Monday, October 22, 2018

Memories of Vietnam: Fighting alongside a well-led unit of Vietnamese Rangers

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When Americans thinks of the Vietnam War, they tend to reflect only what our troops did. 


By Col. Keith Nightingale, U.S. Army (ret.)

When Americans thinks of the Vietnam War, they tend to reflect only what our troops did. The actions and activities of the Vietnamese military itself is largely forgotten which is unfair to the whole. The vast majority of the fighting was performed by Vietnamese troops supported by a large U.S. advisory effort bringing our resources to them. Thousands of U.S. military served as advisors from all Services to all Services. The Vietnamese units ranged from very good to very bad-not unlike our own. When we consider that they had been fighting since 1954, the varying quality and emotional exhaustion is understandable compared to our own.

Many of these units were consistently superb and were to the final end in 1975.

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