VC Question

David Nunn

March 07, 2016 05:08

In "Green Berets," the John Wayne 1968 film, Captain Nim expresses intense hatred for the Viet Cong. Then, he tells the reporter, "I have VC on my own fire team."

How can that be?

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  11b6r

  March 07, 2016 16:10

  He suspected that members of his team were secretly VC.
  
  
  
  
  
  And he was probably right.

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  CapnMidnight

  March 07, 2016 22:25

  We had VC working as day laborers in base camp. We caught the poop burner stepping off distance from the fence to the hooch's. You couldn't really trust any of them. The Mountain Yards, in the central high lands, where more trust worthy.
  W.D.

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  Smoky14

  March 08, 2016 03:04

  quote:Originally posted by CapnMidnight
  We had VC working as day laborers in base camp. We caught the poop burner stepping off distance from the fence to the hooch's. You couldn't really trust any of them. The Mountain Yards, in the central high lands, where more trust worthy.
  W.D.
  
  The "Yards" were good people, saved my bacon.
  Smoky

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  Laredo Lefty

  March 09, 2016 01:20

  The Chieu Hoi or (open arms) program was in operation when I was there. It was to receive surrendering enemy from the VC ranks and use them to gain intel. We also used them as scouts. In 1969 alone there were somewhere around 47,000 enemy fighters who came to our side. I recall seeing them sitting around drinking beer with ARVN soldiers attached to our unit.
  
  As mentioned, the Montagnards are good people and good fighters, and loyal to US troops. They look like American Indians and were (are) treated like 3rd class citizens by the Vietnamese people.
  
  Me with some yards visiting our firebase. They would come to get the wood crates our artillery rounds came in and make homes like we had (our bunkers) on right in picture.
  
  

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  11b6r

  March 09, 2016 04:40

  Lefty- you will find a lot of the Montagnard families in North Carolina- right down the road from Ft. Bragg. You are spot on- they were treated like crap by the Vietnamese. Some of the SF folks managed to get their former Montagnard troops and families out of Vietnam, and resettled them in NC.

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  Jim Rau

  April 27, 2016 18:10

  We had one of the Chu Hoi's who survived an arclight! He said he wanted to be on the side that had that much fire power. I often wonder what happened to him.[:(]

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