Comments by "The Looinrims" (@looinrims) on "US Foreign Wars (1950-2019) – Fighting the Last War" video.

There’s so many other factors, considering the 15+ year conflict, especially the completely forgotten part that the US sent third rate troops to vietnam
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@oliverb.8995 oh but it did, which makes sense, would be pretty dumb to send first rate troops to a backwater and not, you know, Germany or Korea…
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@Hillbilly001 …isn’t that just supporting what I said? We sent third rate troops, troops that weren’t able to handle the tasks provided, among other things like pulling ‘pogs’ in effect into infantry duties, which the official history of the USMC was harshly critical of, but I mean, how am I full of shit? You just seem to be providing examples of what my basic point was
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@belluh-1huey102 definitely
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@Hillbilly001 then I guess every historian in human history is full of shit, and of course the classic quote: “you cannot write history in the trenches.” Also no, third rate doesn’t mean militia, third rate means third rate, ie ‘of inferior or very poor quality.’ If you tell me barely trained men that lot of times came out of the admin companies and shit given infantry duties were not of inferior or poor quality as infantry (the most important part of the war on the ground in Vietnam) then you’re just denying reality at that point No, I’m not full of shit, hence the logic and citations, whereas you are just appealing to authority ‘they were there so they know everything’ I find it hard to believe a NCO from a war where it was standard practice to rotate after a year is familiar from DC-Firebase in every level in 1978 Sorry guy, that’s not an argument
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@Hillbilly001 what difference? What relevance is this entire comment? It’s literally the definition of an irrelevant anecdote
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@Hillbilly001 irrelevant
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