BLACK HORSE REGIMENT: 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment BEST COMBAT UNIT in Vietnam 3/3

[jimtraner]

I (along with Slim and Bruce) was on one the first airplane out of Nam to Hong Kong for R & R after Tet. We were warned not to talk to reporters about what we had witnessed. We wondered why they were warning us. Heck, all we saw had been an ass kicking we had layed on the Viet Cong. We didn't even know that there was word for Tet Offensive. All we knew was the 11th had kicked ass. I still don't know what the heck the problem was.

Alllons Brothers

[pbrucpaul]

We repelled the TET offensive. However the good ole media flashed it back to the USA and showed that we somehow lost the Big advantage of the will of the enemy. Militarily we did our job. But then again through political carelessness and the cruel realization that the conflict initially was designed to be a stalemate, many dedicated soldiers were let down. The timing of this conflict in the '60's was pretty tragic.

[dynmicpara]

@pbrucpaul USMIL at that time KNEW WHAT RIGHT LOOKED LIKE: they were LIGHT MECHANIZED with LIGHT TANKS so they could snatch "victory from the jaws of defeat"--today's USMIL bureaucracy in road-bound, wheeled trucks mouse-clicks LIES and makes excuses for DEFEAT. Don't blame the media for today's USMIL FUBARs.

[VickersIndependent]

Those M41s looked awfully like ARVN Bulldogs.

[DemonHide]

6:30-6:38. There's some words that have enormous relevance to the shit we're doing on roads today. It would seem that the most common of common sense would be to not rely on roads whenever possible. And this is being not ignored, but outright opposed by most military "leaders".