Good question, because even joking about it in the jungle was still seriously on every man's mind. Instead of saying anything about it, most GIs remained silent on the subject. Most wounded men were placed in one of two categories: Walking wounded or carried. Most often, the carried wounded were the seriously wounded men, and many of them ended up being amputees. Men wounded in the private areas would possibly be in the amputee category; and that region is probably only known to US Army Medic training centers, which used to be, during the war, at Fort Sam Houston TX.
many soldiers
The Vietnamese lost 200 people at My Lai, near the south of Vitnam
sixteen soldiers (8 Spaniards ) (8 Filipinos)
Because of his ping pong-playing. The U.S. ping pong team got to meet President Nixon.
In ww1, soldiers were shot at dawn for suffering from shell shock and for desertion. They shot these soldiers so that other soldiers weren't encouraged to be a coward.
About 150,000 soldiers deserted from the German Army, many of them fled to neutral countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland. Only 18 from those caught were executed. In WW2 10,000 deserters were shot.
they were shot in the foot. they were shot in the foot.
Most soldiers were draftees or volunteers, and had little or no training. Many died before they fired a shot in battle
New York lost approximately 4,121 servicemen in Vietnam; they weren't all soldiers...some no doubt were United States Marines; or US Sailors manning the riverine forces in their Swift Boats, or possibly US Airmen shot down while on bombing missions over North Vietnam. New York will no doubt have a state monument with the four thousand plus men's name engraved upon it. California does.
The reason that american soldiers attitude changed was because they were attacked. Unlike WW1 Korea and Vietnam were they were drawn into the conflict, pearl harbour was a sneak attack on the US, a low blow or cheap shot if you will. This filled americans with anger and made them unite.
Dickey Chappell was a female American journalist killed in Vietnam. But there were 63 journalists killed during the Vietnam war.
During his tour of duty in Vietnam, Forrest was shot in the buttocks.