MILITARY TRAINING NOW STRESSING ATTACKS ON PATRIOTISM OF VIETNAM VETS
TURNING VET AGAINST VET, TURNING TROOPS INTO "AIRPORT SPITTERS"
By Gordon Duff, Staff Writer
The stories are starting to come in, Marine DI’s now telling their recruits that Vietnam was a time of shame for the Marine Corps. We "lost the war" or were all "whiners" and well below the standards of the Corps.
These stories have worked they way onto the discussion boards at military dot com and other sites. Mixed in with them are racist comments and the clear sounds of people I hope really aren’t Marines or in our military at all. However, I am afraid these morons may actually be "the real thing."
Years of being patted on the back, having civilians clean up after them, cook their meals, hell, in some bases there are 5 civilian workers for every serviceman, have taken that "edge" away. I hope this isn’t the case, but we get little or no information other than the suicide lists and the military’s reports of prime rib dinners, internet, air conditioning and video games.
Those of us who fought in Vietnam, and there are more than a few of us here at VT and in our regular readers, know that what we went thru would be unimaginable for the troops today. Starved, outnumbered and sleeping on the bare ground for months at a time is probably not the drill today’s young heroes are living with. If we have to hire hundreds of thousands of kitchen workers and cleaning personnel or high priced guards to keep them safe at night, snug and secure, after all, they are our kids.
Many have died, many have suffered and though nothing in comparison to Vietnam vets, nothing even remotely close, we still feel for them and stand by them. We also want to know they are standing by us and standing with us. This isn’t so clear. The way you can prove you are a total idiot to me is to listen to childish anti-vet lies spread by REMF weenies whose war experience, by Vietnam standards, is a total joke.
I grew up surrounded by World War 2 veterans. I knew what they had done and I knew my place. I learned respect. That respect defined us. The disrespect being taught now can also define our new military and define them as something in need of correction, correction and maybe a bit more.
A small detachment of Marines, in the matter of a couple dozen months lost nearly 4 times the men our entire military has lost in our "war on terror." There are Army units, like the 101st and others than lost 4 thousand killed in action or more. The idea that we are, again, being used as a "bad example" to cover the ineptitude and incompetence of defense policies that have allowed a breakdown of morale, massive waste and the humiliating embarassment of sexual crimes against detainees is not going to be allowed.
Underestimating our ability to monitor these training methods and the lies and attacks on Vietnam veterans is a serious mistake. Any training command involved in this type of activity needs to know that the idiots who believe it are posting these stories all over the internet.
Any NCO or even officer who thinks that we are the harmless group of druggies and losers that will sit around quietly, taking this kind of crap, is going to get a rude awakening.
Few units in World War 2 spent anywhere near the time on the line Vietnam veterans did. However, the exploits of our troops in previous wars was both respected and inspiring to all of us. We Vietnam vets expect the same. We quietly watch a military paid many times what we got, living under conditions we would have died for and using equipment we would have never imagined, do, what we hope, is their best.
RIGHT: Looking for my missing laptop, Vietnam 1969, Gordon Duff
We are glad they have body armour and we wish they had better armour earlier. We wish their Humvees were uparmoured earlier. We are the ones who pushed for these things and fought the crooks at the DOD when troops got short changed.
Now I am seeing what may be an ignorant few, I hope no more than that, turn on heroes whose sacrifice they can never imagine. I hope they never have to really know what we went thru. This is some of what we fought for.
However, we are not going to be run into the ground, not by them, not by anyone. We are far from compliant and institutionalized old men. Underestimating us is a mistake.
Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.
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