I volunteered. I joined the Navy to avoid Vietnam. Then I was sent to Vietnam for a fun year’s cruise on Vietnam’s picturesque rivers. It wasn’t a very good plan.
But I went and I’m not sorry. I feel no guilt at having to fight communists and I’d do it again if I had to. The NVA and VC were brutal to the peasants, horribly so. F*** ‘em.
My boss on my sub was a PBR Captain in ‘Nam.