"I'm curious, kid, where'd you learn about Vietnam?"
He watched Full Metal Jacket too many times. That would account for his odd sexual fixations, as well.
BTW, I'd forgotten Gen. Peers headed up that commission. He was our 4th Division commander when I was there in 67-68. I have a chaplain friend from those days who was a personal friend of the general. Speaks very highly of him.
Calley should still be breaking rocks in Leavenworth.
Heard of it but Ive never seen Full Metal Jacket. I saw Apocolypse Now in the theater many years ago but Martin Sheen has been on my blacklist for over twenty years now.
We were in the same AO. I deployed with the last unit of the 4th ID out of Ft. Lewis during the first week of 67. A Co., 4th Avn Bn. arrived in Pleiku via C-141. Our 25 Slicks wouldn't arrive for almost another month by sea. Even though I transferred to Camp Holloway on a DEROS shuffle half way through 67, I still supported the 4th ID, and later, the 173rd AB Brigade while flying with the 119th AHC. I have pics somewhere of MG Peers getting off of his huey with the cigar in his mouth. Always the cigar.
He was assigned the job of investigating the My Lai incident when he was a three star and the rumors were that he did such a good job, and was so disgusted with what he found, that it probably kept him from getting a forth.