Re: OT: Military Ranks/Computers : WAS Re: newbie question on cobol syntax

On 18 May 2007 09:52:23 -0700, Alistair
<alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>On 18 May, 17:01, SkippyPB <swieg...@Nospam.neo.rr.com> wrote: 
>
>I know blue-on-blue incidents are a regular feature of warfare but
>surely the Vietnam war versions were mostly US on US and not US on
>Allies? Vietnam is one of my occasional areas of interest and I have
>certainly come across documentation of US on US friendly fire before.
>I used to think that the film Platoon was a load of hog-wash until I
>re-read a platoon leader's diary (Tim O'Brien: If I die in a combat
>zone").

Our main "allies" in Vietnam besides the South Vietnamese were the
South Koreans and the Australians.  They pretty much worked different
areas than the Americans and were independant.  My outfit did a brief
operation with the Koreans but all they ever did was camp with us and
then go off and do their thing in the morning.  So the majority of
friendly fire incidents were US on US.

Platoon is the only Vietnam war movie I've ever seen that gives an
honest depection of what it was really like.  Full Metal Jacket came
close but had too much fantasy in it to be as accurate.

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