Former Viet Cong speaks up...

[Archae]

The thing about this article was how they made do, and how bad the early M-16's were.

It sure as hell wasn't John Wayne's jingoistic fairy tale.


8 Things Vietnam War Movies Leave Out (By an Enemy Soldier)

http://www.cracked.com/article_22206_8-facts-about-vietnam-war-i-learned-as-viet-cong.html

[DetlefK]

1. duplicate:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026422497

[Javaman]

2. A friend of mine got his one and only purple heart in Viet Nam...

by trying unjam is m-16. He was told to grab the barrel and hit the butt on a rock.

He was in a fire fight and the barrel was red hot.

you get the picture.

he hated those rifles.

[HuckleB]

3. K & R!

[Zorra]

4. People forced to fight to protect their homes and freedom are motivated enemies. nt

[upaloopa]

5. People drafted and put in a gun fight with them are motivated too.

Motivated to stay alive. I was drafted in 1966. I had no idea what we were fighting for just like this guy. A kid who was a year younger than me who I played baseball with enlisted in the marines and was killed in Vietnam before I was drafted. That's as much as I knew.
It comes down to survival.