, and his story begins at 17 years of age in 1974 right after high school. Being too poor to afford college and too young to join the army, he got a marriage license so they would accept him. The military was perfect because it offered job training for civilian jobs that could help him succeed when he got out. After a year of training, my dad was sent to Laos for what the military calls OJT or "on the job training" where he held the rank of Corporal, his job was as an intelligence analyst. .
From Laos he volunteered for a special ops mission called The Evacuation of Vietnam. The main objectives were to locate certain people on a list, and get them out. The helicopter would drop them far away from their objective so that it would not alert the Viet Cong that they were there. Vietnam was beautiful, but uncomfortable. My father's team wasn't the typical army. They didn't eat rations, they didn't use bug repellent, and they didn't even use soap. They ate what the Vietnamese ate, and they would wash in the rivers in order to get acclimated to the area. The key to their success was stealth and surprise, the Vietnamese couldn't know they were there. So by eating the same food as them ensured their feces and urine would look and smell the same as the Vietnamese's, and not wearing bug repellent and using soap ensured they smelled the same as them, making it much harder for the Vietnamese to find them and not know where they are. .
They would track for miles through dense foliage and jungle as quietly and quickly as possible to reach their rendevous point. When they got there, the people they were there to rescue didn't want to leave. That didn't matter however, they had a mission, and the mission was going to be carried out. On the way back out, they were responsible for the people who couldn't move quite as quickly and efficiently through the jungle as the special forces was trained to do, so they had to sacrifice stealth for speed to get out of there as quickly as possible.
Vietnam has had conflicts since the 1800's. ... She later apologized for her actions ("Stein interview"). Vietnam greatly effected Americans. ... He says the enemy made homemade weapons out of materials left from troops (Stein interview"). ... Some didn't mind the war and where fine (Stein interview"). ...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara during the Vietnam era admits in his memoirs that Vietnam War was a mistake. ... "Whether we decide to abandon Southeast Asia or to try to draw another line outside Vietnam, the loss of Vietnam will result in dozen more Vietnams in different parts of the world. ... As Sergei Khrushchev in his interview to CNN about Cold War comment Soviet crackdown of Hungarian revolt: "don't see any contradiction because it was the peak of the Cold War and the Americans tried to support the order in their side of the world." ... Sergei Khrushchev interview to CNN http:...
"Australians were supportive of Menzies Governments' decision to send troops to Vietnam in support of President Diem's Resistance of Ho Chi Ming. ... " The Vietnam War was fought to support our alliance with the US and in the effort to stop the spread of communism. ... Menzies had a strong belief in the domino theory that would take place if South Vietnam wasn't handled properly. ... This wasn't a big issue until 1966 when the government announced they would be sending the conscripts overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. ... Both this extracts gave a different vi...
Jan Scruggs is a Vietnam veteran who served in Vietnam from 1969 - 1970 as an infantry corporal. ... He founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. ... When asked about how she came up with the design, she stated in an interview with Washington Post writer Phil McCombs: It was while I was at the site that I designed it. ... Some Vietnam veterans disagreed. ... The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated to the 2.7 million men and women who served during the Vietnam conflict (Stones and Mortar). ...
He faced the major challenge - Vietnam War. ... However, his efforts to negotiate a compromise with North Vietnam were futile. The key challenge was to force North Vietnam to consider giving the South its independence. ... He and the secretary of State, Henry Kissinger instituted investigations, interviews and eventually, illegal wiretapping and bugging aimed at stopping the leaks. ... In addition John Dean, president's counsel, was allowed to sit in on FBI interviews with the witnesses, which allowed overseeing the investigation. ...
Most general books and texts on the Vietnam War (including Moss' Vietnam, An American Ordeal, Fourth Edition) gloss over, if not skip entirely, the role of women in Vietnam. ... Statistics on civilian women who served in Vietnam are even harder to gather. ... Other women went to Vietnam for a sense of adventure. ... Elbring said in her memoirs: "I went to nursing school so I could go to Vietnam. ... Others worked as teachers and missionaries to the people of South Vietnam. ...
He chose to enroll himself in hopes of having more control over his destination, and avoid the Vietnam War. ... When I was healing, I missed my orders to go to Vietnam. ... He came from Vietnam and spent most of his time trying to get us into trouble. ... As it turns out events all put together kept me from going to Vietnam and kept me alive. ... In conclusion, I found out many things I did not know about my father during this interview, like the details of his missions and some of his feelings about the army. ...
With this being the first scene the narrator (Charlie Sheen) should have begun by introducing the Vietnam War and how the feud between communism and capitalism begun with the "independence" of Vietnam. ... Over all, this movie described an American's view of what took place throughout the Vietnam War. 6. ... Oliver Stone was born and raised in the United States and before filming, Platoon, he interviewed numerous AMERICAN survivors of the Vietnam War. ... Why did America make out to its people that North Vietnam was the first to set off heavy artillery? ... His attitude towards Vietnam...
Vietnam War The man I chose to interview was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. ... Chris: Where in Vietnam did they send you first? ... Chris: What did you think about Vietnam? ... Chris: How did you feel when you first arrived in Vietnam? ... Chris: Did the time you spent in Vietnam change you in anyway? ...
