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15 May 2023 Garand Picture of the Day
Captured U.S. small arms in Viet Nam
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I'd love to examine those at close up...
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I'll bet the Sgt Mgr of the Army didn't get to berate the SecDev for losing all those rifles......
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Originally Posted by
fjruple
About 3/4 of a million
M16
rifles were left there. Not to mention all of the other military aid to the
French and South Vietnamese Government before the Americans got on board.
Doesn't hold a candle to what our latest "regime" left behind in the Afghani bailout, all to be used against our current and former allies...
Russ
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This might verge on politics, but 'left behind' is a very relative term. Consider what was actually owned by or donated/given to the previous government in that country - choose your country - and what was really 'left behind' by another country's departing military.
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Originally Posted by
RASelkirk
Doesn't hold a candle to what our latest "regime" left behind in the Afghani bailout, all to be used against our current and former allies...
The Taliban arguably hate the Russians much more than they do the US. I've thought about what it would like like if the Taliban donated a bunch of what we left behind to Ukraine.
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Originally Posted by
RASelkirk
Sorry guys!
I tend to get wound up hearing any of the latest news, and it tends to carry over.
Sucks to be an old man who can't do squat but "rage against the machine", I'll try harder working on that...
Apologies!
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