Posted on Feb 3, 2018
This is My Rifle - Original Vietnam War Song by Mark Maysey
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This is for all the Vietnam Vets on RP. I graduated from High School in 1969 and I have friends and High School Classmates on that Wall. Just know that this disabled Vet salutes your sacrifice and mourns the loss of your comrades in a War that we were not allowed to win.
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Thank you for sharing, LTC Orlando Illi. This is a debt we cannot repay and wrongs that can't be corrected.
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LTC Orlando Illi
As to your point. The failure in Vietnam can be traced (in large part) to the hubris, narcissism and arrogance of McNamara and the ineptitude of Johnson.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/readings/drew2.htm
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/readings/drew2.htm
Rolling Thunder 1965: Anatomy of a Failure
American air power doctrine was based on the concept of strategic bombardment, a concept based on two fundamental assumptions. The first assumption was that any American war would be waged to destroy the enemys ability to wage modernwarfare. The second assumed that any enemy the UnitedStates might engage would be a modern industrialized state. In Vietnam, neither assumption held true. The American objective, when engaging the North...
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TSgt David L.
LTC Orlando Illi - Thanks for your input. While I'm not old enough to have first hand knowledge, I try to stay educated as to what has happened and how things continue to evolve for our military. As both of my Sons are both enlisted I feel that is the least we can do to provide the cover out military needs to get the job done. Whomever is in charge.
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Never knew that was made into a song! Thanks for sharing! I just knew it’s what my platoon sergeant shouted at me as
he marched me back and forth on the drill field late at night.
he marched me back and forth on the drill field late at night.
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