In war movies from the Vietnam era, you always hear the soldiers referring to the enemy troops as "Charlie". Why do they call them this?
2007-12-28 05:39:56 · 11 answers · asked by brandonolsono 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Viet Cong = V.C. = "Victor Charlie"
"Charlie" for short...
2007-12-28 05:45:06 · answer #1 · answered by u_bin_called 7 · 10⤊ 1⤋
The Viet Cong were the Popular Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam rised and operating within South Vietnam until the destruction of their movement as a result of their involvement in the Tet Offensive of 1968 when they creased to exist as a fighting force. It was an irregular military formation and was not related to the North Vietnamese Army other than for the supply of weapons, ammunition and explosives.
The North Vietnamese Army was the regular military forces of the Demoncratic Republic of North Vietnam, they mounted regular military operation from North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia into Vietnam prior to Tet, 1968 and then following Tet they were the only force opposing the Army, Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and its Western allies.
2007-12-28 07:58:10 · answer #2 · answered by oscarsix5 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
PT Barnum also said there was a sucker born every minute and from the answers I do believe that, some one said once I think Napoleon I sought the enemy and found him it was us, our politicians would not ever learn to tell the truth even if it meant it would look better for them, , stonecold Marine, where the hell was you in Nam? many of the munitions we confiscated was made by Americans , it is said that if we declared war on N, Viet Nam we would haft to try the Rockefeller's for treason,because they sold so much munitions to the N,, Viet Cong
2016-04-11 05:39:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The enemies full name was Viet Conc. The military loves acronyms so it became V.C. The military also loves the phonetic alphabet. V.C. in the phonetic alphabet is Victor Charlie which was shortened to "Charlie"
2007-12-28 05:55:49 · answer #4 · answered by jimmy s 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Viet Cong
Victor - Charlie (Charlie for short)
Phonetic symbols for the alphabet
2007-12-28 11:09:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The GIs always give some sort of name to most anything. Charlie was easy to say and remember other than that no special reason. Examples are jets were called fast movers, helo gun ships (one type) was called a snake rather than a cobra, rescue cover aircraft were usually called sandy flights
2007-12-28 05:50:06 · answer #6 · answered by John R 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
becase of the first two letters in Viet Cong and also the calls for v and c in our military language: victor and charlie.
2007-12-28 05:53:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
They were the VietCong or the North Vietnamese Army.
2007-12-28 05:46:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Because the stupid news media was there and we couldn't call them Gooks
2007-12-28 06:18:46 · answer #9 · answered by wacky weed 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
charlie is phonetic for the letter c and C was for communist
2007-12-28 05:43:59 · answer #10 · answered by jim bob 2 · 4⤊ 5⤋