Category Archives: Viet Nam

Afghanistan: Death by politics

The death of an American soldier due to our Medevac policy:

“Specialist Chazray Clark was dying due to politics, and the Army and Air Force pilots are very angry about this.  Chazray’s is not the only such case…It is important to be absolutely clear–this is not about the Dustoff pilots and crews, who are incredibly courageous.

“They have earned enormous respect.  They’ll fly into hell to get one of our wounded troopers.  This is about politics getting in the way of saving lives…The General in charge of this fiasco needs to be fired.”

More from embedded correspondent Michael Yon.

Obamalot could remedy this with a phone call, and damn well better.

Unarmed Medevacs arriving late

Incredible report from Afghanistan correspondent Michael Yon that our Army Medevacs are delayed in getting to their patients (find it in the first four minutes of this Glenn Reynolds interview with Yon).

Delayed, that is, because they have to wait for Apache gunship escorts. Not because the landing zones are especially hot but because the Medevacs wear Red Crosses and the Geneva Convention doesn’t allow them to carry defensive guns.

Jeeze, Louise. All our Medevacs in I Corps in Viet Nam in 1969 wore Red Crosses and always carried door guns. The enemy there had no more respect for Red Crosses than the Taliban does now. So much for progress, eh? Visit Michael’s web site and consider helping defray his expenses so he can continue to tell these stories that are NOT being told elsewhere. I do and have for years now.

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Nguyen Thanh Hang: Rule 5

Ngoc Trinh: Rule 5

Why so many Viet Nam Rule 5s? Like Mount Everest, because they’re there. And this gal is Miss Viet Nam International for 2011. And there are many more where she came from. Boy, those communists sure know to live, eh?

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My Xuan: Rule 5

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Le Hoang Bao Tran: Rule 5

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Bảo Trân: Rule 5