Posted on 05/12/2023 7:32:31 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
-- Ernest Hemingway
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What’s not to like about a .50cal and tracers?
An E-6 Scout squad leader I knew in ‘81 got out of the Army after Viet Nam and spent several years in Rhodesia under an assumed name then reenlisted in the US Army to finish his 20 years.
He liked killing communists, had some hair raising Polaroids from both wars.
But the worst thing he ever did was teach my impressionable younger brother how to shoplift. I always hated that evil scum and tried to tell my sister how I felt.
My nephew, grew up to be a devout, forthright, honest man, and good father to his son, Praise the Lord. Hint: my sister had declined child support when my nephew was a baby to pervent his dad having visitation rights.
.50cal ?
Ah yes, The Atlantic has his TDS screed
Not surprised by either one
.30cal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_gunner
“For the majority of the Vietnam War, the principal weapon of the door gunner was a medium machine gun (MG), initially, a M1919A4 .30 caliber MG, and soon thereafter, the M60 7.62mm MG became the standard helicopter door armament system.”
Thanks for the information; I just guessed at 50cal.
30cal makes more sense due to size.
For those who lack the intellect to recall or grasp, Viet Nam started with "advisors" and escalated. This conflict has the potential to escalate much, much quicker with unpredictable and potentially disastrous consequences.
“”For those who lack the intellect to recall or grasp, Viet Nam started with “advisors” and escalated.””
Not really.
Truman put advisors there in 1950, Eisenhower kept them there through 2 terms and then JFK came along and decided to put in 16,000 troops, so it wasn’t advisors that caused the problem and we have advisors all over the world without problems, even when they get killed.
You might want to know of that 16,000 troops, 14,000 were there to maintain the helicopters that were sent in for South Vietnam during the 1960-1961 time frame and after. Those helicopters were part of the CIA not the regular Army or Air Force.
Read the books of Col. Fletcher Prouty on this as he was very involved in that operation.
I know what they were, and how the media always writes to protect JFK which is why almost no Americans know what a disaster he was.
We can send 16,000 troops to Ukraine without calling them troops also, I suppose, as long as they aren’t infantry.
Two years ago, I read newer books about Kennedy and the assassination, and I change my opinion of Kennedy. I don’t think he was a disaster. I think he had some original thinking about foreign policy and things we need to do. He certainly recognize that the CIA under Allen Dulles had become a rogue agency and was involved in a lot of covert operations that they shouldn’t have been.
On that alone, I would’ve supported Kennedy in dismantling the CIA. If you go back and read the original charter and law, under which the CIA became in existence you will find that their original intent, and purpose was not what they ended up becoming.
JFK being elected is what ended America.
Not even close.
Passage of the 17th Amendment and The Federal Reserve Act killed America.
The Revolution happened in November 1932 along with Progressive Politics.
Not even close, Americans could survive those and reverse those as politics changed.
What America didn’t and couldn’t survive were JFKs immigration goals which have ended us.
It didn’t help that he gave us the 60s and unionized federal employees, homelessness, affirmative action, LBJ and Ted Kennedy.
History would be completely different if Eisenhower’s veep had won in 1960.
Nixon did win, but Cook County stole it from him.
We will have to disagree then.
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