Right. Maybe the conclusion being hinted at is that after Westmoreland, a course correction for the US policy was bound to fail? Hackworth has so many insights into so many moving parts...
@GordBrown-ui3hu Thank you for your information. I will look into this subject. At least a little bit. I was over there in the shit late in the game for two tours starting in late 1969 through 1970. My second tour started a year and a half later. I was too immature and young to know anything about what was going on. I was at all times trying to stay alive. No place was safe. When I got there, there was no command or control, and survival was up to each man. Being on a crash recovery team put me in harms way. What saved my ass was the squad of Koreans that went along with me. I saw it all. Black marketing, drug running from cultivation to distribution, murder, fragging, and the list goes on and on. Officers and NCOs would never go outside the wire. The entire military lost control. I have to praise every Pilot In Command who flew me and my team into and out of some very hairy places. I believe it was Abrams I was under, and he was, like Westmoreland, were idiots by the way the troops acted. Just some insights for you to ponder.
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Westmoreland was in Viet Nam during 1964 to 1968. This story was said to be taking place in 1970.
Right. Maybe the conclusion being hinted at is that after Westmoreland, a course correction for the US policy was bound to fail? Hackworth has so many insights into so many moving parts...
@GordBrown-ui3hu Thank you for your information. I will look into this subject. At least a little bit. I was over there in the shit late in the game for two tours starting in late 1969 through 1970. My second tour started a year and a half later. I was too immature and young to know anything about what was going on. I was at all times trying to stay alive. No place was safe. When I got there, there was no command or control, and survival was up to each man. Being on a crash recovery team put me in harms way. What saved my ass was the squad of Koreans that went along with me. I saw it all. Black marketing, drug running from cultivation to distribution, murder, fragging, and the list goes on and on. Officers and NCOs would never go outside the wire. The entire military lost control. I have to praise every Pilot In Command who flew me and my team into and out of some very hairy places. I believe it was Abrams I was under, and he was, like Westmoreland, were idiots by the way the troops acted. Just some insights for you to ponder.
@@JonHeckendorf Thanks.
"Westmoreland" wasn't the general but a retired officer/Saigon bar owner. So maybe broaden your view