shouldn't there be more said about this subject?? Or do you guy's think "" history is history""..? =S
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2006-10-30 11:22:38 · 9 answers · asked by one 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
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2006-10-30 11:25:08 · update #1
Its funny I remember no such revolt. There acutally is a lot about Vietnam in the history books and there will be more later in years, as the history books are constantly revised and edited to decide to add and omit. I remember Vietnam almost from the beginning as I am 53 and I remember nothing about a GI revolt. There were many confrontations between officers and enlisted and there will continue to be as long as we have war. The officers are trained in the classroom to make decisions and then field trained afterwards, where the majority of all senior enlisted are battle trained in the fields and the training fields. They do get classroom training, however they are best trained from their experience in the field.
What the books need to tell is more about the truth about the My Lai Massacre. I know what is written about it and I know who was left holding the bag. It happened again in IRAQ. I don't condone what our soldiers did to those prisoners, as I don't agree with torture in any sense of the word. I feel that the usual group of senior people were allowed to simply vanish out of the mess like a fart in thin air and the enlisted again were left holding the bag.
In my 24 years of naval service, I read of many times an officer was allowed to resign his or her commission rather than face charges which could have ruined their career. But they are officers and they have the right to decide if they should resign or face a courts martial. I did not agree with it then and I still do not agree with it. When a crime is committed, the guility should face the punnishment if the victim decides to press charges, not be given a choice of one or the other.
2006-10-30 11:39:51 · answer #1 · answered by handyman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-28 08:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by schwager 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that's the thing about history, Vietnam went on for over a decade and LOTS of things happened before and during that time, but it will just occupy a page or less in the history books.
2006-10-30 11:25:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speaking as a two tour Vietnam vet, I say you're full of it. There was no revolt, period. In war, many times troops refuse direct orders, but this is not a revolt, this is insubordination & is dealt with severely. You should get your facts straight before you go spreading trash, but since you've never served in the military, much less in combat, one can expect no more than inuendo from you.
2006-10-30 11:37:50 · answer #4 · answered by preacher55 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because there was not one. The majority of the GI's fought as well as could be expected, draftee or volunteer. It was a lousy war in the sense of being kept on a leash and not being allowed to do what was required to win it by the politicians. But it was not a war to be ashamed of or how it was fought. At the very end of the war, when it was clear no one wanted to win, units skated, did as little as possible, and some even refused to take up seriously dangerous ops. But who wants to be the last person killed in a lost war? Elite units like the 101st Division fought right up until their date of DEROS.
2006-10-30 11:40:01 · answer #5 · answered by Marc h 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What revolt? You mean the 4" potheads "that fragged their lieutenants?There was no revolt .We won every battle,yes even "Tet",it was the politicians that screwed it up.
2006-10-30 11:26:47 · answer #6 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There was NO REVOLT in the military during NAM!
2006-10-30 11:51:50 · answer #7 · answered by fatboysdaddy 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Since when do American history text books have anything to do with real history?
2006-10-30 11:25:40 · answer #8 · answered by TLJaguar 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
people choose to be historically ignorant and to be politically correct
2006-10-30 11:26:26 · answer #9 · answered by Eldude 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋