I find many of my international friends are largely ignorant of this fact.
2007-01-23 08:53:13 · 23 answers · asked by Livian 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Yes and we are even aware that 4 Australian soldiers received the Victoria Cross the highest decoration for valor for actions during the Vietnam war.
Did you know that ? be honest now.
2007-01-23 09:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Low key insurgencies are not person-friendly to suppress. A small type of terrorists unchecked may reason a superb volume of harm with a touch attempt. and they have the intuitive. till they're typically tracked down and arrested or killed they're waiting to %. and decide the time and position the position they strike. To counter this adaptability it takes a cop (or a soldier) on each street nook to guard the inhabitants. meaning there rather some troops, maximum of them status round no longer doing a lot of something, to grant protection and defeat the insurgents. this may (and typically does) take a lengthy-time period dedication (robotically about ten years).
2016-10-16 00:14:33 · answer #2 · answered by filonuk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, IIRC 1/RAR, and 22 SAS from ground forces, and two squadrons from RAAF (flying Canberras/helos). They were in the I Corps area, working Counterinsurgency.
By all accounts great troops, then. Still great troops, no one better to be working with!
BTW, the Koreans, and PI also sent contingents.
2007-01-23 09:44:37 · answer #3 · answered by jim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't so much that Australia sent them, but many of them as well as Canadians and Brits came to the USA and enlisted for service. Last time I was in Sydney I met a bunch and we had a hell of a drunk that night.
2007-01-23 09:42:50 · answer #4 · answered by nazilover1488 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, absolutely. So did New Zealand and South Korea.
There are a lot of things younger, and some older, Americans don't know anything about. That's public education for you.
2007-01-23 09:10:50 · answer #5 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your hole generation is ignorant of this and much more. The Aussie's are good friends of the US, they have always been there in time of need. Vietnam is probably one they would like to forget, like so many of us.
2007-01-23 12:37:25 · answer #6 · answered by briang731/ bvincent 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I knew that. They had a sort of head start on us, because they fought in that area before. (or was it Malaysia?) I can't remember.
Aussies kick mucho a*s. The Canadians stayed away from Nam.
We love Australians, just leave that vegemite at home.
G'day
2007-01-23 11:09:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. (but I could be just saying that)t A better way to find out this kind of info.would have been to ask "Did Austrailia send troops to fight in the Viet Nam War'?
2007-01-23 08:58:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ah you bet Mum Sahib... and the best fighters they were... the best of the best, all over S.E. Asia. Memories of Lucy's Tiger Den in Bangkok.... An old American spook who knows.
2007-01-23 09:53:20 · answer #9 · answered by Gunny T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep, the U.N. had sent a force to Vietnam
2007-01-23 08:56:12 · answer #10 · answered by trigunmarksman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋