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Anonymous No.64204315 [Report] >>64204327 >>64204367 >>64204809 >>64205196 >>64205351 >>64205613 >>64208040 >>64208757 >>64215738 >>64216873 >>64218933 >>64221160 >>64227960 >>64242109 >>64242248
Did soldiers in nam dress like this? Sleeveless torn up shirts and bandanas? Didn't they have a grooming etiquette like other militaries, or were simply let by the US gov to look like hobos?
Anonymous No.64204327 [Report] >>64208705 >>64218928
>>64204315 (OP)
>Sleeveless torn up shirts and bandanas?
they wouldnt deliberately tear their sleeves off
not just because its against regulation but because the sleeves helped keep mosquitoes from biting them
not just that but clothes were always a bottom tier priority compared to petrol and bullets, so they werent going to rip them up when a new one wasnt guaranteed

it was more common to roll up their sleeves which did the same thing but without permanently damaging it
Anonymous No.64204343 [Report] >>64217494
No, platoon is just a movie women made up to ogle biceps for 2 hours
Anonymous No.64204359 [Report] >>64204880 >>64205360 >>64207487
Anonymous No.64204367 [Report] >>64204420 >>64205366
>>64204315 (OP)
Vietnam was a draft, you can't hold conscripts to strict grooming standards, what are you going to do, put them in the brig and not let them fight the war they didn't volunteer to fight in?
Anonymous No.64204381 [Report] >>64207932
'nam thread?
Anonymous No.64204420 [Report] >>64204470 >>64204475 >>64204834 >>64204935 >>64205189 >>64205366 >>64206640 >>64220591 >>64242254
>>64204367
Interestingly enough, we actually had more draftees in WWII than Vietnam and more volunteers in Vietnam than WWII.
Anonymous No.64204442 [Report] >>64205579
Conscripts would be more likely to personalize gear than enlisted due to lower standards, especially because no one wanted to be drafted for jungle patrols on foot against an entrenched enemy in their own geographic neighborhood.
Anonymous No.64204470 [Report]
>>64204420
do you mean by percentage?
because over 6M men volunteered for service in WW2
the other thing to note is that FDR actually ended voluntary military service in order to keep enlistment fair
you could volunteer to be put on the draft, but you could no longer directly volunteer to be on the

while conscription was enacted in vietnam, they were mostly stationed in places like west germany to free up volunteers for combat duty
Anonymous No.64204475 [Report] >>64204963
>>64204420
Probably enough stories from WWII vets telling them to volunteer for Vietnam so they can choose an MOS and just just be drafted for meat waves
Anonymous No.64204483 [Report] >>64204942 >>64206645
that's a movie...
Anonymous No.64204554 [Report] >>64206652
Roughly half of US fighting troops at any given point in the war were volunteers. Our draftees had less reason to feel motivated like in WWII.
But shit like hair too long and excessive personalization of equipment and personal gear wasn't until shortly before we stopped playing an active role anymore.
To a degree yes, but nothing at all like your pic til like '71
Anonymous No.64204617 [Report] >>64204627 >>64204661 >>64204807 >>64219689
you have any idea how hot it is in the humid jungle?
Anonymous No.64204627 [Report]
>>64204617
Most people here don't leave their mom's house and if they shoot it's at a 25yrd indoor range.
Once you realize this, the retarded opinions make sense
Anonymous No.64204661 [Report] >>64204766 >>64204847 >>64205374 >>64205410 >>64205724 >>64216584 >>64216644
>>64204617
hotter than the desert?
Anonymous No.64204766 [Report] >>64204854 >>64218933
>>64204661
Yes. Humidity makes things so much worse as it prevents sweat from evaporating. There's a reason why jungle tribals are effectively naked and desert tribals wear loose full body coverings
Anonymous No.64204807 [Report] >>64205724 >>64223570
>>64204617

That's such a kino pic.
> SSG Barnes in the foreground. "We need every swinging dick in the field, and you know that"
> The Accountant just clean yeeted some VC/villager from 450 yards with his M14 and is savoring the moment.
> The 60 gunner is cursing the Pig and telling himself a dirty joke as he clears the feed tray.
> Bo in the background is enjoying a Marlboro and can't wait to tell the boys back in Possum Corner how fun this shit was.
Anonymous No.64204809 [Report] >>64204833 >>64205133
>>64204315 (OP)
Didn't they have a grooming etiquette like other militaries, or were simply let by the US gov to look like hobos?

Man armies are such faggots:
>you can’t hecking kill that gook- your boots and buttons aren’t polished and your hair is too long!!
Anonymous No.64204833 [Report] >>64204962
>>64204809
>Didn't they have a grooming etiquette like other militaries
Of course they did. But morons like OP think hollywood movies are reality. Next he's going to be asking if medieval knights really fought without helmets like they did in Braveheart.
Anonymous No.64204834 [Report]
>>64204420
More men volunteered for WW2 than the US was willing to send due to wanting a functional economy.
The only reason there was a draft for WW2 is they wanted to send the uneducated farmer instead of letting the educated engineer volunteer.
Anonymous No.64204847 [Report]
>>64204661
I think fear from dying (slowly and agonizingly) from nerve gas is a vital distinction between Vietnam and Desert Storm.
>NVA uses nerve gas
>USA wins the war in (actually) 3 days (with nukes)
Alas, the communists were not that stupid. The Khmer Rouge, on the other hand... I am surprised they did not do anything this retarded.
Anonymous No.64204854 [Report]
>>64204766
This. It’s like being in a wet sauna vs a dry sauna.
Anonymous No.64204880 [Report] >>64204973 >>64204995 >>64205187 >>64205461 >>64206426 >>64208221 >>64208635 >>64208700 >>64210096 >>64210147 >>64217260 >>64217277 >>64217351 >>64220965 >>64229553
>>64204359
They all look like a bunch of goobers, all skinnyfat, no chest hair and manlets by today's standard. I wonder where the roided bearded gymbro spec ops look came from
Anonymous No.64204935 [Report] >>64242259
>>64204420
Yeah, because they knew they were gonna get drafted anyway.
Anonymous No.64204942 [Report]
>>64204483
No shit dumbo, you think people here haven't seen Platoon?
Anonymous No.64204962 [Report]
>>64204833
I was quoting OP my guy
Anonymous No.64204963 [Report] >>64219661
>>64204475
My great grandfather (father's mother's father) did this in WWII. He volunteered for the merchant marines to avoid combat. His son in law (my grandfather), however, hated my grandmother and loved the action so much that he volunteered for three tours in 'Nam as infantry. He would later go on to abandon his children and start a new family on the other side of town; I've never met him.
Anonymous No.64204973 [Report] >>64206426
>>64204880
Only came around during GWOT and its mostly a Seals thing, most soldiers in today's age would be called skinnyfat by most of /fit/ since soldiers mostly just haul shit all day on their core instead of doing proper lifts.
Anonymous No.64204981 [Report] >>64206426 >>64208774 >>64217285
Ain't nothing like a piece of pussy, except maybe the Indy 500
Anonymous No.64204995 [Report]
>>64204880
cringe
Anonymous No.64205133 [Report]
>>64204809
That's a discipline thing and in Vietnam at times the discipline totally went to shit
That's why it's the aesthetically superior war
Anonymous No.64205187 [Report] >>64206426
>>64204880
>I wonder where the roided bearded gymbro spec ops look came from
GWOT - instead of patrolling a jungle for three days straight, where being light and energy-efficient is of benefit, they started doing direct action raids every night, often multiple ones a night, for six months straight, while during the days they had nothing to do except rest, lift, and prep for the next night. And many of them turned to roids just to keep up because of how draining this was
Anonymous No.64205189 [Report] >>64205265 >>64205385
>>64204420
My uncle "volunteered" when the alternative was going to prison after he was caught stealing a safe.
Anonymous No.64205196 [Report] >>64205204 >>64205288 >>64205293 >>64206663 >>64206903
>>64204315 (OP)
oliver stone spent his considerable talents as a kremli propagandist, go read up on it and his interviews with puti and worship of chavez and castro
Anonymous No.64205204 [Report]
>>64205196
What's kremli? What's puti?
Anonymous No.64205265 [Report] >>64205278 >>64205330 >>64239208
>>64205189

I never got how "join the military or go to jail" was supposed to work. What happens if you accept but the military rejects you? Do you get sent back to prison?
Anonymous No.64205278 [Report]
>>64205265
Generally the judge had a pretty good idea if you were some kind of crippled by the time you got in front of him. Army tanked standards hard in vietnam.
Anonymous No.64205288 [Report] >>64205293 >>64206793 >>64206903
>>64205196
>go read up on it and his interviews with puti and worship of chavez and castro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Putin_Interviews
thus
snowden
jfk
etc etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_the_Border_(2009_film)

he's talented but a kremlin shill
Anonymous No.64205293 [Report] >>64206793
>>64205196
>>64205288
meds
Anonymous No.64205330 [Report]
>>64205265
They weren't rejecting very many mid vietnam
Anonymous No.64205351 [Report] >>64208232 >>64217229
>>64204315 (OP)
Depends on what time frame you're talking about. If its 1969-1971 when the US basically threw in the towel and started pulling troops out to transfer everything to South Vietnam, then yes.
Anonymous No.64205360 [Report] >>64205371 >>64207487
>>64204359
what are they even doing in this picture lol chopping up a hat?
Anonymous No.64205366 [Report]
>>64204420
>>64204367
The number of draftees in Vietnam increased as the war went on. There was more volunteers during the first years and more draftees on the later years
Anonymous No.64205371 [Report] >>64205560
>>64205360
the guy with the axe is blindfolded. figure it out, genius.
Anonymous No.64205374 [Report] >>64205378
>>64204661
you understand that in the desert it gets cold at night right
Anonymous No.64205378 [Report] >>64205414 >>64217379 >>64220454
>>64205374
what doesn't get cold at night?
Anonymous No.64205385 [Report]
>>64205189
that happened in WWII too though
Anonymous No.64205410 [Report] >>64205517 >>64205517 >>64228037
>>64204661
i've been in the Iraqi desert in the summer, it's actually not that bad. the wind is strong and blows into your face like a hair dryer, but the heat is very, very dry. Summer in western Europe is worse desu. Just stay out of the sun, cover your head, drink a lot of water, and you're good.

I've heard stories about the humidity of jungles in SEA, a friend of mine did a tour into the jungle of thailand, he said once you enter the jungle it's like walking through a curtain made of a hot, wet towel into a sauna. After 30 seconds, you're completely drenched in sweat. That's honestly the worst kind of heat i can imagine.
Anonymous No.64205414 [Report]
>>64205378
It gets particularly cold at night in a desert, the temperature variation in arid, windy climates is absurd, to the point where at day it's scorching hot and at night it's freezing cold.
Anonymous No.64205461 [Report] >>64206426 >>64208553
>>64204880
The roid look only came into fashion during the 80s, the era of action films starring Schwarzenegger and his ilk. Before then you'll never see many knowing what the body builder physique looked like, let alone an entire generation of grunts emulating it. And of course there's a time lag because it was the children and teenagers who grew up watching these films that were into lifting. The military doesn't like it because it's form over function, but it can't be stopped and it's basically a part of culture now.
Anonymous No.64205517 [Report] >>64205552 >>64206291 >>64209221 >>64219748
>>64205410
>Yes. Humidity makes things so much worse as it prevents sweat from evaporating

>>64205410
>I've heard stories about the humidity of jungles in SEA, a friend of mine did a tour into the jungle of thailand, he said once you enter the jungle it's like walking through a curtain made of a hot, wet towel into a sauna. After 30 seconds, you're completely drenched in sweat. That's honestly the worst kind of heat i can imagine.

Humidity plays such an important part that there's "wet bulb temperature" they measure.

When humidity is very high, you don't even need to be in an extremely hot place to get so hot that you pass out or even die!
Anonymous No.64205552 [Report]
>>64205517

Also, for reference, tropical areas have a constant relative humidity of 70-90%.

The chart assumes direct sunlight, you may not get much of that inside tropical forests but the end result doesn't even differ much.
Anonymous No.64205560 [Report] >>64205724 >>64206569
>>64205371
I don't get it
Anonymous No.64205579 [Report] >>64205617 >>64205618 >>64206685
>>64204442
Why didn't the US cut down the forest?
Anonymous No.64205613 [Report] >>64207364 >>64233286
>>64204315 (OP)
Must have only been a Vietnam war thing where this was accepted in the field. I was in the Army but never went to war but being "out of uniform" was not something you wanted and could get you into trouble.
Anonymous No.64205617 [Report] >>64233290
>>64205579
what do you think they were using napalm and agent orange for?
Anonymous No.64205618 [Report]
>>64205579
What do you think agent orange and the 'raimbow chemicals' were you colossal retard
Anonymous No.64205724 [Report] >>64206569
>>64204807
spot on
>The Accountant just clean yeeted some VC/villager from 450 yards with his M14 and is savoring the moment.
ouch
I felt that one

>>64204661
>hotter than the desert?
not always, but humidity is a whole nother son of a bitch
I've had both and I prefer the desert, assuming equal temps
go down to Florida or get in a wet sauna, fully clothed, with the heat turned to about 95 degrees and imagine living all day like that

>>64205560
seems they were just dicking around
Anonymous No.64206291 [Report] >>64207828 >>64219751
>>64205517
>be onna ship
>be inna reactor plant
>hot as fuck, it's like 104 degrees centerline
>lots of shit is steam driven
>generators, pumps, reboilers, oh my!
>get shit on by senior enlisted and officers for having the audacity to wear coveralls half-mast and sit down in the unconditioned vented air
ask me anything
Anonymous No.64206426 [Report] >>64213423 >>64215845 >>64221288 >>64226323
>>64204880
>>64204973
>>64205187
>>64205461
>you may not like it but this is what peak male performance looks like

>>64204981
Kekd
Anonymous No.64206569 [Report] >>64217414
>>64205724
>>64205560
It looks like they bet he couldn't chop something blindfolded and then when he tried it they put his hat in the chop zone as a prank.
We did shit like that.
Anonymous No.64206640 [Report] >>64208181
>>64204420
That’s because we stopped taking volunteers after 1942 and all recruits after that were drafted
Anonymous No.64206645 [Report] >>64206783
>>64204483
Made by two Vietnam vets and based on the life of the director
Anonymous No.64206652 [Report] >>64206677
>>64204554
Nah by 67-68 which was when stone was in nam
Anonymous No.64206663 [Report] >>64206761
>>64205196
Every instance of combat in platoon was based on real engaments oliver stone thought in . Also dale dye was on set to keep things as they were
Anonymous No.64206677 [Report]
>>64206652
I was speaking in general.
Anonymous No.64206685 [Report]
>>64205579
You don't know about the battle dozers?
Anonymous No.64206761 [Report] >>64206791 >>64206823
>>64206663
>based on
this phrase does duty like a platoon of Atlases holding up Hollywood's topsy-turvy view of reality
Anonymous No.64206783 [Report] >>64206808 >>64206829 >>64207257 >>64208907
>>64206645
that doesn't mean changes couldn't be made. for example the lone survivor actors refused to wear face paint when the advisors asked them to wear it.
Anonymous No.64206791 [Report]
>>64206761
based on a true story just means someone told the writer a story. the story does not need to be verified at all. that's how based on true story horror movies are made.
Anonymous No.64206793 [Report] >>64206903
>>64205293
You need meds if you don't know Oliver Stone has been a kremlin bullshit faucet for decades
>>64205288
>>go read up on it and his interviews with puti and worship of chavez and castro
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Putin_Interviews
>thus
>snowden
>jfk
>etc etc
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_the_Border_(2009_film)
>he's talented but a kremlin shill
Anonymous No.64206808 [Report] >>64207786
>>64206783
lol yes let's talk about lone survivor and historical accuracy lmao
Anonymous No.64206823 [Report]
>>64206761
no moron, every exchnage of combat in the movie is based on a combat exchnage that oliver stone was in from the initIal night ambush, the corssfire ambush where oliver stone got a bronze star and the new years day battle of 1968 and fire base burt
Anonymous No.64206829 [Report] >>64207786
>>64206783
lone survivor is slop propaganda.

>that doesn't mean changes couldn't be made.
nothing needed to be changed
Anonymous No.64206903 [Report] >>64208327
>>64205196
>>64205288
>>64206793
Nigger, he was wounded twice in Nam and got a Bronze Star
Anonymous No.64207257 [Report] >>64207786
>>64206783
>that doesn't mean changes couldn't be made. for example the lone survivor
could have stopped there, that whole movie is fake bullshit.
Anonymous No.64207364 [Report]
>>64205613
11 larp
Anonymous No.64207487 [Report] >>64207501 >>64207591 >>64208922 >>64212034 >>64217274 >>64217414
>>64204359
My grandpa took that pic.

>>64205360
Like the others said hours ago, you bet the guy he can't hit the board with an axe while blindfolded. When he takes you up on the bet and is blindfolded, you put his hat on the board and he chops it in half. Now his cover is fucked up and everybody laughs at him.
Anonymous No.64207501 [Report] >>64207523
>>64207487
Anonymous No.64207523 [Report] >>64207532 >>64207703
>>64207501
I don't think anybody was intentionally ripping sleeves off
Anonymous No.64207532 [Report] >>64207554
>>64207523
"Yep, it's fucked"
Anonymous No.64207554 [Report] >>64207562
>>64207532
Anonymous No.64207562 [Report] >>64207583
>>64207554
Anonymous No.64207583 [Report] >>64207605
>>64207562
Anonymous No.64207591 [Report]
>>64207487
cool pics, thanks
Anonymous No.64207605 [Report] >>64208248 >>64217513 >>64228061
>>64207583
And gramps himself
Anonymous No.64207703 [Report]
>>64207523
Having a tailor chop the sleeves of your jungle fatigues was a not-unheard-of mod desu. Here’s Dale Dye wearing one like that in Platoon. You can find originals for sale online.
Anonymous No.64207786 [Report] >>64208028
>>64206808
>>64206829
>>64207257
and how do you know platoon is actual factual?
Anonymous No.64207828 [Report]
>>64206291
We'd have won the Vietnam war if people STOPPED PUTTING THEIR HANDS IN THEIR FUCKING POCKETS.
Anonymous No.64207932 [Report]
>>64204381
>i don't want no teenage queen
>i just want my m14
Anonymous No.64207969 [Report]
Anonymous No.64207971 [Report]
Anonymous No.64208028 [Report] >>64208037
>>64207786
Because I’m not a retard
Anonymous No.64208037 [Report]
>>64208028
i see
Anonymous No.64208040 [Report] >>64208069 >>64215876 >>64217529
>>64204315 (OP)
If you were cool enough, you could dress like picrel and have beers with your friends.
Anonymous No.64208069 [Report] >>64215876
>>64208040
Anonymous No.64208181 [Report] >>64208269 >>64208412
>>64206640
That's retarded.

>Hey, we need more troops. Should we call up some of the men who volunteered to go fight?
>Nah, draft the people who didn't want to go at all instead.
Anonymous No.64208221 [Report]
>>64204880
It comes from faggots that spend weeks or months waiting to be called to plant a bomb or something while everyone else does the heavy lifting, they have nothing else to do
Anonymous No.64208232 [Report]
>>64205351
Lieutenant Samuel Hyde second from left
Anonymous No.64208248 [Report]
>>64207605
Cool pics, thanks for sharing anon. Hoping you managed to meet and have a good relationship with him
Anonymous No.64208269 [Report]
>>64208181
No it’s simply a more streamlined version of processing men into the military . You could volunteer to go towards the front of the line and get to choose what branch you were sent to
Anonymous No.64208327 [Report] >>64208361 >>64220979
>>64206903
>defending a russian influence threat actor
Anonymous No.64208361 [Report] >>64216024
>>64208327
do you check for russians under your bed at night?

talk to any nam vet about the accuracy of the movie
Anonymous No.64208412 [Report]
>>64208181
>Hey, we need more troops. Should we call up some of the men who volunteered to go fight?
The problem was that volunteers would arrive in large waves
So this would overwhelm recruitment offices and training grounds
Mandatory draft only meant troops arrived at training grounds regularly and units would get replacements regularly

Another problem is that it was often unfair
Some people would game the system by deliberately volunteering into a unit that was nowhere near the front line
A lot of volunteers had to be turned down because they had critical work that was more valuable at home rather than on the field, welders, farmers, and so on
The draft ensured that war-critical industries wouldnt be drained by well-meaning but mistaken workers rushing off to do their part
Anonymous No.64208553 [Report] >>64208560
>>64205461
steroids were first used by the east germans in the 1960s and had already filtered into the performance world long before the 1980s. they also don't make you big; there most likely mechanism of action (no one actually knows) is blocking cortisol receptors and therefore allowing more training to be performed in the same time frame. even those skinny assed triathletes and marathon runners are on steroids anon, every elite athlete has been using them for about five decades now.
Anonymous No.64208560 [Report]
>>64208553
Scoob is natty, and that's all that matters.
Anonymous No.64208635 [Report]
>>64204880
That's still what most soldiers look like, huge muscles with minimal body fat don't actually offer that much of a tactical advantage.
Anonymous No.64208700 [Report]
>>64204880
Are you fucking retarded?
Anonymous No.64208705 [Report] >>64217071 >>64218928
>>64204327

My grandfather served in Vietnam and he actually preferred to wear his sleeves down despite the heat specifically because he had suffered from a bout of malaria as a child that had nearly killed him and was absolutely terrified of mosquitos.
Anonymous No.64208757 [Report] >>64208767 >>64208777
>>64204315 (OP)
did soldiers reek? just imagine going through the jungle for days on end and no access to showers or bathrooms. did they even carry changes of clothes and underwear? how often do they change, and as time progressed how has hygiene and sanitation developed in the field?
Anonymous No.64208767 [Report] >>64213251
>>64208757
>did soldiers reek
They still do and we have access to baby wipes now. Some Soldiers stink in garrison, anon. You ever counsel a kid over his lack of hygiene? I have. Shit's wild.
Anonymous No.64208774 [Report]
>>64204981
charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500...
Anonymous No.64208777 [Report]
>>64208757
A lot of them didn't have to imagine it, because that's how it was. I recall reading that they did, where they could carry an extra pair of underwear or socks if they could afford to, but I don't reckon they had many opportunities to be dry enough to change.
Anonymous No.64208907 [Report] >>64220995
>>64206783
After having to wake up early and shave only to have to smear face paint all over my raw recently shaved face for four months, i don't blame them. Still saved all my leftover facepaint for some reason. It's in a a bag somewhere. Also fun fact, some people have faces that just absorb the face paint. One guy on my platoon would look like he hadn't applied anything after 30 minutes.
Anonymous No.64208922 [Report]
>>64207487
nice
tell him thanks for everything
Anonymous No.64209221 [Report]
>>64205517
I learned that this summer here in Europe. There were a handful of days where the AC in our office crapped out and we were cooked alive. I was barely able to stay awake and I got so delirious from the heat that I started writing complete gibberish and random insults on the work computer and I noticed it only a day later......
Anonymous No.64210096 [Report]
>>64204880
> these soldiers don't look like the bara musclehunks in my gay porn videos
> they MUST be manlets!!1!!11!
You realize that's what a natural "muscular" build looks like, right? See any strongman's build.
Anonymous No.64210147 [Report]
>>64204880
This entire board has become filled with 16 year old discord kiddies who don't actually know or care about the subject matter here.
Anonymous No.64212034 [Report]
>>64207487
Great prank and pic
Anonymous No.64213251 [Report] >>64233408
>>64208767
>You ever counsel a kid over his lack of hygiene?
My dad was in basic in 1980, they had a dirty guy, told me the drill Sgt gave them some steel wool and told the boys to clean him up.
I guess they also beat the absolute shit out of someone in a blanket party. The old army was wild
Anonymous No.64213261 [Report] >>64233315
I'm team no-shirt
Anonymous No.64213423 [Report]
>>64206426
>vinning
vinrar
Anonymous No.64215738 [Report] >>64215825
>>64204315 (OP)
A more common thing was modifying blouses into a vest for magazines. The LB gear had not really adapted to the switch to assault rifles from battle rifles so that was a common modification. Usually the sleeves would be kept though, since you wanted to be able to roll them down and put DEET on the cuffs/hems before sleeping. Also pretty big difference between Marines and Soldiers since USMC had mandatory flak vest use and the Army did not. NSW was also way different in their uniforms than Army SF/Rangers/LRRP. Even pilots had totally non uniform gear, a mix of orange flight suits, regular OD, and patterned camouflage, or for Army aviators even fatigues instead of flight suits.
Anonymous No.64215825 [Report] >>64216111 >>64219698 >>64220592
>>64215738
>Also pretty big difference between Marines and Soldiers since USMC had mandatory flak vest use and the Army did not
That's interesting, I expected Marines to make do with whatever they get. What was the reasoning/context behind that?
Anonymous No.64215845 [Report] >>64216060 >>64221288 >>64226323
>>64206426
to be that fag - is there a pic of topless vining or in a shirt so that we could estimate how athletic he appeared to be?
Anonymous No.64215876 [Report]
>>64208040
>>64208069
stache makes him look like a grandpa while he was in his late 20s in these pics lol.
chill movie btw, when i first started watching it i thought it's some alt history bleeding heart slop before finding out about the real event
Anonymous No.64216024 [Report]
>>64208361
>do you check for russians under your bed at night?
No, I have mines under my bed for that.
Anonymous No.64216060 [Report] >>64216120 >>64221288
>>64215845
Easily found by Google image searching his name. Pretty sinewy unexceptional build, but that just adds to him seeming harmless
Anonymous No.64216111 [Report] >>64216998 >>64219239 >>64219698 >>64219918
>>64215825
>What was the reasoning/context behind that?
Marines were hard core into flak protection and it showed. In the osprey book flak vest and ballistic it showed in the casualty data. If you wear flak then you obviously will suffere less from fragmenation but also local contanimation from dirt, wood and other nasty shit.

But it was really fucking hot however. Im sure anyone that has served in the jungle will really consider the possibility of goin inna jungle with no flak protection just to reduce heat casualties.
Anonymous No.64216120 [Report] >>64216136 >>64221288
>>64216060
He was and maybe still is into mountaineering, so it would make sense to have that kind of physique. It's kind of surreal to me that he's still alive and goes on podcasts and stuff.
Anonymous No.64216136 [Report] >>64217062 >>64221288
>>64216120
It seems like the universally best body for real world practical applications is to be skinny with muscles
Anonymous No.64216584 [Report] >>64216816 >>64239246
>>64204661

Yes, high humidity is worse. Familiarize yourself with the concept of a wet-bulb temperature.

Sweating keeps body temps down because of evaporative cooling. Humidity of the air plays a huge role in how this works.

Look up a wet-bulb temp chart.

A mid 80 F temp with mid 80's relative humidity is more dangerous than a dry heat of 110 degrees.


Desert heats are generally more tolerable assuming a person had enough drinking water to keep up with their sweat loss.
Anonymous No.64216644 [Report]
>>64204661
Nothing is worse than damp heat. Your sweat doesn't evaporate, your clothes get soaked, and most dangerously you absolutely cannot effectively cool down. Now add in a jungle or thick forest where no breeze can get through, it gets really fucking bad quickly.
Anonymous No.64216816 [Report]
>>64216584
>A mid 80 F temp with mid 80's relative humidity
>played at an outdoor airsoft event that was 87 degrees with 90% humidity
>drank like 6 liters of water within 4 hours and had a salt tab at the start of that time as well
>still got heat exhaustion, had to leave early because of how dizzy i was not to mention throwing up
Fuck humidity, I can't imagine living in that shit year round in the south.
Anonymous No.64216873 [Report] >>64216878 >>64216889
>>64204315 (OP)
No. And the shit the platoon got up to during the village would have seen people doing prison time.
Anonymous No.64216878 [Report] >>64217007
>>64216873
they did dress like that and shit like that happens all the time
Anonymous No.64216889 [Report]
>>64216873
>would have seen people doing prison time.
it would have if elias wasnt fragged before the investigatIon could be held. the last scene in the movie is like a week after the village incident
Anonymous No.64216998 [Report] >>64217075
>>64216111
>heat casualties
Is bullshit and the Marines knew this. A heat casualty can be treated and returned to duty in under a hour, while fragmentation injures or worse deaths take months to recover from.
Anonymous No.64217007 [Report] >>64217229
>>64216878
>entire thread is pictures showing otherwise
>retards have only one incident throughout the entire war to go off of
/pol/yp brain at work.
Anonymous No.64217062 [Report]
>>64216136
Caveman physique. The true ol' reliable.
Anonymous No.64217071 [Report] >>64218928
>>64208705
>My grandfather served in Vietnam and he actually preferred to wear his sleeves down despite the heat specifically because he had suffered from a bout of malaria as a child that had nearly killed him and was absolutely terrified of mosquitos.
Yep. I want to shill Robert Young Pelton's podcast because he talks about malaria around 36:00 and how you need to cover up:
https://youtu.be/Y06aPfX9DWQ
Anonymous No.64217075 [Report] >>64217110
>>64216998
Why do I have this doubt you do very much during the summer that's not within eyeshot of an air conditioned building?
Anonymous No.64217110 [Report] >>64217128
>>64217075
I am a Marine you dipshit, and have worked in a steel mill and with fucking jet engines. You can withstand high temperatures if you drink water and acclimate to the local temperature.
>projection
Every time.
Anonymous No.64217128 [Report] >>64217157
>>64217110
>>projection
You wouldn't know projection if it projected on to your fucking face
Anonymous No.64217157 [Report] >>64217245
>>64217128
Seethe harder faggot.
S.I.M No.64217174 [Report]
No.64204315
yes. 'nam was hot as hell.
flak jacket and m16 and a good helmet.

armor is for rookies
get good or go home.
cover grants more protection then nam ärmorëver could. gen 2 armor was dog shit against 5.56mm
might as well be shooting naked.
Anonymous No.64217229 [Report]
>>64217007
hey buddy kill yourself

>>64205351
Anonymous No.64217245 [Report]
>>64217157
I never denied your claim of being a marine.
Anonymous No.64217260 [Report]
>>64204880
The endurance needed to maintain PT and jungleruck with 80 pounds of gear has absolutely nothing to do with bodyfat or muscle size.
Go find pictures of late 1800s coal miners.

You're an idiot, and a faggot who needs to see big muscly men to feel secure.
Anonymous No.64217274 [Report] >>64217292
>>64207487
Anonymous No.64217277 [Report] >>64218780
>>64204880
Being jacked was not the norm back in the day. This is a stoker, the guy who shovels coal into the train's steam engine all day, he's not built like today's gymrats with glamor muscles
Anonymous No.64217285 [Report]
>>64204981
Horrible person and retard but he seemed good in combat at least
Anonymous No.64217292 [Report] >>64217380
>>64217274
I might be too autistic to decode what he's feeling in that moment
Anonymous No.64217351 [Report]
>>64204880
>They all look like a bunch of goobers, all skinnyfat, no chest hair and manlets by today's standard
Because, like all soilders throughout history, they're teenagers and early 20's. That's what young men look like.
>I wonder where the roided bearded gymbro spec ops look came from
GWOT special squirrel operators being allowed to grow beards for operating operations without immediately sticking out in the middle east.
Anonymous No.64217379 [Report]
>>64205378
Vietnam. Florida.
Anonymous No.64217380 [Report] >>64217502
>>64217292
Amused but empathetic. It's the face you pull when watching someone get kicked in the nuts, or your extremely drunk friend start chatting up a fat chick.
t. Fellow autist
Anonymous No.64217414 [Report] >>64217474
>>64206569
>>64207487
>It looks like they bet he couldn't chop something blindfolded and then when he tried it they put his hat in the chop zone as a prank.
>We did shit like that.
>you bet the guy he can't hit the board with an axe while blindfolded. When he takes you up on the bet and is blindfolded, you put his hat on the board and he chops it in half. Now his cover is fucked up and everybody laughs at him.
Why would you even do that? Jesus Christ, the unrelenting horror of enlisted life.
Anonymous No.64217474 [Report] >>64217482 >>64221045
>>64217414
It gets boring as hell when you're not rucking thru the jungle.

Fuck it, I'll post a few more of his pics that aren't necessarily thread related
Anonymous No.64217482 [Report] >>64217489
>>64217474
Anonymous No.64217489 [Report] >>64217499
>>64217482
Anonymous No.64217494 [Report] >>64217506 >>64218826 >>64238897
>>64204343
I always thought that platoon was just a shitty Apocalypse Now knock off. But apparently it's mostly true stories from Oliver Stone's time in Vietnam.
Anonymous No.64217499 [Report] >>64217507
>>64217489
Anonymous No.64217502 [Report]
>>64217380
Now looking at the picture it seems so obvious. Usually I'm not that bad with that sort of thing
Anonymous No.64217506 [Report]
>>64217494
I do actually really enjoy the movie, it's a regular in my rotation of movies I'll idly have playing while I'm doing something
Anonymous No.64217507 [Report] >>64217520 >>64217522
>>64217499
Anonymous No.64217513 [Report] >>64217533
>>64207605
>No magazine???
Anonymous No.64217520 [Report]
>>64217507
I guess one of the reasons we sent M48 tanks there as opposed to M60s, was that the heavier armor and armament wasn't as necessary in Vietnam vs replacing the M48 fleet in Europe
Anonymous No.64217522 [Report] >>64217533
>>64217507
Anonymous No.64217529 [Report]
>>64208040
But I'm not cool enough
Anonymous No.64217533 [Report] >>64217554
>>64217513
I assume he was on R&R for that pic.

>>64217522
Anonymous No.64217554 [Report] >>64217572
>>64217533
Anonymous No.64217572 [Report] >>64217585
>>64217554
Anonymous No.64217585 [Report] >>64220965
>>64217572
Anonymous No.64218276 [Report]
Anonymous No.64218780 [Report] >>64218847
>>64217277
dude look at that stokers forearms and hands, the grip strength would be insane.
Anonymous No.64218826 [Report] >>64218962 >>64219627
>>64217494
fuck Apocalypse Now and it's weapon inaccuracies and speud intellectual bullshit. 3 hour borefest
Anonymous No.64218847 [Report] >>64218879 >>64220211
>>64218780
But he's not ripped. He's very normal sized. What he has are functional muscles, something gymrats don't actually have. You can't get from the gym what manual labor can give you, it just won't look as sexy
Anonymous No.64218879 [Report] >>64218913
>>64218847
No-gains faggots pretending to understand musculature is adorable. Never change, lanky retarded faggots.
Anonymous No.64218913 [Report]
>>64218879
Okay, enjoy not being able to actually lift anything irl
Anonymous No.64218928 [Report] >>64218933 >>64218994 >>64223273
>>64204327
>>64208705
>>64217071
>not just because its against regulation but because the sleeves helped keep mosquitoes from biting them

Vietnamese courtesans like Lương Thị Minh Nguyệt and Đào Thị Huệ during the Lam Sơn uprising in 1418-1427 AD used this against Han Chinese soldiers who they were seducing and sleeping with.

The Vietnamese girls convinced the Chinese to sleep in burlap gunnysacks at night and let the Vietnamese girls tie the burlap bags tightly every night, to avoid getting bitten by mosquitos.

The Chinese soldiers agreed to the femdom bondage since they were horny and let the Vietnamese girls tie them in their bags like in a BDSM session.

The Vietnamese girls served wine and food to the Chinese soldiers while singing and having sex with them.

Then one day before Vietnamese rebels attacked the outposts, the Vietnanese girls drugged the wine and then after tying the Chinese in the burlap bags they beat them with sticks and tied stones to the bags and threw them into rivers and canals to drown.
Anonymous No.64218933 [Report] >>64218994 >>64223273 >>64224903
>>64218928
>>64204766
>>64204315 (OP)
During the Trưng sisters' rebellion, the Vietnamese Trưng sisters and 36 Vietnamese female generals (ranging from 17 year old girls to 30 year olds and 40 year old women) fought against China in 40-43 AD.

Their soldiers of the female generals were mostly Vietnamese women as well.

The Vietnamese girl and women generals captured 65 cities, beheading Han Chinese generals in battle and after capturing them.

One of the Trung sisters became ruler and the 36 Vietnamese female generals were made into princesses and assigned fiefs across Vietnam.

In one battle between a Vietmamese female general and Han Chinese soldiers, the Chinese soldiers were ordered to strip naked by their general to shock the Vietnamese females.

The Vietnamese female general was Xuân Nương who was 17-20 years old dueing the war when this happened, she was wounded and her armour and bodice came off and her own breast got exposed.

The Chinese general and his soldiers stripped naked to shock her and he ordered his soldiers to grab and wrestle the Vietnamese women with their bodies.

At first she was shocked but then regained her composure and she used her sword to behead the naked Chinese general and killed and hacked the naked Chinese soldiers.

Vietnamese female general Lê Ngọc Trinh, better known as Ả Chạ took her own boudice off when her sword broke, leaving her breasts exposed, and tied her bodice around a piece of her sword or a stone and swung it as a weapon, killing Chinese soldiers with it. She was 20-23 during the war. She also beheaded a Han Chinese general (called Lưu Ứng Khâm in Vietnamese) after capturing him while he was sleeping and having him tied up.
Anonymous No.64218962 [Report]
>>64218826
>weapon inaccuracies
Which ones?
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now
Anonymous No.64218994 [Report] >>64221125 >>64223273 >>64224903
>>64218928
>>64218933
Vietnamese female general Ả Lự Minh Vương and her female soldiers ambushed a camp of drunk sleeping Chinese soldiers at night.

Since it was dark, she ordered her female soldiers to find the Chinese by groping their bodies and smelling their alcoholic breath to identify and kill them.

Vietnamese female general Thánh Thiên who was 30-33 when watching happened beheaded multiple Han Chinese generals and thousands of Han Chinese soldiers in battle.

Vietnamese female general Lê Chân beheaded 1000 Chinese generals.

She also forced Chinese generals to crawl between her legs under her crotch while she stood up with her legs spread.

There are more stories of the Vietnamese female generals and their battles that are too long to list in a single post.

Keep in mind that the Chinese fought only in north Vietnam mostly in the Red River delta region.

It's less hot than south Vietnam but north Vietnam is still a hot malaria infested land compared to China.
Anonymous No.64219232 [Report]
has chinkspammer switched to vietspamming or is this a new schizo?
Anonymous No.64219239 [Report]
>>64216111
have wandered around the tropics for a bit
there are two schools of thought even amongst the natives
one is: long sleeves help reduce bites and scratches, they're worth the discomfort from humidity
the other is: since they don't ELIMINATE bites and scratches 100%, sod it, cool down and just let the insects have at it
the halfway house is: short sleeves, long trousers. because most insect life (not all) is down on the ground
even the natives can't decide which is optimal

I opted for the halfway house
my legs and feet were often bloody as a zombie apocalypse, but it was bearable
Anonymous No.64219627 [Report]
>>64218826
Boy you sure do have bad taste in movies, not to mention a lack of patience and focus to enjoy longer films. You must be at least 18 to post here.
Anonymous No.64219661 [Report]
>>64204963
sounds exactly like my grandfather. we cousins?
Anonymous No.64219689 [Report]
>>64204617
this
hot humid is literally the worst kind of temperature environment
I'd give up my rifle and settle for a sidearm in combat for just an hour inside an air conditioned room in that soup
Anonymous No.64219698 [Report] >>64220377
>>64215825
Mostly what >>64216111 said. Another factor was after the initial operations around Da Nang, the USA and USMC split their responsibilities with the USMC going into mostly a counter insurgency role in the south while the army took over the regular combat against the NVA in the central highlands etc. Counter insurgency always has a way bigger threat profile from mines/ieds etc so it was even more important for them than for guys fighting the NVA in regular main force type engagements
Anonymous No.64219748 [Report]
>>64205517
>Not living in Florida
Anonymous No.64219751 [Report]
>>64206291
I was a power plant mechanic / BSME for 18 years worked my way up
Power generation , going inside water boxes on the condensers to plug tubes when one water box on the same unit is still in service
We would crawl out of the water box in July/August when the plant was on full load step back into the basement and freeze our asses off at the 94-100 degree basement temperature
Anonymous No.64219918 [Report]
>>64216111
>using grenades in CQB at under 30 feet with no cover, hoping the flak jacket protects your vitals and the inevitable fragments to your legs don’t hit an artery
Metal
Anonymous No.64220211 [Report] >>64220617
>>64218847
You very much can, most people just don't really care about things like grip strength
"Functional muscle" is really just a proficiency with handling awkward, oddly balanced objects It is more about knowing how and where to grip things and carry them without tripping than about strength as such
Anonymous No.64220377 [Report] >>64220857
>>64219698
>Counter insurgency always has a way bigger threat profile from mines/ieds etc so it was even more important for them than for guys fighting the NVA in regular main force type engagements
Correct me if im wrong but wont regular NVA units have by default more explosive weaponry then some viet cong unit?
>light mortars
>heavy mortars
>light artillery guns
>heavy artillery
>rpg's in every squad
>Recoilless Rifle in company or platoon sized units
>grenades out of the ass.

Sure they also have more automatic infantry weapons then the viet cong but if they are doing conventional operations then wont they also use a shit ton of mortars/explosives etc? I know the NVA loved spamming RPG-2/RPG-7 rockets in combat. Seems like it was simply an army problem where they could not enforce the wearing of flak jackets on all combat operations.
Anonymous No.64220454 [Report]
>>64205378
Everywhere within 30 degrees latitude from the equator. Basically lots of humidity that also gets hot during the day
Anonymous No.64220591 [Report]
>>64204420
imagine volunteering to fight the Japanese at pearl harbor just to be sent to fight the limey's battle for them.
Anonymous No.64220592 [Report] >>64220647
>>64215825
>What was the reasoning/context behind that?
Sergeant Majors are very irate about Jarheads losing any items that are made out of ballistic fabrics.
Anonymous No.64220617 [Report] >>64221055
>>64220211
Yeah, that's called practicality. I promise you that a mover or furniture delivery guy could kick the ass of any gym rat at anything physical outside of a gym.
Anonymous No.64220647 [Report]
>>64220592
>THAT VIRGINITY WAS NOT YOURS TO LOSE
>IT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
Anonymous No.64220857 [Report]
>>64220377
You're right that Luke the Gook loved his RPGs (well, the Chinese rpgs, forget the name) and also mortars and recoilless. I'm not saying the Army was smart not to use them at all. But with the hamlet program the Marines were a lot more static and predictable for the VC to set up ieds/booby traps than the Army, which had a pretty overwhelming maneuver advantage and rotated unpredictably through various fire bases. In general and kind of regular tube artillery was a great recipe for getting a napalm delivery by US TACAIR or just buried in counter battery. That's why outside a few cases like Khe Sahn the usual plan was to try to get into close assault where a couple of dickheads in a Phantom couldn't test the fireproof integrity of your linen uniform. So relative to previous wars the threat from tube artillery was much lower, maybe influencing the decision to be lax about it
Anonymous No.64220965 [Report]
>>64204880
Your obsession with gay porn has no bearing on what the vast majority of soldiers have looked like throughout history. Also it's hard to get big when you're out fighting and moving to the next fight. You get big by regularly lifting heavy and by eating a surplus, not by fighting and marching, all on limited supplies. I'm pretty big, if I had to go to war I imagine I'd be skinny and weak compared to how I am now within a year.

>>64217585
Thanks for all the pics anon.
Anonymous No.64220979 [Report] >>64221038 >>64225458
>>64208327
Russia was legitimately our enemy in Nam, but its pretty stupid to argue that Stone's movies are Russian propaganda. Vietnam was a brutal jungle war and Apocalypse Now does a pretty good job of conveying that.
> No one watches A.N. and leaves thinking 'Putin did the right thing by invading Ukraine'. Its a completely different era on every scale.
Anonymous No.64220995 [Report]
>>64208907
>my raw recently shaved face for four months
We should abandon this and go back to the colonial era reg of twice a week and sunday before church. Its pointless and hurts people's skin for no reason. If we are fighting in a nbc environment that is a different story, but for garrison its stupid.
Anonymous No.64221038 [Report] >>64225458
>>64220979
>A.N.
I meant Platoon
Anonymous No.64221045 [Report]
>>64217474
This sort of barbecue gets a mention in We Few, good visual representation
Anonymous No.64221055 [Report] >>64221151 >>64221154
>>64220617
Sure, but that's like saying a juggler would kick your ass at juggling
It's just experience and know-how
Anonymous No.64221125 [Report] >>64221211
>>64218994
Northern Vietnam has cold winters and moderate springs and falls (autumns)

Only in the summer does it get tropical hot.

South Vietnam is hot and sticky all year.

https://www.aquaexpeditions.com/blog/best-time-to-visit-cambodia-and-vietnam

>The winter season in northern Vietnam (December to February) experiences an average temperature of around 20 °C (68°F) but can drop up to 10 °C (50°F). On the other hand, summertime in the northern region (May to August) is hot and humid with temperatures of around 32 °C (70°F) and characterized by heavy rainfalls that persist up until mid-October.

>Spring (March to April) and autumn (September to November) are both pleasant seasons for exploring Northern Vietnam as temperatures are milder, with generally warm and sunny days, ideal for outdoor activities. During its rainy season, the central coast of Vietnam can be affected by typhoons, mainly occurring between the months of August to November.

>In the south, home to Vietnam’s most populous city, Ho Chi Minh, as well as the Mekong river delta, there are mainly two seasons: the wet season (May to October) and dry season (November to April). Meanwhile, in the country’s central region, where the historic and cultural cities of Hoi An and Hue are located, the summer dry season occurs between February and August.

https://vietnamnomad.com/wiki/vietnam-climate/

>The North experiences a humid subtropical climate with four distinct seasons: hot and humid summers from April to October, and cool, dry winters from November...

https://onyabikeadventures.com/vietnam-weather

>The Red River delta — which is the historical heart of Vietnam — has generally hot, muggy summers and cool, cloudy winters punctuated by...

https://vinpearl.com/en/geography-of-vietnam-discover-all-remarkable-landscapes-across-vietnam

>The geography of Vietnam's Red River Delta is influenced by a humid tropical monsoon climate. It has hot summers and cool winters, and...
Anonymous No.64221151 [Report]
>>64221055
Well, that and raw strength. Sorry I threatened your fitness edifice, turns out protein powder, creatine, and chicken breast isn't necessary to be /fit/
Anonymous No.64221154 [Report] >>64221220
>>64221055
Well, that and raw strength. Sorry I threatened your fitness edifice, turns out the gym, protein powder, creatine, and chicken breast isn't necessary to be /fit/
Anonymous No.64221160 [Report] >>64221193
>>64204315 (OP)
can't speak for the rest of the war, but from some of the MACV SOG stories, guys definitely dressed casually. T-shirts and whatnot. They went full slob mode because being clean would give you away in the jungle, where a bad guy might be 15 feet away behind a bush, and something like soap would give you away.
Anonymous No.64221193 [Report] >>64221719 >>64224493
>>64221160
They were like the SEALs of their day, a lotta bullshit stories for book deals.
Anonymous No.64221211 [Report]
>>64221125
https://www.britannica.com/place/Vietnam/Climate

>The northern part of Vietnam is on the edge of the tropical climatic zone. During January, the coldest month of the year, Hanoi has a mean temperature of 63 °F (17 °C), while the annual average temperature is 74 °F (23 °C). Farther south, the average annual temperature in Hue is 77 °F (25 °C) and in Ho Chi Minh City is 81 °F (27 °C); in the highland city of Da Lat, it drops to 70 °F (21 °C). The winter season in northern Vietnam lasts from November to April; from early February to the end of March there is a persistent drizzle, and March and April are sometimes considered to be a transitional period. The summer in northern Vietnam lasts from April or May to October and is characterized by heat, heavy rainfall, and occasional typhoons. In central and southern Vietnam the southwest monsoon winds between June and November bring rains and typhoons to the eastern slopes of the mountains and the lowland plains. The period between December and April is drier and is characterized by the winds of the northeast monsoon and, in the south, by high temperatures.
Anonymous No.64221220 [Report] >>64221343
>>64221154
Most gymbros far surpass the average contractor in raw strength - the difference in real world performance lies in the lack of conveniently placed ergonomic, anti-slip handles on most common objects, making moving it a matter of skill rather than strength.
Which, if you had any reading comprehension at all, you would've realized was my point from my very first post. "Gymbros are actually weak" is just cope, because unlike strength, most men don't base their masculinity on knowing where to grip a fridge
Anonymous No.64221288 [Report]
>>64206426
>>64215845
>>64216060
>>64216136
My favourite Vining photo, calves of a demigod. And a big tiddy amazon wife to boot
>>64216120
He def sure still is into mountaineering, just look at his wife man
Anonymous No.64221343 [Report]
>>64221220
I think you're just upset that you pay a lot of money to be less capable than a day laborer
Anonymous No.64221719 [Report]
>>64221193
dont see a lot of macvsog books. especially not within the first 30 years post vietnam. not fair comparison
Anonymous No.64223273 [Report] >>64228360
>>64218928
>>64218933
>>64218994

what the fuck, I'm...horny?
Anonymous No.64223570 [Report]
>>64204807
kek excellent analysis anon
Anonymous No.64224493 [Report]
>>64221193
I would definitely think Nick Brokhausen's raving about Nazi helmets and using them in ops was bullshit if there weren't pictures of him doing exactly that
Anonymous No.64224903 [Report] >>64228360 >>64230209
>>64218994
>>64218933
to be honest that all sounds like complete bullshit
>She also forced Chinese generals to crawl between her legs under her crotch while she stood up with her legs spread.
giwtwm
Anonymous No.64225458 [Report] >>64227937 >>64228103
>>64220979
>>64221038

Anon's trying too hard, but both things are true, you need to understand Oliver Stone's psyche to understand why he is the way he is

>volunteers for vietnam out of a misguided sense of patriotism
>Goes into active combat, gets fucked up in all the ways combat grunts usually do
>Can't rationalize to himself that the war was a result of colossal fuckups and ineptitude from the bottom to the top of the us government
>Starts believing in a conspiracy theory of a shadowy cabal of MIC execs that ordered Kennedy's assassination to expand the war in vietnam
>JFK was entirely about this, even though it relied on a bunch of disproven allegations even hardcore conspiracy theorists rolled their eyes at

He was easy pickings for zigger propaganda about "NATO imperialism" and the need for a multipolar society, he hangs off of Putin's every word because as he's gotten older, he's gotten more stubborn and more determined to prove his delusions are fact.
Anonymous No.64226323 [Report]
>>64206426
>>64215845
idk if its actually him
Anonymous No.64227752 [Report]
bump
Anonymous No.64227937 [Report]
>>64225458
Get help
Anonymous No.64227960 [Report] >>64228191
>>64204315 (OP)
Anonymous No.64228037 [Report]
>>64205410
I live in a tropical South American country, and this winter the humidity was high enough that I felt like I was in a drizzle while sitting in front of my computer working in my apartment. You feel wet with very thing cold water just because of the humidity,
Anonymous No.64228061 [Report]
>>64207605
Thread saved by Anon's grandfather
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Anonymous No.64228090 [Report]
Posting another picture from my folder of a grunt with the sleeves ripped off. One thing with Platoon though, is that the appearances are a bit exagerated, especially for the 1967-1968 time frame the movie is set in. This is because the movie was shot in chronological order and as it went on the cast would mess around with their outfits.

And most importantly: because its a movie, they changed the characters' outfits a bit to make them more recognizable for the audience, so they wouldn't all look uniform and somewhat like each other which is what would happen in real life. This happens in war movies more often than people think.
Anonymous No.64228103 [Report]
>>64225458
You're forgetting the crucial part: he started medicating his trauma in Vietnam with weed and when he came back to the US he started doing it with cocaine, till it became a on-and-off cocaine addiction that lasted all the way till like the mid 1990s. It's how he ended up writing Scarface.
Anonymous No.64228191 [Report]
>>64227960
nam seals used to go out in blue jeans and Maybelline black face paint.
Anonymous No.64228360 [Report] >>64229531 >>64229691 >>64230209
>>64223273
North Vietnam has dozens of temples in villages across multiple provinces dedicated to Vietnamese female generals and courtesans who fought China.

They have annual holidays and celebrations (lunar calendar) at each temple.

Each of those North Vietnamese women are said to have killed, beheaded, tied up and captured tons of Han Chinese men in wars with China for the past 2,000 years.

North Vietnam has the courtesans, 36 female generals, Lady Triệu.

South Vietnam meanwhile barely has these.

There's only 5 female generals from one place in South Vietnam, the 5 Phoenix sisters of the Tây Sơn.

They went to North Vietnam to fight against and behead Chinese and also fought and beheaded Thai in Cambodia.

They are the only South Vietnamese female generals of note.
>>64224903
>to be honest that all sounds like complete bullshit

The parts about fighting naked, or about female fighters capturing and executing Chinese troops?

Chinese histories say the Trung sisters and their army captured 65 cities in Vietnam from the Chinese garrisons in 40 AD, and controlled them for three years while fighting the war. China had to mobilise new soldiers and supplies from multiple provinces of China and send them to Vietnam in 43 AD.

Every city most likely each had a garrison of a few hundred or a few thousand Chinese troops per city, so its perfectly feasible for Vietnamese female generals to have killed and captured thousands of Chinese soldiers and generals.

The Red river delta in North Vietnam is one of the most densely populated regions of the world.

There was another Vietnamese woman named Lady Triệu who rebelled on 248 AD when she was 22 years old.

She was said to be extremely tall with big breasts. She killed the Chinese governor and multiple Chinese officials.

The Chinese general Lu Yin is said by the Vietnamese to again have ordered his soldiers to strip naked as a shock tactic against her.
Anonymous No.64229531 [Report]
>>64228360

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW0M_dn8WHE
Anonymous No.64229553 [Report]
>>64204880
Thank Schwarzenegger movies.
Anonymous No.64229691 [Report] >>64230209 >>64233221 >>64233226
>>64228360
Doesn't change the fact that this fan fiction sounds more cringe the even chang propaganda somehow
Anonymous No.64230209 [Report] >>64233221 >>64233221 >>64233226
>>64224903
>>64228360
>>64229691
North Vietnam has cool winters, its only malaria and humid during summer in low lying areas, unlike South Vietnam. North Vietnam is composed of the densely populated Red River delta. That's where most of the population lives and where the capital is, and it's majority Vietnamese Kinh (the name of the Viet ethnic group).

There are mountains north and west of the delta. The mountain provinces are less densely populated, and have many ethnic minorities.

But the mountains still have a large amount of Vietnamese Kinh especially in the provincial capitals.

The historical wars with China took place in both the lowland Red river delta and the mountains

China established citadels and forts in the Red river delta cities and villages during its rule, with Chinese soldiers surrounded by Vietnamese

The sexual desires of the Chinese soldiers played a big role in all the rebellions.

The north Vietnamese courtesans preyed on the Chinese soldiers need for sex to seize their citadels and outposts by seducing, drugging and tying them in bags.

The courtesans danced in just skirts and boudices which exposed most of their arm and leg skin.

North Vietnamese female general Lê Ngọc Trinh (Ả Chạ)'s twin sister was taken as a concubine by a Chinese official before she joined the rebellion.

Other Vietnamese female generals were sought as concubines by Chinese officials before they revolted.

The Vietnamese histories emphasise how beautiful all the female generals were and say the Chinese men were distracted by their beauty and underestimated them because they were women.

And the Chinese generals tried to capture the Vietnamese female generals alive to take as concubines instead of killing them.

Basically Chinese were constantly horny during the battles and this helped the female generals defeat them.

And they say the female generals used ambushes and tricks a lot, ambushing the Chinese when they were sleeping, luring them into traps
Anonymous No.64233221 [Report] >>64233226 >>64233256 >>64233269 >>64233305
>>64230209
>>64229691
>>64230209
Only South Vietnamese women in the Viet Cong were engaged against Americans in the Vietnam war. Americans never fought in North Vietnam so they never fought with North Vietnamese women. The only time North Vietnamese female militia interacted with Americans was in those staged photos of militia with shot down bomber pilots.

In 1978 and 1979 all the fighting between China and Vietnam took place in the border mountain provinces. However, many North Vietnamese Kinh teenage girls from the Red river delta provinces were sent to the mountain provinces to work in forestry and other activities, some of them 17 years old. They were mobilised in all female militia units along with local girls from the mountains and engaged in combat.

None of the North Vietnamese militia girls in 1979 fought against America before as I said, it's a myth that they had battle experience, only South Vietnamese girls in the Viet Cong fought America.

In 1979 neither the Chinese soldiers nor Vietnamese militia had any war experience before the war. Both of them were largely in their late teens and early twenties.

The Chinese themselves said they were horny when observing and fighting the north Vietnamese militia girls because the Chinese were also young. They said during the war, the north Vietnamese female militia took advantage of this and exposed their breasts and didn't wear underwear while taking clothes off, to lure horny Chinese into lowering their guard so they could pick up their automatic guns and shoot them.

The Chinese in border outposts said they often spied on Viet girl border guards before the war and felt horny.

In 1978 there were already some border clashes. On 1 Nov 1978, Chinese fought in hand to hand combat with Viet militia girls in Đình Phùng in Cao Bằng province with knives, sticks and stones.

Vietnamese militia girls said they killed 6 Chinese on that incident.
Anonymous No.64233226 [Report] >>64233256 >>64233269 >>64233305 >>64233390
>>64233221
>>64229691
>>64230209
In main war in 1979, North Vietnamese militia girls both defended fixed trenches for days (until forced to withdraw) and ambushed Chinese soldiers and supplies lines in guerilla warfare and did night attacks.

Their all female units were combat squads (not above platoon level), 3 to 5 girls for mobile guerilla ambushes and 8 to 9 girls defending a fixed position like a trench, cave or hill.

The Vietnamese girls acted as snipers, machine gunners and manned anti-aircraft guns converted to ground support guns.

The Chinese soldiers who survived ambushes by the girls said that if they were successful, a Vietnamese militia girl unit could wipe out a Chinese platoon (30 men) or even a company in a preprepared ambush.

Vietnamese militia girls meanwhile boast about single militia girl units killing up to 200 or 300 Chinese and capturing 2 or 7 Chinese.

Vietnam took around 37 prisoners for the main stage of the war. A few were individual Chinese stragglers who tripped and knocked unconscious on a rock and later captured by Vietnamese. Others were the Chinese survivors of platoons and companies seized by Vietnamese militia girls.

Vietnam released pictures of Vietnamese female nurses with the captured injured Chinese stragglers, claiming they were being "taken care of" "humanely" after being abandoned by their own army.

Vietnamese militia girls didn't take many prisoners for most of the war because a unit of 9 females could could not keep control of dozens of prisoners, especially while on the move.

So they had a quota, if they could capture Chinese, they would take up to 7 Chinese as POWs at a time and then execute any extra.

Eventually the Vietnamese militia girl units withdrew further south when China took the provincial border capitals

It was only after the main stage of the war ended that 202 Chinese were captured from the 448th regiment from Chengdu, Sichuan.
Anonymous No.64233256 [Report] >>64233269 >>64233314 >>64233390 >>64237476
>>64233221
>>64233226
The war was already officially over, China was withdrawing but the 448th regiment, which hadn't participated in the war, begged to be let in Vietnam so they could say they participated.

They traveled along a wrong road and were ambushed by both Vietnamese army and Vietnamese female militia units.

340 Chinese were killed and 202 surrendered, so there were 239 Chinese prisoners in total.

China had 117 Vietnamese female militia prisoners out of 1636 Vietnamese prisoners.

The Vietnamese tied the Chinese prisoners with metal wire and stuffed them into trucks to the detention camp.

Vietnamese women made up one-third of the guards at the official detention camp for Chinese prisoners (Hotel Beijing).

Several dozen Chinese were taken for torture by the Vietnamese guards. They were kicked, beaten with metal rods, rifle butts on sensitive areas, and had wounds picked with bayonets. The Chinese were also kept handcuffed in the prison.

While Vietnam released pictures of Vietnamese female nurses treating and feeding wounded Chinese prisoners, the Vietnamese also operated surgically on wounded Chinese without anesthesia or antibiotics and one died after his operation.

North Vietnamese girls made up a far larger share of combatants against China compared to South Vietnamese girls in the Viet Cong against America.

Individual Vietnamese teenage girl militia snipers and machine gunners claimed they had kill counts of 13 Chinese.

Chinese also said Vietnamese girl snipers were deadly and could kill 7 or 8 of them.

Many Chinese veterans admitted to being horny during the entire war and being distracted, some Chinese scouts were almost caught by Vietnamese girl patrol guards while admiring their looks, other Chinese as mentioned earlier said Vietnamese would deliberately not wear underwear and strip clothes off to lure and distract them so they could whip out a submachine gun and shoot them and could wipe out a whole platoon this way.
Anonymous No.64233269 [Report] >>64233285 >>64233394 >>64233402
>>64233221
>>64233226
>>64233256
The Chinese soldiers were the same age as the Vietnamese female militia, in their late teens and early twenties which is why they were so horny.

If you're wondering how a 17 year old Vietnamese militia girl could incapacitate a Chinese boy of the same age in hand to hand fighting, this is a picture of a Chinese soldier in the Sino-Vietnamese war.

He looks like a twink and has nearly no muscle tone.

A 17 year old Vietnamese girl half his height could easily wrestle him to the ground.

Being both horny and noodle armed is a major vulnerability.

China did not apply fitness standards in this war.
Anonymous No.64233285 [Report] >>64233295 >>64237238
>>64233269
Neither side had prior military experience, but the Chinese admitted the North Vietnamese militia girls were fierce fighters capable of inflicting heavy losses even with trickery and tactics like using their bodies to district.

Nouth Vietnamese girls are also lighter skinned than South Vietnamese girls and regarded as more attractive and feminine.
Anonymous No.64233286 [Report]
>>64205613
I can smell the salami and one stinky nig.
Anonymous No.64233290 [Report]
>>64205617
For fun!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t9eybY9qFfY&pp=ygUdbmFwYWxtIHN0aWNrcyB0byBraWRzIGNhZGVuY2U%3D
Anonymous No.64233295 [Report] >>64233299
>>64233285
Anonymous No.64233299 [Report] >>64233301
>>64233295
Anonymous No.64233301 [Report]
>>64233299
Anonymous No.64233305 [Report] >>64233314
>>64233221
>>64233226
Anonymous No.64233314 [Report] >>64233325
>>64233305
>>64233256
Also some of the 37 Chinese prisoners taken earlier during the war by Vietnamese militia were tortured in different ways

One Chinese was tied up and thrown in a latrine pit and he had to drink Vietnamese piss for days to survive as they pissed and shat on him.
Anonymous No.64233315 [Report]
>>64213261
Ahhh, to be the guy with the blooper!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PPDEMzkLbZM&pp=ygUUcm9hY2ggYXBvY2FseXBzZSBub3fSBwkJsgkBhyohjO8%3D
Anonymous No.64233325 [Report] >>64233329
>>64233314
All female Viet girl militia squads like these killed dozens or up to 200-300 Chinese.

If they captured a lot of Chinese, they would chose up to 6 or 7 Chinese as prisoners maximum and execute the rest on the field since a single girl squad couldn't handle guarding that many prisoners.

Vietnamese female generals before the modern era would do the same, they would personally behead Chinese prisoners after their soldiers captured them in battle and tied them up.

The Viet female generals would smear the blood of the Chinese onto their flags and display their heads as trophies.
Anonymous No.64233327 [Report]
obligatory
Anonymous No.64233329 [Report] >>64233331 >>64233334
>>64233325
Anonymous No.64233331 [Report] >>64233339
>>64233329
Anonymous No.64233334 [Report] >>64233341
>>64233329
She has a nice mouth.
Anonymous No.64233339 [Report] >>64233341
>>64233331
South Vietnamese women are seen as less feminine, less attractive, and less skilled at war than North Vietnamese women.

America only fought South Vietnamese women in the Viet Cong and never fought North Vietnamese women militia.

If America had invaded North Vietnam, the entire battle experience and the climate would be different.
Anonymous No.64233341 [Report] >>64233346 >>64233348 >>64237265
>>64233334
She's North Vietnamese from Hanoi in the Red river delta. She never fought the Americans.

If she volunteered to do forestry at the northern provinces like other Red river delta girls then she could have fought the Chinese.

>>64233339
Anonymous No.64233346 [Report] >>64233359
>>64233341
Anonymous No.64233348 [Report] >>64233380
>>64233341
I like a little fight in them.
Anonymous No.64233359 [Report] >>64233380 >>64237280
>>64233346
All female North Vietnamese teenage militia girl unit fighting the Chinese in a trench.

These girls were from the Red river delta provinces but were doing forestry work in the border provinces with China.

They inflicted heavy losses on the Chinese.

The Chinese soldiers would often use their scopes to observe Vietnamese girl border guards before the war.
Anonymous No.64233380 [Report] >>64237266
>>64233359

>>64233348
Yes, she most like fought Chinese in 1979

North Vietnam never sent its female militia to the South.

All the Viet Cong females were local South Vietnamese girls who are browner and more manly.

Chinese soldiers got to experience the fighting skills of North Vietnamese militia girls first hand.
Anonymous No.64233390 [Report] >>64233394
>>64233226
>>64233256
Vietnamese nurse with Chinese prisoner.
Anonymous No.64233394 [Report] >>64233398
>>64233269
>>64233390

Pictures of Chinese prisoners in the war.
Anonymous No.64233398 [Report] >>64233402 >>64237289
>>64233394
Vietnamese militia girls with Chinese prisoners after they wiped out the rest of the Chinese unit.
Anonymous No.64233402 [Report] >>64233409 >>64237463
>>64233269
>>64233398
The Chinese men's hands were tied behind their backs by the Viet militia girls

The Chinese in front has just flabby muscle
Anonymous No.64233408 [Report]
>>64213251
My father was on a carrier back in Korea. Mr Dirty got a scrubbing with deckbrooms.
Anonymous No.64233409 [Report] >>64236596 >>64237463
>>64233402
Viet militia girls with bayonets tipped rifles and Chinese men with their hands tied.

Once a Chinese unit surrendered to the Viet militia girls, their hands were tied right away.

The Viet girls would then execute extra prisoners above their quota, if there were more than 7, 8 or 9 at most.
Anonymous No.64236596 [Report] >>64236605 >>64237273 >>64237289 >>64237436 >>64237463
>>64233409
Pictute of a Chinese soldier caught by North Vietnamese militia girls and tied up at bayonet point.

Also South Vietnamese militia girls in the Viet Cong never captured or wiped out entire units of American army or marine soldiers in the battlefield.

Sniper Carlos Hathcock claims he shot a South Vietnamese Viet Cong woman nicknamed Apache who tortured tied up US soldiers to death, but was accused by everyone of making it up, and he couldn't even give the names of the alleged US soldiers who were tortured to death because they most likely didn't exist.

The only time US military personnel saw North Vietnamese militia girls was when shot down pilots over North Vietnam were set up for the staged pictures of militia pointing guns at the pilots.

There's no pictures of Viet Cong girls holding US troops captive (they would have taken pictures and released the photos if they did).

So its safe to say no American soldier actually got captured by Vietnamese female fighters in combat.

A few American army soldiers were captured by male NVA and Viet Cong troops on the ground, and the rest of the American POWs were pilots that got shot down when bombing North Vietnam.

North Vietnamese militia girls wiped out Chinese platoons and companies and captured and tied up Chinese alive. They released the names of their Chinese prisoners, their units and hometowns.

Chinese soldiers who survived fighting them corroborate the accounts of the North Vietnamese militia girls.
Anonymous No.64236605 [Report] >>64236949
>>64236596
Chinese boys and men captured by Vietnamese militia girls.
Anonymous No.64236949 [Report] >>64236978
>>64236605
North Vietnamese female snipers training during the war with China.
Anonymous No.64236978 [Report] >>64237268
>>64236949
Viet female militia in 1979.

Vietnam mobilised all North Vietnamese women ages 18 to 35 in 1979 in all female militia units in case China invaded Hanoi.

It already had 17 year old girls in militias fighting Chinese while doing forestry work.
Anonymous No.64237238 [Report]
>>64233285
You are clearly a rice dick commie faggot from the north
Anonymous No.64237265 [Report]
>>64233341
>She's North Vietnamese
That explains why she looks retarded
Anonymous No.64237266 [Report]
>>64233380
> Downy face
Big yikes
Anonymous No.64237268 [Report]
>>64236978
North Viet female militia in 1979.

Would North Vietnamese militia girls maul Americans badly like they did to the Chinese, if America invaded North Vietnam?

North Vietnam's climate, terrain, population distribution and fighting abilities are different from the South and Viet Cong.

Many North Vietnamese militia girls were bored during the American war, they didn't get to fight since America never invaded the North.

They deliberately volunteered for forestry work on the border provinces with China in 1978 and said they had fun in 1979 hunting Chinese guys.

Could they incapacitate American men in hand to hand combat?
Anonymous No.64237273 [Report] >>64237289 >>64237303 >>64237307 >>64237322 >>64237331
>>64236596
>accused by everyone of making it up
Got a source to back up those claims?
Anonymous No.64237280 [Report] >>64237289
>>64233359
All female Vietnamese teenage girl militia unit (ages 16-17) made out of schoolgirl volunteers from Hà Nam Ninh (Nam Định) who went to the border with China to work at State Forest Enterprises in Mường Khương district, Hoàng Liên Sơn province (now Lào Cai).

These Vietnamese teenage militia girls nflicted heavy casualties on Chinese teenage boys and young men and captured them.


Note neither the Vietnamese militia teenage girls and young women nor the Chinese teenage boys and young men had battle experience before..

The Vietnamese girls who fought Chinese were north Vietnamese, and most only came of fighting age in 1978-1979

Most north Vietnamese girls did not see ground action during the Vietnam war with the US. They manned anti aircraft batteries but there was no ground fighting in the north.

It was South Vietnamese Communists in the Viet Cong in South Vietnam along with NVA that fought in the American Vietnam war.

Most Chinese boys and men in the Sino-Vietnamese war only came of age in 1979 too, almost none of them fought in earlier wars in the Korean war or with India in 1962.

Much of the Sino-Vietnamese war was mostly school or university age green recruits, Chinese teenage boys and young men versus Vietnamese teenage girls and young women, some as young as 16 or 17.

Vietnamese girls still managed to defeat the Chinese males, in both hand to hand melee combat, regular fighting with guns and capture them.

The Sino-Vietnamese war broke out in 1979, but there were already border clashes in 1978 with melee weapons (no guns). Vietnamese militia girls also particpated in the hand to hand combat in the 1978 clashes with kicking and punching, wrestling, knives, iron bars, sticks

Vietnamese militia girls managed to defeat and inflict heavy casualties on Chinese males in these clashes.

Average Chinese male was taller than Vietnamese females, but not stronger.
Anonymous No.64237289 [Report] >>64237290
>>64237273
Source in image and the literal pictures here >>64236596 >64233409 >>64233398 >64233390
Vietnamese girl sniper Hà Thị Thức hunted 13 Chinese men and teenage boys during the war against China in 1979, in Nậm Chảy commune, Mường Khương district, in Hoàng Liên Sơn (now Lào Cai province, Vietnam) She was part of a unit of Vietnamese girls, two others of which were Kiều and Mai and fought with her against the Chinese.

She was from the Red River delta from Ý Yên in Hà Nam Ninh (Nam Định) and went to the northern border to Hoàng Liên Sơn (now Lào Cai province) to work at a state forestry enterprise.

Many north Vietnamese teenage schoolgirls (16, 17, 18, 19 years old), from the inner Red River delta cities and provinces like Hà Nam Ninh (Nam Định), Haiphong (Hải Phòng) and Hanoi (Hà Nội) were sent to the border provinces with China like Hoàng Liên Sơn province (now Lào Cai) and fought Chinese from 1978-1991 like the girls at >>64237280

They worked at forestry enterprises and logistics and formed all female militia units during the war.

Even though Chinese never reached the Red River delta provinces and cities like Hanoi, the north Vietnamese girls from the Red River delta went to the border provinces to fight in Cao Bằng, Tuyên Quang, Lạng Sơn, Quảng Ninh, Lai Châu, Hoàng Liên Sơn provinces (now Lào Cai).
Anonymous No.64237290 [Report] >>64237294
>>64237289
Vietnamese militia girl Tạ Thị Mai was from the same province as Hà Thị Thức and she went into the same all female militia girl unit.

She was also from the Red River delta from Ý Yên in Hà Nam Ninh (Nam Định) and went to the northern border to Nậm Chảy commune, Mường Khương district, Hoàng Liên Sơn (now Lào Cai province) to work at a state forestry enterprise.

She also hunted dozens of Chinese boys and men.

The same schoolgirls from the same village went into the same all female militia units.
Anonymous No.64237294 [Report]
>>64237290
The war had high school and university age Vietnanese girls and Chinese boys with no war experience fighting each other.

The north Vietnamese girls from the flat Red river delta provinces were not locals in the mountainous border provinces but local girls also served in the same militia units and helped guide them in the terrain.

Northern Viet high school girls managed to destroy and capture entire Chinese units.
Anonymous No.64237303 [Report] >>64237307
You meant a source for Hathcock?

>>64237273
In dramatised versions of Hathcock's life story, published by Charles Henderson, Apache is described as torturing captured US soldiers within earshot of their comrades. However, academics studying the Vietnam war consider these accounts to be untrue.[4][5] Hathcock's narrative suggests he shot Apache from a distance, working with Jim Land as a spotter.[3]

Historical perspectives
Jerry Lembcke views the story as a legend.[4] He points out that, although women served in various capacities in the North Vietnamese military and the Viet Cong, there is very little evidence of women in front line combat roles during the Vietnam war, much less in positions of command. He also states that stories of Apache's alleged treatment of US prisoners of war are a distortion of the historical record, serving to dehumanise the Vietnamese for atrocities for which no evidence exists. He concludes by stating that characters such as Apache are "more likely found in the comic books than history books".[4]

Lembcke also draws attention to the parallel between Henderson's lurid description of Apache's torture of an American marine, in which she spits betel juice in his face, and the urban legend of women spitting on returning Vietnam vets.[4] He expands on this by suggesting that US popular culture's focus on female Vietnamese fighters forms part of a feminisation of the Vietnamese enemy and that this has become a key component in popular media and the American collective memory of Vietnam.[4] According to Lembcke, Apache is a fantasy springing from the psychology of defeat, in which an emasculating woman warrior symbolises the blow to male pride, sexual prowess and status associated with military failure.[7]
Anonymous No.64237307 [Report]
>>64237273
>>64237303
Ugo Fracassa considers Henderson's recounting of Hathcock's narrative to be sexualised, given its focus on Apache's physical appearance which he views as displaying an attraction combined with repulsion. He also considers the narrative to contain aspects of voyeurism, in view of its description of Hathcock and another US Marine spying on her while she urinated. He views Hathcock's account of Apache's cruelty, involving sexualised violence against men, to be an inverted representation of the reality of American rapes and sexual violence against local women.[5]
Anonymous No.64237322 [Report] >>64237331
You meant a source for Hathcock?

>>64237273
>In dramatised versions of Hathcock's life story, published by Charles Henderson, Apache is described as torturing captured US soldiers within earshot of their comrades. However, academics studying the Vietnam war consider these accounts to be untrue.[4][5] Hathcock's narrative suggests he shot Apache from a distance, working with Jim Land as a spotter.[3]

>Historical perspectives
>Jerry Lembcke views the story as a legend.[4] He points out that, although women served in various capacities in the North Vietnamese military and the Viet Cong, there is very little evidence of women in front line combat roles during the Vietnam war, much less in positions of command. He also states that stories of Apache's alleged treatment of US prisoners of war are a distortion of the historical record, serving to dehumanise the Vietnamese for atrocities for which no evidence exists. He concludes by stating that characters such as Apache are "more likely found in the comic books than history books".[4]

>Lembcke also draws attention to the parallel between Henderson's lurid description of Apache's torture of an American marine, in which she spits betel juice in his face, and the urban legend of women spitting on returning Vietnam vets.[4] He expands on this by suggesting that US popular culture's focus on female Vietnamese fighters forms part of a feminisation of the Vietnamese enemy and that this has become a key component in popular media and the American collective memory of Vietnam.[4] According to Lembcke, Apache is a fantasy springing from the psychology of defeat, in which an emasculating woman warrior symbolises the blow to male pride, sexual prowess and status associated with military failure.[7]
Anonymous No.64237331 [Report]
>>64237273
>>64237322
>Ugo Fracassa considers Henderson's recounting of Hathcock's narrative to be sexualised, given its focus on Apache's physical appearance which he views as displaying an attraction combined with repulsion. He also considers the narrative to contain aspects of voyeurism, in view of its description of Hathcock and another US Marine spying on her while she urinated. He views Hathcock's account of Apache's cruelty, involving sexualised violence against men, to be an inverted representation of the reality of American rapes and sexual violence against local women.[5]

There were way more North Viet female militia fighting China in 1979 than South Viet female Viet Cong, by percentage and number.

North Vietnamese female militia with submachine guns like this could wipe out Chinese platoons and companies.
Anonymous No.64237346 [Report]
Why is this faggot spamming the thread with this off topic propaganda?
This site sucks now
Anonymous No.64237436 [Report] >>64237463
Vietnamese girl militia with an assault rifle and bayonet displays a tied up Chinese army scout spy with an erection. The Chinese man's entire arms were roped and tied by Vietnamese women and his wrists tied as well.
>>64236596
The same Chinese man being forced to march to the POW jail by two Vietnamese militia girls. The girl on the right in the white shirt is the same women in the first photo, with rifle and bayonet.

The Chinese man's arms, chest and wrists were tied by the Vietnamese girls with rope and he is forced to bow down while walking.

Vietnamese militia kept their Chinese prisoners hands and arms bound like this the entire time for weeks, and they had to eat food like dogs without their hands.
Anonymous No.64237463 [Report] >>64237476
>>64237436
Vietnamese militia women escorting a Chinese man with his hands tied behind his back.

Even though the Chinese males in all these pictures >>64236596 >>64233409 >>64233402 are taller than the Viet girls (wearing hats or pith helmets and holding guns), they got beaten and their hands tied up by the shorter Viet girls.

They didn't dare try to escape.
Anonymous No.64237476 [Report] >>64237487
>>64237463
>>64233256
This militia girl unit from Minh Tâm helped the Vietnamese army ambush the Chinese 448th regiment after the main phase of the war ended.

202 Chinese were captured and 340 killed.

The Chinese captives were bound with metal wire.
Anonymous No.64237487 [Report] >>64237496
>>64237476
Viet militia girls at trenches in the battle of Móng Cái who infected several hundred casualties on Chinese.
Anonymous No.64237496 [Report] >>64237551
>>64237487
Viet militia girls used converted anti aircraft guns to defend hills.

One hill would ambush the Chinese and another hill would provide cover for them.
Anonymous No.64237551 [Report] >>64237557
>>64237496
One of the members of the Vietnamese Tân An girl squad here was Đinh Thị Huyền, a kindergarten teacher (cô giáo mẫu giáo chiến sĩ tự vệ) and she was ethnic Vietnamese Kinh from the majority ethnicity in Vietnam. She is the first person on the right. (người thứ nhất bên phải) And she is wearing a pith helmet.

Lương Thị Ty was the youngest in the girl squad at 17 and an ethnic Kinh Vietnamese, the majority ethnicity in Vietnam. She was still studying in school and volunteered for the squad since she was not on the militia list.

These 9 girls and women killed 200-300 Chinese males and captured 2 Chinese males alive with 50 guns. They used automatic rifles, machine guns and pistols.

Most of the girls were 17, 18, 19 with some women in their twenties and thirties.


The Vietnamese Tân An girl squad defended their trenches in the Trùng Khánh and Trà Lĩnh districts of Cao Bằng province after the Chinese attacked ln 17th February 1979 with artillery. Chinese soldiers charged them on 19 February. The girl squard resisted waves of attacks for four days and killed hundreds. They decided to withdraw from their positions in the district after that and took 2 Chinese soldiers alive as prisoners and withdrew.

Chinese prisoners claim the reason for this was that there was a quota on the number of prisoners at this stage in the war and Vietnamese militias killed extra wounded Chinese prisoners.
Anonymous No.64237557 [Report] >>64237561
>>64237551
Vietnamese girl squad that fought the Chinese.
Anonymous No.64237561 [Report] >>64237578
>>64237557
Anonymous No.64237578 [Report] >>64237647
>>64237561
Anonymous No.64237647 [Report] >>64237652
>>64237578
Vietnamese female militia who fought in the war against China participate in a rally held by the Mayor of Hanoi outside of Hanoi's Civic Center on 19 March 1979. Chinese prisoners were displayed at the rally.
Anonymous No.64237652 [Report] >>64237656
>>64237647
Vietnamese female militia girls on 23 February 23 1979 during the war against China.
Anonymous No.64237656 [Report] >>64237663
>>64237652
Vietnamese militia girls at an anti-China rally in Hanoi, 24 July 1978 before the war against China in 1979. The government mobilized Vietnamese women to participate in the upcoming war.
Anonymous No.64237663 [Report] >>64237671
>>64237656
Anonymous No.64237671 [Report] >>64237679
>>64237663
Vietnamese female militia made out of women and teenage girls who had fought against the Chinese in 1979. This is from 31 March 1979 after the 1979 war and before the border conflict which happened in the 1980s.
Anonymous No.64237679 [Report] >>64238507
>>64237671
Anonymous No.64238507 [Report]
>>64237679
Anonymous No.64238897 [Report] >>64242119
>>64217494
>Oliver Stone
>true stories
Go back to thinking what you thought before.
Anonymous No.64239208 [Report]
>>64205265
Yes I have seen this happen
Anonymous No.64239246 [Report]
>>64216584
Ah this chart explains why corn sweat month is so painfull
Anonymous No.64242109 [Report]
>>64204315 (OP)
They dressed like Forest Gump
Anonymous No.64242119 [Report] >>64243274
>>64238897
you are an idiot retard
Anonymous No.64242122 [Report]
>>>/wsg/5965049
Anonymous No.64242248 [Report]
>>64204315 (OP)
You're out in the middle of the jungle with a bunch of teenagers who don't want to be there, there's 20 of them and one of you, and they have grenades. You can try being a petty little bitch if you want.
Anonymous No.64242254 [Report]
>>64204420
>per capita eludes him
How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?
Does your apartment chirp?
Anonymous No.64242259 [Report]
>>64204935
THEY DRAFT THE WHITE TRASH FIRST ROUND HERE ANYWAY
Anonymous No.64243274 [Report]
>>64242119
That cocksucker sold out to Russia and peddles objectively false narratives for anti-American propaganda purposes. If a man is a liar now, that usually means he was a liar always.