Nam was bad. I’d take ww2 over nam man. I’m super into reading about it though. General Giap was a genius and America really underestimated them. We knew the war was un winnable too by 65-66. Such a tragedy too
The afghan don’t stand much chance against us in conventional warfare. Their playing the time game. I hold nothing against them though. Or you guys. But I don’t think we belong there.
My dad turned into a psycho. He raised me like an nva pow though so I can handle most things. But that war fucked up a lot of ppl
When I was there, Bin Laden was still alive. I felt then, that we belonged there. After about 2011-2012, I felt we should have pulled out.
They know nothing but war. When the kids also fight, their desperate. I was made to as well. A 12 year olds bullet is just as effective as a 21 year olds if placed well. Most war now is hit and run ambushes, very intricate brawls, intended to mentally fuck up the paid soldiers. Or mines and ieds. I was once hit by a blast and idk how I’m alive but I felt the silence, then the throbbing and checked to see if I had my body parts and noticed not one scratch. Not one. My hair was all gone, my clothes tattered and not one piece of shrapnel hit me 3-4 feet away from the bomb. I believe in something idk a god you could say
When I got blown up, I was on foot, and it was a pressure cooker full of rebar, marbles, and HME (ANFO.) I was three steps away, just finished untangling my team leader’s MBITR from some brush, and my team leader saw some guys on the Northern ridgeline through his ACOG. Next thing I know, I hear, not a boom, but what sounded like the MGM Lion roaring in my left ear and I blacked out. Woke up in a cloud of brown dust a couple minutes later, PKM rounds zinging by like they do in the cartoons. Crawled to a berm, returned fire. We got some of them, but the rest fled with their bodies. I didn’t even think. My body just moved on its own.
Sounds like it. I think Semtex was used idk, I heard a woof, and then was like in a daze then heard again and bam checked myself ASAP. Thankfully I wasn’t being shot at while I was just in the wrong place, wrong time
Yeah. Honestly, when it came to the IRA and the Troubles, I respected them. The British don’t belong annexing Northern Ireland. I think Scotland also deserves their independence, particularly considering how it came to be that those two countries found themselves under British rule. We did the same thing here in America, we just happened to win.
Ireland and the ira are one in the same. The Republican Army are hero’s and freedom fighters. The provisional ira we’re doing the terrorist stuff in retaliation. I still support the Republican Army in spirit and always will. I’ll tesch my children like I was what truly happened. 800+ years is a long time. America had no biz in nam. Nam was about Michelin mostly and imperialism. Ireland is also imperialism. Ask yourself, if I were a Vietnamese who had pushed out one imperial to have another who’s side would you believe in. The commy thing too is part true. Actually nam was a proxy war to China and Russia as well. If we cared about Asian boys freedoms as lbj said, why not Ireland’s too? Same time period. We helped the Brits with Ireland actually. Then the ira too both cuz America plays all sides. Germany had ford factory’s in war production. USA did too. Only the few bombs that weren’t accurate hit his factory’s . The nva changed that eradicating policy because it worked against them. When they steam rolled in in 75 I think, mass panic. Didn’t happen then. Red scare is all
It’s just the way it is. Hatred just kind of consumes you after a while. You watch your friends die. And the same kid you gave a blanket or a teddy bear 10 minutes ago or the old man whose hand you shook is usually the same person killing them. Happened with us, too. I don’t really want to say more than that.
I don’t hate. I look at it now as ignorant and don’t blame the Brit ppl for it but their government. Just like we’re not to blame for Afghanistan or Iraq. It’s our war mentality monger government.
I don’t hate them anymore. It took some extreme measures, but I found peace in my confusion, and a release from my suffering and bitterness. Ayahuasca probably saved my life. I used to be addicted to amphetamines and opiates for 4 years.
Flir with drones and apaches and our guided missile systems are the difference. The computer systems for armaments are unreal. We’re still slow, predictable and use our ppl as bait. Flir suits, intricate ambushes that are close enough to throw your gun, and mines will prevail though if they continue to crop more and more future fighters. It’s never ending there. They could learn though more but they are very good I hear
I understand you. No need to say more. It don’t mean a thing, just remember it as a bad dream