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thanks for that first-hand account. But I must defend myself in that I am not a revisionist or a leftist or an ahole. You are correct in that my only 'knowledge' comes from what I read and from what people tell me. I'm certain that the number of weekly or monthly combat deaths by americans reached a peak somewhere in 67-68. It really declined very dramatically by 70 and we had very few deaths in 71, 72 & 73. I also spoke to people who said that in their infantry unit that they were in in 69&70 they went on patrols every 2-3 days for their entire tour and didn't see but 1 or 2 VC or NVA the whole time. So, I imagine that different people had different experiences, that if you were in a hot zone in 70, 71 that you wouldn't be so warm to what I said.

But I appreciate everything you said to me in both posts. And I know that the superiority we enjoyed over the enemy in vietnam was only partially due to our equipment and our tactics. It was also due to professionalism and just plain quality of individuals that we had on our side. Even when dealing with jet fighters like you were, superiority does not come merely with superior equipment. At least I brought out a first-hand account of this and I'm happy of it.