Big Brother (Finally) Makes the Papers

[dilligaf]

I have already said that my older brother was part of a special USAF group that flew WWII airplanes in the Vietnam War.
He always says he was just the bus driver, and the Super Secret Squirrel guys were in the back of the plane doing the important stuff.

I thought it was pretty cool that the EC47 History site put up a picture of him getting a certificate of some time. 

It was probably for something like completing the most crossword puzzles during his "go out, find the enemy in classified locations** and mark him to be killed" missions.

ec47.com/

** "classified locations" = places where the US never officially was during the war.

[DrSchadenfreude]

The U.S. dropped more bombs on Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War than the combined tonnage dropped by all nations during WWII.

Indigenous casualties (including Cambodia) have been estimated at 4 million.

[daleko]

Apr 3, 2023 13:24:53 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

The U.S. dropped more bombs on Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War than the combined tonnage dropped by all nations during WWII.

Indigenous casualties (including Cambodia) have been estimated at 4 million.

Interesting sidebar is over half were dropped on Laos, out of Thailand. The ability to do so, because of equipment and supplies. Equipment being much larger aircraft, B-52s, and a robust bomb mfging capacity, along w storage in Thailand. Hell, there is still stuff rumored to be bunkered material there.

Why Laos? A number of reasons incl they were strong Communist in an era of the domino theory but using ground forces, officially, wasn't in the cards and the Ho Chi Minh trail, which funnelled Communist troops into SV ran along the Eastern border of Laos into VN. So they bombed em. Every 8 minutes, 24 hrs a day, for 9 years. Large capacity planes and unlimited bombs available.

[dilligaf]

Apr 3, 2023 21:12:55 GMT -5 daleko said:

Apr 3, 2023 13:24:53 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

The U.S. dropped more bombs on Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War than the combined tonnage dropped by all nations during WWII.

Indigenous casualties (including Cambodia) have been estimated at 4 million.

Interesting sidebar is over half were dropped on Laos, out of Thailand. The ability to do so, because of equipment and supplies. Equipment being much larger aircraft, B-52s, and a robust bomb mfging capacity, along w storage in Thailand. Hell, there is still stuff rumored to be bunkered material there.

Why Laos? A number of reasons incl they were strong Communist in an era of the domino theory but using ground forces, officially, wasn't in the cards and the Ho Chi Minh trail, which funnelled Communist troops into SV ran along the Eastern border of Laos into VN. So they bombed em. Every 8 minutes, 24 hrs a day, for 9 years. Large capacity planes and unlimited bombs available.

And we STILL lost the war, lost 58,000 known KIA, maimed many more military personnel, AND poisoned them with Agent Orange.   The original Agent Orange, not the Agent Orange 2021 that idiots are trying to push on us now.