Reply #8: We are losing that war if troops are doing this on their own initiative. [View All]

[Mountainman]

It could be a self preservation motive if we are losing the war. The troops may not want the fact that they are losing to get spread all over the place which would give their enemy more support. I know this sounds like the right wing meme but it is just how it is or at least it is what they think would happen. In any case we must be losing badly and they don't want it to be known.

When I was in Nam my mother knew more about what was happening around me then I did. One day I saw that one of our open air equipment depots was on fire. It was burning for a couple of days. I asked G-2 what had happened and they would not tell me. A couple of weeks later my mom sent me a picture of that depot on fire that was in our local newspaper. The caption on the picture gave the location which my mom knew was where my company was located. The depot had been hit by North Vietnamese rockets according to the newspaper. The next weekend was Tet. This was at Long Bihn 50 miles from Saigon which we thought was very safe.