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Don't Think, Stop Thinking
My soldiers from the 9th Division hated the South Vietnamese soldiers more than they did the Viet Cong. They saw them going out on operations and not beating the enemy, but avoiding the enemy. My battalion could go all the way through the same area and come back bloodied and battered. It's also about bad leadership. Lieutenant Callie had gone through three separate courses, was found wanting in leadership in two of them and had been recycled instead of being booted out. The military was into a numbers game and didn't want to have a high attrition rate for their officers. So here's a guy who never should have been trusted more than an army PFC ends up a lieutenant. And I think