Vietnam Combat Footage Part 2

WARNING SOME GRAPHIC CONTENT. This video was a news report on Vietnamisation. Its purpose is educational. It shows the incompetence of leadership, the bravery of soldiers, the futily of war and its costs.

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. program of turning over to the South Vietnamese government responsibility for waging the conflict, in order to implement withdrawal of U.S. military personnel.

This video shows its failures. In this video clip It shows the heroic activity of the South Vietnamese Army vs a well trained, highly motivated tactically superior PAVN or NLF unit better known as Victor Charlie VC.

Using their main guerilla doctrine. The PAVN show why they are superior in tactics by nature of defensive positions. In this video a unit is left behind so the main NLF column can withdraw to safety. Also a US unit fails to provide CASEVAC due to sustained NLF In Direct Fire (IDF). The NVA tactics show even though outnumbered and outgunned they control the battle. Observations are best made to understand this engagement by looking at it from the NLF side. where they constantly provide surprises during the battle.

To understand the NLF/PAVN tactics there is a good source on this link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong_and_PAVN_battle_tactics

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[realfastnigger]

where was the graphic part? all i saw was dead gooks.

[sexymalcom1970]

@realfastnigger please refrain from racist slurs. If you didnt recognise the women and children killed by a mine and their bodies strewn over the battlefield then you are either inhuman or blind. Vietnamese people are human beings not gooks

[RRaider6]

@sexymalcom1970 No, those gooks were nasty filthy fuckers who didn't even know what a toilet was. The woman would wear long baggy pants and when they had to piss they would lean one way and the piss would run down there leg. Your telling me that were inhumane or blind. gooks are nothing but animals and if you wish to argue more then go right ahead i was in Vietnam I know the facts.

[sexymalcom1970]

@RRaider6 what fact? you travelled 1000s of miles from the USA to invade a country youve never been to; inorder to murder them in their homeland and insult their culture which existed 1000s of years before your ancestors stole, raped and pillaged from the native americans. I think your more of an animal than the vietnamese. The wars over you lost just be happy you came back alive 58000 of your compatriots didnt.

[RRaider6]

@sexymalcom1970 The first part of your comment is simply every war. the native Americans have reservations and casinos now there doing great. Oh and sir if you even want to get me started on the gooks being animals i will tell you that when they came to America they didnt know what a bathroom was so they used there tub to grow plants in it. and gooks have been digging spider holes for hundreds of years knowing more war will come that means they know there doing something wrong. which is living.

[sexymalcom1970]

@RRaider6 what you refer to is that your country is more advanced. Vietnam was under occupation by many imperial nations that helped negate their technological development. Its now 2012 peasent cultures are modernising at a greater pace. I know many people in the west who also dont know how to use toilets. There isnt a Utopian society. Guerilla warfare is the oldest form of war its effective and deadly in the right terrain. In my ancestral region we have caves and tunnels too been there eons.

[ratkillerinparadise]

This stuff used to be on the nightly news. It's why the public was so against the war, you could actually see your son KIA on the evening news before the Chaplin came to your door. It is strange how we are so manipulated by the media and government today. Mostly we see numbers, and video game reenactments. Our military is highly revered, not many think about what a terrible job they have to face, and what it does to them, they are all very brave.

[harlickbalham]

A classic piece of journalism. Thanks for posting it.

[desuforeverlulz]

Tim O'Brien brought me here.

[dkubick]

"There's nothing left to say about this war. There's just nothing left to say." . . . Bob Simon nailed it.

[triple955ies]

and yet we forget and do the same all over again

[hallerd]

Fucking horrible.

[themclovin51234]

My god...this is so sad. To think how devastating war is.