Since he was a Marine, he served in I Corps. There aren't any "deltas" there. And I sincerely doubt that that Darne was carried by any VC (South Vietnamese Communist Party member - who still took his orders from the North Vietnamese Politburo). It may have been carried - likely was since someone, possibly a French planter - there were still French planters there at the Mewall rubber plantation N. of Ban Me Thout in 1966 - must have used it for hunting....but it wasn't involved in the war. Ted, the sentence you quote has every appearance of hype.
50th anniversary of Tet is here and the media will be out in force - I'm going to hate this because there will be junk and balderdash....often pink tinged and full of ill-disguised contempt for our soldiers ...published by the volume and it will just antagonize us again...because that North Vietnames offensive effort destroyed the VC main force units in III and IV Coups...the southern communist cadres never again played a significant part in the war and what was left was finished off by Phoenix.
Last edited by Argo44; 01/28/18 08:21 PM.
