... quickly disintegrated in the hot and humid jungle climates. An M60; a general purpose machinegun that was light enough to be carried on patrol but proved deadly in a firefight, and/or an M16 which fired .223 caliber bullets at a rate of 750-900 rounds per minute on an automatic setting. A ... on Thailand and Guam. The navy developed special riverine task force. To stop arms transportation the Mark 1 PBR was sent out to seek and destroy weapons convoys. The PBR packed a powerful punch sinking many larger ships and traveled at a whopping 28.5 knots (Bernard 101) The United States strategy ...

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... is that there were many human rights were violated As many innocent civilians lives were brutally taken by the hands of U.S soldiers and by the use of extremely powerful chemical weapons that were used in Vietnam against international law such as the Geneva contract. But before I continue with this point I must say that I understand that our soldiers were fighting a war, which ... its victims. Napalm was even weaponized into flamethrowers and air bombs making them much more powerful and gruesome. Now imagine innocent civilians including women and children being hit with this deadly subs...

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... do for your country" (qtd. in Caputo xiv). The proud young military men believed that the Viet Cong could be swiftly conquered only to come to awareness these guerrillas were a deadly, persistent enemy who were willing to sustain continual casualties, while the U.S. government became just as responsible for inflicting tremendous casualties physically and morally during the war. Young American men went ... in the afternoon. The men could not look anywhere without seeing dust, whirling dust inside tents, thick dust that stuck to everything it came into contact with, such as skin, weapons,...

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