Bravo! The Project

[douglas9]

Synopsis for Bravo! the Movie

The story of Bravo Company, First Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment is a tale of young men, untested, mostly new to Vietnam, who were trapped in one of the worst sieges in the history of American warfare. The siege of Khe Sanh was one of the salient conflicts of the American experience in the Vietnam War, and the young men of Bravo Company were asked again and again to stand up and fight under some of the most trying conditions of the lengthy war. And they delivered.

http://bravotheproject.com/bravo/

[WooWooWoo]

1. I can't imagine what Vietnam was like

My deployment consisted of a lot of humping over grape walls and marijuana and poppy fields, but you pretty much had visibility for a long ways away. The only time I ever felt trapped was when we would go through a wadi that was surrounded by dense vegitation on both sides. I'd be waist deep and there could have been Taliban 10 feet away in the brush and I wouldn't have seen them. That was the only patrol I'd been on when I was legit scared.

I can't imagine a deployment in a jungle where you can't see what's coming or what's around you.

[Victor_c3]

2. I second that

I work with a lot of Vietnam Veterans and they all tell me that they couldn't immagine having to fight in an urban environment like I had to in Iraq. I turn around and tell them that I couldn't immagine having to fight in the jungles. I guess you just get used to whatever environment that you're in.

I was a Mechanized Infantry guy and I'm so glad that I didn't have to deal with the Light Infantry fight. I have total respect and admiration for the guys who have to endure that ordeal for a whole deploymetn.