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1 little walk in the park that I was at we couldn't use artillary." You see, we were in the ancient capital of Vietnam and we were not allowed to have artillery support or arial bombing, they didn't want us to destroy the historic significance of the place. Better to lose Marines than destroy these old buildings.
it was just us, 2,500 Marine Corps Infantry against 10,000 hardcore NVA regulars. We took about 50% casualties and we killed 5,000 of them. Not bad for just a bunch of us old 0311 grunts.