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To: Thomas M. who wrote (16073)	7/1/2004 5:03:55 AM
From: lbs1989	Read Replies (5) of 110194

Dear Tom, In October of 1968 I was selling Packaged Soaps and Detergents for P&G when I received an invitation from Uncle Sugar to join the Army or the service of my choice in 30 days. I decided that if I had to go to Viet Nam and fight I might as well go with the "best" so I joined the Marines. Since I was a college boy I went to Quantico Va. to become an infantry officer.The Basic School had 4 phases of TRAINING. Phase 1, Squad Tactics: Phase 2, Platoon Tactics: Phase 3, Company Tactics: Phase 4, Viet Nam. We all knew we were just going over to practice what we had just learned and there was NO shortage of volunteers! Every 2nd Louie at the Basic School knew that in order to win we needed to invade the north. We needed to take the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Marine Divisions out of I Corps in northern South Viet Nam, load them on our Amphibious Ships and land north of Haiphong. While floating north, bomb the hell out of Hanoi and Haiphong and mine the harbor. The NVA, who where very good soldiers would have had to come north out of South Viet Nam to fight us. They would have had to use the same kind of tactics they used during Tet and that they used in Hue City. Massing their troops to fight a conventional battle with us would have been a disaster for them as it was during Tet. Tet was a political victory not a military one. They never tried it again. Why didn't we go north as all the 2nd Louie's recommended? We were afraid of the Chinese coming down south ala Korea, so we jerked around for years hoping the ARVN would fight as well as the NVA. They could handle the VC ,but the NVA were another story. Win the war? We could have won it but we never declared it!! Congress was left out yet again. We beat the Japs in the Pacific in 3 years and 7 months after Pearl Harbor. Please don't tell me we couldn't beat 17 million North Vietnamese with no navy or air force in less time. We had the men and the technology. We had neither the will nor a coherent strategy nor did we have a constitutional mandate from the citizens of the USA. Semper Fi,

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