Re: How many Hours Over What Period Of Time Have You Played BF2 ? And Age ?
Parish :
Nice to meet you too.
Overlord :
No I don't mind talking about it. I was an MOS 11C20. An 81 MM mortar crewman in a mech infantry unit. I was also the .50 gunner on the APC we rode on. I took part in the invasion of Cambodia from 5 may 1970 to 30 JUN 1970. You have to try to realize that the Vietnam War was an impossible situation. The government lied to get us into it, and then did not go all out to win until the B-52 bombings in 1972, 8 years later. I was drafted...so I was sent against my will to kill folks no one really gave a **** about....The Congress cut off funding our allies in 1975 and led to the slaughter, torture, and imprisonment of many millions of folks we had sworn to protect in Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam. The Vietnam War was a different experience for just about everyone there. Only about 1 in 7 troops were trigger pullers. There were base camps as big as American cities.....I have recently met two of my friends I served with there after 36 years...
On another note, I see many parallels with what is happening now in Iraq and what took place in Vietnam. Not good ones. Didn't mean to be political, just an old grunt's perspective.
Larry
Parish :
Nice to meet you too.
Overlord :
No I don't mind talking about it. I was an MOS 11C20. An 81 MM mortar crewman in a mech infantry unit. I was also the .50 gunner on the APC we rode on. I took part in the invasion of Cambodia from 5 may 1970 to 30 JUN 1970. You have to try to realize that the Vietnam War was an impossible situation. The government lied to get us into it, and then did not go all out to win until the B-52 bombings in 1972, 8 years later. I was drafted...so I was sent against my will to kill folks no one really gave a **** about....The Congress cut off funding our allies in 1975 and led to the slaughter, torture, and imprisonment of many millions of folks we had sworn to protect in Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam. The Vietnam War was a different experience for just about everyone there. Only about 1 in 7 troops were trigger pullers. There were base camps as big as American cities.....I have recently met two of my friends I served with there after 36 years...
On another note, I see many parallels with what is happening now in Iraq and what took place in Vietnam. Not good ones. Didn't mean to be political, just an old grunt's perspective.
Larry
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