Comments on: Ask MHQ: North Vietnamese Perspective on the Tet Offensive http://www.historynet.com/ask-mhq-north-vietnamese-perspective-on-the-tet-offensive.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:25:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: chelsea http://www.historynet.com/ask-mhq-north-vietnamese-perspective-on-the-tet-offensive.htm#comment-525741 chelsea Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:13:03 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681347#comment-525741 why were the vietnames able to catch the americans off guard? why were the vietnames able to catch the americans off guard?

]]> By: Richard B Scott http://www.historynet.com/ask-mhq-north-vietnamese-perspective-on-the-tet-offensive.htm#comment-159396 Richard B Scott Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:58:05 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681347#comment-159396 Great article. I was there, on the ground and experienced the TET Offensive. I had 65+troops and we weathered the storm with only minimal casualties. Obviously we had no business there to begin with. I was a 22 yr old E-6 with a tremendous amount of responsibility but we prevailed. I learned right away the average So Vietnamese could care less, if we had a Red Star they would have gladly accepted our $$. We took care of a whole village with food and materials for months and then accidentally discovered a maze of tunnels leading to our camp that would have been used for their attack. Our bulldozers leveled the camp, destroyed the tunnels and the entire village people became POW's. Unfortunately, the powers that have not learned by past mistakes and are repeating in Iraq and Afghanistan the same. Whatever Sect is going to rule and dictate whatever we do. A no win situation. RB Scott CWO4, CEC, USN (ret) Great article. I was there, on the ground and experienced the TET Offensive. I had 65+troops and we weathered the storm with only minimal casualties. Obviously we had no business there to begin with. I was a 22 yr old E-6 with a tremendous amount of responsibility but we prevailed. I learned right away the average So Vietnamese could care less, if we had a Red Star they would have gladly accepted our $$. We took care of a whole village with food and materials for months and then accidentally discovered a maze of tunnels leading to our camp that would have been used for their attack. Our bulldozers leveled the camp, destroyed the tunnels and the entire village people became POW's. Unfortunately, the powers that have not learned by past mistakes and are repeating in Iraq and Afghanistan the same. Whatever Sect is going to rule and dictate whatever we do. A no win situation.

RB Scott CWO4, CEC, USN (ret)

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