, but the USA did not start using camouflage clothing until after vietnam. what the boys used then was what they made for themselves, i guess the USA was a little behind everybody else.
rosemarie443 5 days ago
@rosemarie443 The US Marines wore DPM in WW11, mostly in the Pacific campaigns, and in the Korean War (same pattern as WW11) but only as jackets and not pants. It was that American DPM we used. At that time the Tiger DPM used in Vietnam as a full uniform was a new concept for the US and not available to us.
Argument simply for arguments sake is pointless.
TheGambitsam 5 days ago
@TheGambitsam I am not arguing with you, did you read the post by civilwardoc, he told you what he wore as a uniform. like i have told you before i did not go to vietnam, or ww2 but i saw the uniforms that my dad and uncles brought home and some of them i still have packed away.
rosemarie443 5 days ago
@rosemarie443 I did and as he said he was Army, just as I take it your relatives were. I certainly don’t question your sincerity in what you wrote, I was simply pointing out that the US Marines wore DPM uniforms long before the Vietnam War started. The American uniforms we wore were as I said, “leopard spot” and were surplus US Marine issue.By 74 we had our own version of tiger stripes, dark green on light green. Primarily T-shirts for we wore shorts, unless when fighting from horseback.
TheGambitsam 5 days ago
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rosemarie443 4 days ago
@TheGambitsam Now that you told me what the dpm looked like i do remember seeing pictures of those T-shirts, but i guess i never thought of them as dpm.
rosemarie443 4 days ago
@rosemarie443 The US WW11 DPM was termed “leopard Spot” and was also available as a coverall for certain units in the Marine Corps. The cam we used. Later they had “Brown Cloud” helmet covers and basha sheets which continued into the Vietnam war where they adopted the Vietnamese “Tiger stripe” Black,green,tan. A civvy version was black on green.
TheGambitsam 5 days ago
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why haven't any of your posters posted about a man that might have saved your life at the risk of his own Captain Ed Freeman. you don't speak much about him, about how he was a hero, a man that had been shot 4 times but would not stop flying his Huey until he had lifted 29 men to safety.
rosemarie443 1 week ago
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rosemarie443 1 week ago
@18tangles Lol did i say that? Why didnt i see that comment...?
lilystupidlove 1 week ago
Dumb america
MrSieish 2 weeks ago 2
nhìn lại một thời đau thương của đất nước mình.. thật xúc động!! hi vọng sẽ chẳng dân tộc nào trên thế giới phải chịu những đau thương như thế.........
smallsky1000 2 weeks ago
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Einstein layed the plans for the A bomb, so they dropped it on Japan, Martin Luther King layed the plans for american peace , so they dropped him in a grave
Ladyboy69er 2 weeks ago
It was an unwinnable war.France was kicked out a few years earlier; the US didn't learn from failed French endeavour, instead, blundered in without understanding the political will of their adversaries. The VC were highly motivated & knew the terrain unlike the GI's (many drafted from poor backgrounds) who's only motivation was to serve their term and make it out alive. It couldn't be won militarily; politically, it was tearing the American people apart thus pulling out was the only option left.
trouzerpants 2 weeks ago
@trouzerpants - Has nothing to do with the French. Had everything to do with Government Contracts, International Banking Profits, and drug flow to markets. We were not there to win this war but to make money for a handful of greedy, and some upper echelon Military types who wanted war for their personal military records. I was in Vietnam for 18 months for the saving of freedom and removal of communism, but it was not to happen. (1966-1968)
echobiz 1 week ago
@echobiz
Respect to you for serving. Glad you may it out alive. It doesn't surprise me there were ulterior motives behind this failed endeavour. I guess that to sell any war, it has to be legitimised first.
I've only ever heard of the need to prevent the spread of communism in SE Asia (Domino Theory), of the desperate south Vietnamese peoples' desire for freedom from the NVA.
With what you've just told me, it kinda reminds me of the East India Co going into China just to sell opium..
trouzerpants 1 week ago
@trouzerpants You got it my friend. There was movie about a NY gangster who had connections for drugs from the Golden Triangle. Good business until he got shut down, but he was only one who used military transport (coffins) for drug transportation. That plus black market and an ungodly amount of money made from just war supplies and equipment. War is business. Unfortunately, Kissinger was right when he stated that "Soldiers were just cannon fodder to be used at the countries convenience.
echobiz 1 week ago
@echobiz thats right There is a certain golfer whose father made a fortune.
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles that is one I never heard of but then I never followed golf. Always raining and I didn't want to get my balls wet.
echobiz 1 week ago
@echobiz Imagine what went on in the provinces where U.S. officers had control of millions of aid money. We had our own officers from Saigon selling Australian trucks that should have come back to Australiafor rebuild. I saw some ab160 inter trucks in this yard went to get some spare parts was told by the Viet that he had bought them from someone in Saigon.Our boss created merry hell over that one.
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles Yeah, Black Market was big over there. I knew two Supply types in Saigon that went to LBJ for their R & R. I heard sealed trucks left the Port at Vung Tau and when they got to destination the seal was in tact but the cargo was missing. When we hit base camp at Dong Tam the Stevedore outfit there would have cases of beer and sodas for us they confiscated, but they made no money on that stuff. It just did not make the PX. Run that forklift with a whole pallet up to the dock.
echobiz 1 week ago
@echobiz Infantry loved us as we would pass out cases to them in the field. They did not care that is was warm.
echobiz 1 week ago
@echobiz There was big money made in drugs as well and by our provosts.I went and told the MPs where the drugs were being sold from. My American Mate had told me, he went home when he came back six monthes later The drugs were still being sold from the same place.MPs getting their cut, did nothing. Not worth peeing on
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles Where better to buy security than from the security forces. That is why we have bad border patrol agents and bad cops that take drugs in and put them back on the streets. Whats your 20 pal. I'm in Spokane, WA
echobiz 1 week ago
@echobiz Brisbane Qld Australia.who were you with in Nam and when?
18tangles 1 week ago
@echobiz That is a fact. More uniforms were sold off in Saigon and Da Nang than ever reached the forward grunts. Something you will never see in the movies are grunts fighting with Ak’s, Belgian FN’s and Nagants that they bought on the black-market in preference to that shit rifle called the M16. Crazy as it seems Chuck sold our kit and we bought theirs, and the proceeds headed North into the coffers of uncle Ho. Anyway, the first lesson in any fighting zone, never leave financially poorer LOL.
LongCharlieSlim 1 week ago
HURA!
Dieguitopurometal 2 weeks ago
such a meaningless war!! it doesnt matter who "won". in war, everyone´s a loser.
valleperzzon 3 weeks ago
@valleperzzon In war everyone loses but those profiting; i.e. international bankers, Government Contractors, etc.
echobiz 1 week ago
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USA cant win a war becoz they dont have the ticker to finish what they start charlie kicked their sorry asses all the way back home and to this day those wannabe heros have nightmares and piss their beds in psycho wards about the fighting skills , no fear bravery and ruthlessness of the geurilla viet cong The USA threw everything at them and they just kept on coming ,& to this day USA vets strut around with medals pinned to their asses for running away lol
WangkorWat 3 weeks ago
my brother was in Vietnam
charlosgibson 3 weeks ago
@charlosgibson God Bless your brother. Tell him thanks and welcome home . He will know what that means. Take care.
civilwardoc1 3 weeks ago
US lost this war, that the truth
InviictaX 3 weeks ago
@InviictaX Why because your sorry ass says so ? Get a life young man . Go play your Xbox .
civilwardoc1 3 weeks ago
@InviictaX no the USA did not loose , because it was not a war, it was a cold action, go back and read. and find out the truth
rosemarie443 3 weeks ago
Does the name Ed Freeman mean anything to anyone ? Thats Captain Ed Freeman United States Air Force. Medal of Honor Recipient. He passed away at the age of 70 in Boise Idaho last Wednesday. You didn't hear about this hero's passing but we sure heard about Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray that sicko Sandusky and a 72-day sham marriage. Shame on the media.
civilwardoc1 3 weeks ago
@civilwardoc1 mate thats always been the way, over here the Dept. of Veterans Affairs keep an eye out for our V.C. recipients and if one has passed away they notify the media and they usually do the right thing. Because your services are so large the system has lost them.
18tangles 2 weeks ago
@civilwardoc1 Yeah, one heck of man flying into a hot LZ several time, even while wounded to take wounded out. E-mail going around the world about him. I got one from a friend in Luzon.
echobiz 1 week ago
If you remember the 60s you weren't there.
civilwardoc1 3 weeks ago
@civilwardoc1 where were you I remember 66/67/68/69 very well
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles It was a joke ! My son got me a T-shirt that has a picture of Woodstock on it . It says if you remember the 60s you weren't there. I think most of the 60s sucked. I loved the 1950s the best. It was a great time.
civilwardoc1 3 weeks ago
@civilwardoc1 great music I went country in the 60s and brought back 3 tape decks from bangkok on R&R and could go to work and tape each others music all day.PUT IT ON 33/4 even the battalions were doing it put your deck on go on patrol and when you got back 4 hrs of music.I still have my 7in reels and my sony tape recorder in the shed,dont know if it would work now.I dont know I had a great time even if scared some of it. Especially when doing the visas with my wife all over the place.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles I still have mine too. It still works. Check my channel out. I posted alot of music there. Take care.
civilwardoc1 3 weeks ago
@civilwardoc1 I will
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles How’s it hanging? Hope you haven’t been overly upsetting the natives.XD.
TheGambitsam 2 weeks ago
@TheGambitsam Your back? Upsetting the natives! you could say that .Mate I am sorry there are worse people on here than you. Glad you are back Give them hell .
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles Of course you remember it well...you were sitting with your VC comrades down the cu chi tunnels singing commie war songs.
jpgrygus 1 week ago
@jpgrygus why of course I was and had a great time.They really went for Waltzing Matilda and Tie Me Kangaroo Down
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles Thanks,but I am unsure if that is a compliment or you just missed me.XD. I went on walkabout in Europe (Work) but found time to visit the Cobber Memorial. Man,that was humbling standing in that cemetery.Just like when visiting the Wall in Washington.
TheGambitsam 1 week ago
@TheGambitsam meant as a compliment, what is the Cobber Memorial never heard of it.I would like to see the wall, but I will never get to the U.S. What work do you do?
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles The Cobber Memorial is located in VC Corner Australian Cemetery, Formelles, Belgium. I also visited the German cemetery at langemark. The huge number of casualties there was depressing. The Germans are buried in mass graves. I work on behalf of the government. The Cobbers statue is quite impressive.
TheGambitsam 1 week ago
@TheGambitsam Mate our little stoush in Vietnam is put into perspective over there.Fromelles: we lost over 5000 there I think Our Last big battle? Why havent the germans come back and individually buried their men,Is it lack of land or that the French will not allow it? Too depressing for me WE have some relatives somewhere over there I do not know where and we lost others in WW2 so dead soldiers were not talked about much when I was growing up. I was growing up late 40s
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles Even the German graves which had headstones were multi burials. The headstones were slate grey and lay flat on the ground. The contrast with the beautifully designed and individual erect white headstones at the Fromelles cemetery was startling. That cemetery is immaculately kept. Why Germany doesn’t do more for her fallen? I have no idea.
TheGambitsam 1 week ago
@TheGambitsam I do not know mayhap the germans lost too many and it may be traditional to do it that way.Even the viets have individual grave stones except for the ARVN who were just ground into dust the Bloody North just desecrated all the ARVN graves, my brothers in law were lucky and their graves were left alone on Vinh Loc.However whats goes around comes around the North will regret their actions one day.
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles Coming from a family with an ancestry stretching in many directions around the world we have service people who are buried all over the place having been killed in various wars and conflicts. So speaking of our dead has never been a family taboo.
TheGambitsam 1 week ago
@TheGambitsam It wasnt taboo but our families were getting on with their lives we still had rationing into the late 40s early 50s. Some of our reles were slaughtered by the Japs and it was a touchie subject My uncle hated the Japs so bad he would not have a jap product in the house while he lived.Noone said exactly why but another uncle was at Kokoda a medic and saw what the Japs did to us, the natives and the native women. Went away at 19 came home 45 an old man.
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles Our family lost some to the Japs.My mother-in-law is German/Rhodesian, loosing family members during both world wars,the bush war,recently in Afghanistan.I think it upset her for she had no idea that the German fallen were being treated so.The German WW2 graves are attributed more respect, but not on the same scale as commonwealth and US graves.Grave desecration;Zimbabwe practiced the same.Many who died fighting as part of the Rhodesian army their graves were removed,white and black.
TheGambitsam 1 week ago
@TheGambitsam Mate write to the German Embassy and see what they say.
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles I could take up that suggestion. However, I prefer that the next time I visit Germany, later in the year; I intend to request an answer from the German War Graves Commission. Not through criticism for that would be considered beyond my work remit, but just from personal curiosity. If you have an interest I will let you know by PM what that answer is.
TheGambitsam 1 week ago
@TheGambitsam That will be good, while there find out if their WW2 graves are treated any better.
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles Only in America are the graves treated with respect. have a good day
rosemarie443 1 week ago
@rosemarie443 The commonwealth war graves commission do a great job all over the world . Too many places to name.
18tangles 1 week ago
@18tangles i am glad that the commonwealth does a good job, but in this statement you are complaining about the condition of some of the graves of the soldiers. take care and have a good day
rosemarie443 1 week ago
@rosemarie443 no you have got it wrong, gambitsun was saying that the german graves in france are not looked after and that the german dead are in mass graves,I was saying that when the communists took over in Nam they flattened all the ARVN cemetaries and only those buried at home by their families were spared. Up until recently some of our dead in France from WW1 were forgotten,then found, DNA taken and reburied with full Honours.
18tangles 1 week ago
Result North Vietnam and Viet Cong victory Withdrawal of American forces from Indochina Dissolution of South Vietnam Communist governments take power in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
menacinghat 3 weeks ago
jpgrygus I do not have to prove I SERVED. I KNOW AND MY COMRADES KNOW. HOWEVER YOU SEEM TO BE AFIRE WITH PATRIOTISM, GO AND ENLIST, THERE ARE AUSSIES IN TIMOR, THE SOLOMONS AFGHANISTAN FEED YOUR FERVOUR AND GO. THEN YOU CAN COME BACK AND HAVE A GO, UNTIL THEN BE SILENT. its time to put up or shut up.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles No Iraqi or Taliban or anyone from E.Timor, Soloman Islands is my enemy. So how about you enlisting in the pensioner brigade.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus COWARD COWARD COWARD
18tangles 3 weeks ago
Who didn't love the sixties?
Standuble 3 weeks ago
@Standuble I did great era
18tangles 3 weeks ago
well my enemies I have to go and clean the Silver that I pinched from the workers.Isnt that what we commos do?
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles Absolutely. Never keep acommunist from his spoils.Remember what Ho said. Only the peasants live like true communists, for they have nothing.
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@18tangles 'clean the silver' is that your code word for masterbating?
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus No those days are gone prostate problems and yes I do own silverware a lot in fact it is a nuisance to clean. I do have class you know,I even shook hands with a royal.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
Any way you americans tell me what a communist is, all the time here is I thinking I am a follower of parliamentry Democracy whereas according to the American thinking on Democracy I am a communist. Strange I will have to write to my Federal rep and tell him.He may not know either.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
Sorry, I am still a student and my English skill still bad. Hope you guy can understand what i mean.
Why so many people keep talking about uncle Ho killing his own people. Hello, American army come to invade Viet Nam with tons and tons of bomb. What about Johnson, what about Kennedy ...? Who are they? God that can decide whether Viet Nam should be divide into two part?
I know that American people also love peace, but please, don't put your anger on some one like uncle Ho.
khoing1111 3 weeks ago
@khoing1111 There was a story back in 67 which originated from NVA POW’s. They claimed uncle Ho had two Russian advisors executed via a pistol shot to the back of the head because they forgot to load his crates of vodka at Vladivostok.When the Kremlin found out about it they immediately dispatched two hundred cases and an associate membership to the KVD as they were so impressed by his ruthlessness over such a trivial matter. The idea that Ho was really a misunderstood peace lover is laughable.
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim Mate there is no way Ho would shoot his advisors The Ruskies would not stand for it.That is a story that is made up. No he was a nationalist before a commie and was adept at playing russia and china off against each other.Peace on his terms.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles Well, now there you are factually wrong. He did indeed shoot his advisors, in fact he admitted the episode within his memoirs. Although he did guild the lily somewhat as to why he did, but the story in fact has proven true. Which now makes me wonder, do you have communist leanings as some have suggested?
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim 1 you read the book where? who published it ,is it an American Publication? The same thing I spoke to another on this site, come here and call me that and you will not go home without a lot of proctologist work.Know what I mean. You were a vet you saw what they did. While the commos are OK for my family over there there is no way in hell that I could stay there While I can and have written to my polticians here and called them incompetant fools I would be in Gaol in NAM Cont.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles You know if I were you,I wouldn’t go around threatening people you don’t know socially.They may just kill the budgie that your smuggling in your shorts. This Anzac day threat thing you have used before, correct? Well that’s just playing a blind,. Tell you what, if you are really wanting to kick the little guys ass give him your full name, address and the little guy could take it from there but he may just bring good right and left fists to a mouth fight if you are not mighty careful.
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim I did not get all that Iam an uneducated communist you know.You must be right you called me one .I will still be in Brisbane on Anzac Day and I will introduce you to more commos.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles 18notesticles you threaten me with “Anzac day”.You pull it on everyone like a dry-fire hand gun. I stand six-four in socks and was 1st Marines heavy weight boxing champion two years running,18 and 19 years of age at Parris.I have only one foot for I lost the other one where you certainly never fought, that was during the Vietnam War numb nuts. but I can still rip your gook head off and shove it so far into your ass you will need an army of Australian proctologists to remove it.LOL!!
westernmike 3 weeks ago 2
@westernmike
He threatens everyone with “Anzac Day”. It is just a kind of defense mechanism like “fight or flee”. He can’t fight worth a fuck so the “Anzac Day” acts as the flee.LOL!
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim come and see, It was you who let the communist enemy go, that is treason. You can still face charges Treason like murder has no statute of limitations. Mate you better hope that your FBI,H.S.CIA DFS THE ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE AND MARINES DO NOT READ THIS SITE. You are, as they say f....d
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim
Ah, I get it,18notesticles is a mouth fighter. Lots of threats but no real go. Like claiming to be in Australia but he aint telling exactly where just in case you find me and seriously kick my ass and film the bum-fight and place it on youtube type of guy? LOL!
westernmike 3 weeks ago
@westernmike Exactly. Like a girl, all threats and no go. Anzac Day, as if the US really gives a fuck. There were more Brits, French and Germans in Vietnam than there ever were fucking Australians. They were only there as a little gesture, a showing, like in Iraq and Afghanistan. LOL!
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim Mate there were no brits or Jerries and no french soldiers when we were there. We have a grand total of 34000 in our service you have what 1.5 million be thankful that someone backs you. Your friends are running dry. You asked when I converted to communism, gee it must been when I was 18 when I first voted but as you know I did not know about our australian parliament being communist then. Strange that
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles LOL! You must have been going around with a bag over your head, if you were actually there that is.
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim I was there 66/67 and 68/69 I was a great mate of uncle ho until he died.He liked me.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles So you fought for the other side? Thanks for the confirmation that you are a gook. Your uncle Ho might have liked you but no other fucker does.LOL!
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim we cannot have everything anyway what would you do without me? Who else is there to give you such stimulating conversation. Whats the weather like?
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles where you his 'toy boy'?
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus I dont think he had one. I was not his type.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim whoa calm down dude! Im Australian and I know a few Aussie vets. We were not there to make up the numbers. We fought a fierce battle at Long Tan. We fought off the VC. 500 of them dead to 18 of ours. It was a dismal failure for the commies. There was a documentary on it on aussie tv. The commander in the group was a brit and that battle made him become an aussie citizen cause of the brave way we fought. give these guys respect. 500 aussies died in VN.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus I was in nam the night the battle of Long Tan there were 290V.C. dead my friend Rocky Rockcliffe helped bury them when he was with 1Fld Sqn. We were not there to make up numbers MACV gave us a province to look after and thats what the Aussies did.Bring up the Battle of Coral it was bigger than Long Tan in every way. Not as big as some of the U.S. army and Marines battles The largest portion lost per head of unit strength was 1FLD SQN to mines and booby traps. we did our bit.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles It must have been hard to have 290 of your comrades killed! 500 is the WIA my appologies. But dont you say anything against the aussie troops in VN or ill take your head apart and stick it up Ho Chi Minhs embalmed corpse!!!
BTW I went to visit Long Tan. The metal plaque the aussies put on the cross is at the local police station. One of your commie friends casually throws it down in front of me whilst registering. you were no where to be seen.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus Dont talk to me about Aussie soldiers you creep I was one for 21 yrs How long have you done. Are you upset to learn Coral was bigger, now I do have friends who were there and no B.S. and it did go longer than Long Tan.If you are not careful the truth will be lost and you will make Long Tan larger than Kokoda.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles Aussie troops died you prick! dont you dare say anything against them!!! All you can do is wave your hammer and sickle!
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus You are an obnoxiious little boy and you will always be one
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles I've checked the Aussie military records and your name is nowhere to be found?!?!? I call bullshit on your 21 years service....might check VC records instead.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus ah you are clutching at straws you do not have my name, you do not have my regimental no. In fact you have zip.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles I checked for 18tangles and no nickname of that sort came up.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus WELL CONSIDERING i HAD ANOTHER NICKNAME IT DOES NOT SURPRISE ME.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles Ive tried numerous nicknames that fit your profile...'traitor boy' , 'uncle ho's bitch', 'butt-merchant', 'drop-n-run' 'hanoi homo'...ive tried them all!
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus And you knew none of them, I did, so don't come at me with that crap.As we used to say to the short timers GET SOME TIME UP.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@westernmike I will be where I said I will be. Enough with the fighting talk you dont like what I say dont read it,and I wont read yours.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@westernmike yeah he threatened me with the ANZAC day bullshit as well. But he doesnt know that I am pretty good at martial arts. hope to see him there. He will remember nothing after his first swing and a miss.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus Do you live in Australia?
westernmike 3 weeks ago
@westernmike yes. And I respect the VN vets cause it was the toughest war to fight. but in my honest opinion it was right.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus
Would you like to go one-to-one with 18notesticles?
westernmike 3 weeks ago
@westernmike yes I would love to meet him.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@westernmike oh yeah!!!
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus and why do you think I would swing and miss You do not know me, you are underestimating your foe .Bad mistake. Come I will introduce you to a new style.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles Niether do you know me! I dont need to know a new style. Your style is probably to run away. My style is Vietnamese martial arts / shaolin kung fu. Im pretty sure I can drop you not only in this life but for the next 10 lives you are reincarnated in.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus Wow what a champion.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@westernmike1 Well another puts his two bobs in. So you were first marines is that supposed to make me scared. You put too much emphasis on your marines I say our Infantry is better so where does that leave us. You served, I served you lost a foot I did not lose anything does that make me better than you NO does that make you better NO. A lot of Americans and Australians have a problem with Vietnam its over the Commos won and whether we ran away or the South lost THE COMMOS are there cont
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles cont 2 and I am not a gook,I am not a noggie so dont call me one, I am letting youand others know where I will be 25 April and while you are ripping my head off what do you think I will doing? Anyway I have been told by others that we live in a free world and you can say what you want on these sites. If you do not like what I write dont read it. If you calm down I will, now you as an ex marine can clear something up. Did your instructors scream and yell and abuse you likre the cont
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles cont3 instructors on youtube FULL METAL JACKET and if so how did you feel mabout it? It has never been that way in our army, ever. Not our way
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles Sure I was 1st Marines and I sure do make the most of it. Why not? Do I give a fuck if it scares you? No,not really. But then again you haven’t fought any US Marines yet have you? Do you know what scared me and most of the grunts in Vietnam the most? In fact it is the scariest thing for anyone in any fighting zone anywhere even to this day. Hey! I see you are talking to yourself again. LOL!!!
westernmike 3 weeks ago
@westernmike And why would I fight your bloody marines they were miles away and WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ALLIES, the ones I came home on R&R with in 68 to Sydney were pretty decent blokes I showed them around for a couple of days.They did not go back on the same plane I wonder why. Did your blokes have longer R&R? I do not know what made you scared what would scare 6ft 4ins you. Anyway how long were you there before the injury, and did your veterans affairs treat you well.We had a great one here
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@westernmike @18noTesticles is selling his army rifle....good condition, never been fired and only dropped once. (yes its an old joke but a good one)
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus No we were not allowed to take our rifle home. You who have never done a days service its pathetic.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles Didnt you lose your testicles comrade tangles?
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus well at least I still have mine I think you have been emasculated by your beloved.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles When did you convert to communism?
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim tangles converted to communism after he was captured and brainwashed by a group of VC soldiers. Unfortunately for tangles they were a group of gay VC soldiers and what they did to him that first night was unforgivable.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus And how many days did you do there? I did 729
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles I didnt do that many but I travelled more in Vietnam than you did. From the north, central, south, mekong etc etc. Small towns you never even heard of! Been to hamburger hill, khe sanh, cu chi, DMZ, long tan, my lai etc etc.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus and I am supposed to bow down you dont know where I have been, My lai so what ,I was at a lot of these places in 66/67 68/69WHEN MEN WERE THERE DYING, NOT SIGHT SEEING DICKS.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles bullshit! you say you went to a lot of these places during the war? fuck off! there was a war on and you were going around to all these places which are scattered throughout the whole country with no resistence?!?!?. did you do a day trip to hanoi as well? I think the only place you served was at Phuc Que province.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus I was there 700 odd days I went to a lot of places. Vung Tau.Nui Dat, Dat Do, Zion,Lai Khe Phu Bai to go to Phu Loc only a day and night Saigon probably 15 times,Phu Nuan, and a couple of little places.All the time with my NVA buddies. Now where was it you served tell us dont' be embarrassed. Your friends must know what a hero you are.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles all those places are within spitting distance of each other...ive been to more places than you!
Ive served all over Vietnam...I served as a waiter in restaurants in Hanoi, Thanh Hoa, Vinh, Hue, Danang, Nha Trang, Phang Rang and Saigon.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus but as I said before I was there when the bullets were flying not when the BULLSHIT WAS FLYING.WHEN YOU WERE THERE
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles how the fuck was i supposed to serve there? i wasnt old enough. so how many Victoria crosses did you earn?
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@18tangles It was not a book, Ho never published a book per say. Go to New York, you can read it for yourself in the archives. One thing I learned from Europe and Vietnam, communists never believe anything if it isn’t, or hasn’t, been written by other communists.
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@18tangles cont2 Here in Aust we are very free, I know my family in Nam do not have that luxury but they are not looking for it, they are peasants ,happy to have children working in Saigon sending some money home ,happy that their boys and girls are able to go to school, happy to have food on the table,they have TV and the screens do not go blank through censorship I stayed with them for 3 mths in 2010. Communism does not work for me but it is better than what was there in 63 when Diem ruled.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles Why are you talking to yourself like a gook? Fucking hilarious!!!! The games up numb nuts.
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim Well the gooks beat you, you mongrel,you went over there' will beat these noggies" well 56000 dead later who went home beaten you and us You never finish anything. Talk Talk Talk
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles They didnt beat the US ace-hole. Read some history. 1972 US bombing campaign brought the NVA and VC to the negotiation table in Paris in 1973. Agreement was reached to end the war. South was to stay democratic. In effect the US won this war cause they prevented the commies from taking over. A new Vietnam was started again which saw the commies disregarding the peace agreement and attacking the south. the south lost not US comrade tangles.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@jpgrygus Who controls vietnam today, and who said we will fight to abolish communism from vIETNAM the U.S. LBJ IN 64 in Australia.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles 'beat you'? I thought you served over there? I guess it means you were beaten as well? oh hang on...you were fighting with the commies comrade 18noTesticles.
jpgrygus 3 weeks ago
@LongCharlieSlim I do not think you are a vet.
18tangles 3 weeks ago
@18tangles LOL! As if anyone realy gives a fuck what you think anymore. A gook who talks to himself is now your mark.
LongCharlieSlim 3 weeks ago 3
@LongCharlieSlim you are stupid, to come onto a site like this and admit you let an enemy combatant go.Why would we believe a thing you say in future.Lowest of the Low he could have killed your mates next day.
18tangles 3 weeks ago