The Vietnam War

I don't know if it was true or not, but I had heard stories, maybe even on here, that when the ships would sail into San Francisco Bay returning from Vietnam, the sailors would wear their dress whites and some morons would stand on the Golden Gate Bridge and dump paint over the side onto the seamen.

Is that true?
 
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oldman said:
I don't know if it was true or not, but I had heard stories, maybe even on here, that when the ships would sail into San Francisco Bay returning from Vietnam, the sailors would wear their dress whites and some morons would stand on the Golden Gate Bridge and dump paint over the side onto the seamen.

Is that true?
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I really do hope that's not true but it wouldn't surprise me in the least. After the first incident the USN shore patrol should have been waiting for a repeat performance and then some people would be bungie jumping off that bridge before it became popular. Well it's our military people that fight and die for our freedom to be disrespectful and more so cowardly. Soapbox away.
 

Movie "1917"
British soldiers truck gets stuck in the mud
troops get out of truck and push truck
Several are cluster behind the truck, pushing...
none of the troops get mud on them from the spinning tires

If your pushing a truck mired in the wet mud and none of the mud
gets on you or your comrades-something is bad wrong (n) :rolleyes:
Having helped push sever 2 1/2's out of the mud this irritated me.
What, none of the movie makers realized what happens to troops pushing truck out of the mud?:cool:
 
jerry old said:
Movie "1917"
British soldiers truck gets stuck in the mud
troops get out of truck and push truck
Several are cluster behind the truck, pushing...
none of the troops get mud on them from the spinning tires

If your pushing a truck mired in the wet mud and none of the mud
gets on you or your comrades-something is bad wrong (n) :rolleyes:
Having helped push sever 2 1/2's out of the mud this irritated me.
What, none of the movie makers realized what happens to troops pushing truck out of the mud?:cool:
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As a navy radioman I handled various crypto equipment including keying materials, so I had a very high security clearance. It got even higher when I was on the proteus sub tender, around the nukes. I have forgotten most of the things I was supposed to forget, things the general public did not have a need to know. I was a facon operator (facilities control) on the proteus, meaning I handled all the banks of receivers/transmitters/patch panels and crypto gear. Most of the time we were moored to the pier and everything was landline. Only when we went to sea did it get technical.
 
jerry old said:
Movie "1917"
British soldiers truck gets stuck in the mud
troops get out of truck and push truck
Several are cluster behind the truck, pushing...
none of the troops get mud on them from the spinning tires

If your pushing a truck mired in the wet mud and none of the mud
gets on you or your comrades-something is bad wrong (n) :rolleyes:
Having helped push sever 2 1/2's out of the mud this irritated me.
What, none of the movie makers realized what happens to troops pushing truck out of the mud?:cool:
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Yes but the tyres were probably 6 inches wide and 21 inch diameter. Actually I really loved the movie, one of the best movies I've watched in a very long time. The movie never let you rest a moment.
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What it looked like from our flight line around 2am, the other is titled a fool hanging out. The guy sitting on the rocket pod must have had a great trust in those four 3/8 bolts holding all that weight plus him. Obviously he didn't know someone had bought bolts made in china. I just had to throw that in there because later there were Jet engines falling off our commercial airliners and that was the cause, substandard hardware bought from china.
 

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I was reflecting back yesterday about the Vietnam War. Such a waste of humanity. The only war the U.S. ever lost. We won all of the battles, but lost the war. Why? Because there were too many of those little guys coming at us from all sides. They never quit or gave up. At times, even retreating was a dishonor to them.

One evening while we (9 of us) were out looking for Charlie, it was just starting to get dark when Sammy began yelling "I got two!" I thought to myself "Two what?" Honestly, I was thinking maybe snakes. Hiding in the tall grass (we called it elephant grass) were two men holding some type of rifle. The rifles were never identified. Why they didn't shoot, we don't know, but now we had a problem. No one ever told us what to do with the men if we captured any. Both of them were very cooperative. It was like they were glad to be captured and maybe they were. We tied their hands behind their back and marched them back to base. After we turned them over to the Lt., we never saw them or heard about them again. Also, no one ever asked about them. It was as if they disappeared and I always thought that they probably did. No one could recall seeing them leave. I still have to wonder what happened to them.
 
The story of Viet Nam was explained in part when the veterans gathered together and threw their medals over the White House fence and at rivers and lakes etc. Not to mention the horrific treatment of our returning troops.
 
fmdog44 said:
The story of Viet Nam was explained in part when the veterans gathered together and threw their medals over the White House fence and at rivers and lakes etc. Not to mention the horrific treatment of our returning troops.
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As much as I disliked the war and all the casualties we suffered, doing something like that never entered my mind. Many of the returning men did receive a lot of negative treatment. Being called a baby killer, getting spit on and being given the finger are only a few of the disgusting things that happened to returning Vets, so yes, it is understandable why some of them did not feel appreciated for their service. It would take another 20 years during Desert Storm did people’s minds change about the brave men and women that fought in current wars. It was almost shameful to display anything that would tell the world that you were a Vietnam Veteran.
A lot has changed since the 1970’s.
 
My husband was in Nam and would never talk about it an I respected that. My dad never talked about his either but I remember the nights I would awake as a kid hearing him relive some of his experiences. My poor mother had a terrible time sleeping with him when he had those night terrors. She was not alone as his two brothers went through the same thing.
 
oldman said:
I was reflecting back yesterday about the Vietnam War. Such a waste of humanity. The only war the U.S. ever lost. We won all of the battles, but lost the war. Why? Because there were too many of those little guys coming at us from all sides. They never quit or gave up. At times, even retreating was a dishonor to them.
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I agree that it was a waste of humanity. I don't believe that we lost militarily, we entered the conflict without a clear game plan. I used to think that if sending thousands of troops and billions of dollars was what we were going to do, we should have just annexed South Vietnam and declared it as part of the U.S. However, getting involved in another country's civil war just makes that party seem like the invader.
 
Phú Hiệp 1966. On top of my bunker. Please resist saying, "thank you for your service". I know you mean well, I really do know that, but I am not proud of it so thanking me makes me feel uncomfortable.

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Pepper said:
Was the news fake or the story given to them fake? Are you suggesting collusion? @OldiebutGoodie
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The whole thing was fake. Vietnam did fire on an American ship by accident some days earlier. They admitted it, apologized for it, and dialogue between Vietnam and the US was satisfactory. Then the US faked an attack. Vietnam said it didn't happen the American navy said it didn't happen but the CIA and Washington faked the whole thing. It was not a mistake or a misunderstanding. It was faked pure and simple.
 

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