Susch were the times I suppose when really it was not the troops fault by and large but the poor management but politicians are masters at avoiding blame aren't they.
From what I understand the areas under South Korean ROK control had the least troubles mainly because the ROK had very convinced ways of getting the enemy to speak.A guy that lives near me was a dog handler for the Army and he got assigned to an ROK unit they also had him use the raido when they where talking to US forces because the Koreans spoke poor English.
He told me about a time on patrol another ROK unit got attacked by a poorly set up ambush and the VC split.The unit he was with gathered up several obvious VC who had forced this village to let them hide but they where obviusly better feed than the locals and did not have hardened hands from farming.So the ROK officer took all the VC out of the village he did not infrom them that someone had already ratted them out.All he wanted was for them to admit that they where VC but they where tight lipped.So the officer simply walked up to one and shot the guy in knee with his .45 and they started singing then.Another tactic was for the ROK troops to practice TaeKwondo on silent ones.That is pretty light compared to what the NVA VC did.
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