Vietnam War

Field soldiers in Vietnam were ANY men (soldiers, airmen, marines, etc) living in the field...NOT LIVING in a large base. Sometimes, depending upon how primitive it was, a Firebase could be considered living in the field. But if the Firebase had been established there for a while, and had all the luxuries of a large military base (showers, small PX (called a canteen), night club (called a EM, NCO, or Officers club), heavy maintenance section, armory, etc.) then men stationed there might not be considered as "living in the field"; especially if ambush patrols are being sent out every day and night...those men going on patrol & living in the "field" for days at a time would be living in the field. And the men at the Firebase have evolved into "REMFs" (Rear Echelon M- F-'s), whilst the men outside the perimeter are now men living "in the field."

That's how the big bases like Quang Tri Base Camp, Camp Evans, Camp Eagle, Phu Bai, Pleiku, Tan An, Bien Phuc, Tay Ninh, etc. got started. They began as Firebases then evolved into big army compounds. The hundreds (possibly even closer to a thousand) of firebases scattered thru out the country were truly living in the field, and those small firebases were abandoned after weeks or months, or maybe a few years; they were like "forts in the American frontier in the 1800s." Amounting to nothing but a fortified camp of soldiers with a battery of 6 field guns emplaced within their compound.

President Lyndon B. Johnson obtained congressional approval for the war in Vietnam through the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. This resolution was passed in 1964 and gave the president broad powers to use military force in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war. It was based on the belief that U.S. naval vessels had been attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin, although subsequent evidence suggested that the initial incident may have been exaggerated or fabricated.

Actually the film "Platoon" is a modified (Hollywooded up) biography of director Oliver Stone's experience in Vietnam; he served as an infantryman (grunt) with the 25th ID which is depicted in the film. Actor Charles Sheen is portraying Mr. Stone. Actor Johnny Depp who portrays Private Learner (a Vietnamese speaking grunt) is the platoon's translater. Depp's role had to be edited to the extreme, as his charactor was stealing Charlie Sheen's thunder in portions of the film.

Soldiers from the United States were sent to South Vietnam to support the government and combat the communist insurgency during the Vietnam War.

Both the USA & USMC used the M14 & M16 rifle in South Vietnam. Both the M14 & M16 rifles utilized the same bayonet, both bayonets were simply modified differently from each other. The M14's M6 bayonet had its release button near the hand guard while the M16's M7 bayonet had its release mechanism near the rear of the handle and had a larger barrel ring (to slip over the M16's muzzle). Both bayonets used the same scabbard, both had close to the same blade length (roughly 6 1/5"). Both had black plastic handles & the standard parkerized blade (in the Viet War all US military small arms were parkerized).

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The Viet Cong, a guerrilla force in the Vietnam War, opposed and fought against the US soldiers primarily because they viewed the US as an occupying force interfering in their struggle for independence. They believed that the US was supporting an unjust and oppressive regime in South Vietnam and sought to end foreign intervention in their country. The hatred towards the US soldiers was largely driven by their opposition to the US involvement in the war, rather than a personal animosity towards individual soldiers.

Frustration. Which is what happens when a government deploys "conventional troops" to combat "guerrillas." They're supposed to fight fire with fire (guerrilla to kill guerrilla/also known as "bushwacking") not use artillery and tanks!

Guerrilla (bushwacking) warfare induces low morale on conventional forces...part of its usefulness in war. If an army is going to deploy conventional forces to deal with guerrillas (bushwackers)...then they're just simply falling into the guerrillas plans.

There are a few reasons why asking for help can decrease our credibility. First, when we ask for help, we are admitting that we don't know everything and that we need assistance. This can make us appear weak or incompetent. Second, asking for help takes away our autonomy and makes us appear dependent on others. This can make us seem less capable and less credible. Finally, when we ask for help, we are giving up our power and control. This can make us appear less confident and less credible.

During the Vietnam War, the Selective Service System implemented a draft lottery system. All male citizens and residents between the ages of 18 and 26 were eligible for the draft. The lottery was based on birthdates, and those with lower numbers were more likely to be called for military service. The draft was controversial and led to widespread protests and resistance.

The Vietnam War caused a war at home in the United States for several reasons. First, there was significant opposition to the war due to its high casualty rates and perceived lack of clear objectives. Second, the draft system led to protests and divisions within the country. Lastly, the anti-war movement gained momentum, fueled by media coverage of the war and the disillusionment of many Americans with their government's handling of the conflict.

In May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. When the Vietnamese Nationalist (and Communist led) Vietminh army defeated French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the French were compelled to accede to the creation of a Communist Vietnam north of the 17th parallel while leaving a non Communist entity south of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangement. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower undertook instead to build a nation from the spurious political entity that was South Vietnam. He helped fabricate a government there, took control from the French, dispatched military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army, and unleashed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct psychological warfare against the North.

President John F. Kennedy reached another turning point in early 1961, when he secretly sent 400 Special Operations Forces (Green Beret) soldiers to teach the South Vietnamese how to fight what was called a 'counterinsurgency' against the Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam. When Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, there were more than 16,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam, and more than 100 Americans had been killed. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, committed the United States most fully to the war. In August 1964, he secured from Congress a functional (not actual) declaration of war; the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Then, in February and March 1965, Johnson authorized the sustained bombing by US aircraft of targets north of the 17th parallel. On 8 March he dispatched 3,500 Marines to South Vietnam. Legal declaration or no, the United States was now at war. Eisenhower acknowledged that had elections been held as scheduled in Vietnam in 1956, "Ho Chi Minh would have won 80% of the vote." No US president wanted to lose a country to communism. Democrats in particular, like Kennedy and Johnson, feared a right wing backlash should they give up the fight. They remembered vividly the accusatory tone of the Republicans' 1950 question, "Who lost China?"

The youthful John Kennedy on the other hand, felt he had to prove his resolve to the American people and his Communist adversaries, especially in the aftermath of several foreign policy blunders early in his administration. Lyndon Johnson saw the Vietnam War as a test of his mettle, as a Southerner and as a man. He exhorted his soldiers to "nail the coonskin to the wall" in Vietnam, likening victory to a successful hunting expedition. When Johnson began bombing North Vietnam and sent the Marines to South Vietnam in early 1965, he had every intention of fighting a limited war. He and his advisers worried that too lavish a use of US firepower might prompt the Chinese to enter the conflict. It was not expected that the North Vietnamese and the NLF would hold out long against the American military. And yet US policymakers never managed to fit military strategy to US goals in Vietnam. Massive bombing had little effect against a decentralized economy like North Vietnam's. Kennedy had favored counterinsurgency warfare in the South Vietnamese countryside and Johnson endorsed this strategy but the political side, the effort to win the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese peasantry was at best underdeveloped and probably doomed. Presidents proved reluctant to mobilize American society to the extent the generals thought necessary to defeat the enemy.

As the United States went to war in 1965, a few voices were raised in dissent. Within the Johnson administration, Undersecretary of State George Ball warned that the South Vietnamese government was a functional nonentity and simply could not be sustained by the United States, even with a major effort. Antiwar protest groups formed on many of the nation's campuses. In June, the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society decided to make the war its principal target. But major dissent would not begin until 1966 or later. By and large in 1965, Americans supported the administration's claim that it was fighting to stop communism in Southeast Asia or they simply shrugged and went about their daily lives, unaware that this gradually escalating war would tear American society apart. It was 1967 and the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that the war really was stepped up and a massive troop build up became enormous. Gulf of Tonkin was a resolution over a minor sea incident that Johnson had deliberately overblown to get authorization to allow for the massive build up.

The Vietnam war mattered because that was a time period when most countries in Asia were becoming more and more communist. normally, when a country becomes communist, the neighboring countries will also become communist. that is called the domino effect. North Vietnam not only wanted to spread communism, but completely annex South Vietnam. countries such as United States of America did not want that to happen. As you see, North Vietnam annexed South Vietnam because America could not fight anymore. the population was turning against them and could not fight an invisible enemy.

Pol Pot (Saloth Sar) was the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea (present day Cambodia) who led his nation into agrarian reform which resulted in 1.4 million and 2.2 million deaths where the majority starved to death and the others were tortured and executed .

The primary reason for the US not supporting the Vietnamese in their struggle for independence was the fear of communism spreading in Southeast Asia. The US saw Vietnam as a battleground in the larger Cold War conflict against the Soviet Union and feared that allowing Vietnam to gain independence from France would lead to a communist takeover.

The only results found for Ten Offensive were for Tet Offensive. The Tet Offensive was a military campaign that took place during the Vietnam War. It was launched January 30, 1968.

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The AH-1 COBRA was America's first designed & built "Attack Helicopter" that was successfully fielded in combat for the first time in Vietnam in 1965/66. It accompanied it's sister ship, the UH-1 Huey in the Vietnam War.

The official name of the UH-1 Huey was the Iroquois.

The official name of the AH-1 was the Cobra.

No. That is why there were so many restrictions in the Vietnam war & people used to say "we're fighting this war with one arm tied behind our back..." & "...why don't we go in there an win this thing!" along with "this is a political war..." ALL OF THOSE RESTRICTIONS were intended to keep the Russians (and the Red Chinese) out of the war. And, unlike the Korean War (in which the Red Chinese did enter) the Vietnam War was fought by North Vietnam alone (minus the local VC living down south).

Violent military conflicts

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I think you made a mistake. The Uss Yorktown (CV-10) was an aircraft carrier that served from 1943 to 1970. The Uss Yorktown was actually CG-48 and was a cruiser. CG-28 was named Uss Mainwright.