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McNamara's Boys: Lost Innocence in Vietnam

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Fatality Rate of Marines in Vietnam

The fatality rate of men for macnamara's programme was three times higher than that of ordinary g is hamilton gregory tells a story of one of these men killed in combat while serving as battalion commander in viet nam. A veteran named william s tuttle observed, if you take someone with an e cue of forty and give him a rifle, he's more dangerous to you than he is to the enemy. As lieutenant colonel john gosse observed, project 100 thousand was a disaster for those who actually had to serve with and supervise these soldiers. The way that these guys treated during their time in the military varied wildly. Some were targets of hatred and anger

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