Posted on Aug 13, 2018
Sappers raid Long Binh ammo dump - Aug 13, 1972 - HISTORY.com
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Communist sappers (demolitions specialists) attack the ammo dump at Long Binh, destroying thousands of tons of ammunition. Some observers said that the Communists might have been reverting to guerrilla tactics due to the overall failure of the Nguyen Hue Offensive that had been launched in March.
Also on this day in 1972, ex-U.S. Army Captain J. E. Engstrom says that a military report he helped prepare in 1971, estimating that 25 percent of the lower-ranking enlisted men in Vietnam were addicted to heroin, was suppressed and replaced by a “watered-down” version considered more acceptable to the U.S. command.
Also on this day in 1972, ex-U.S. Army Captain J. E. Engstrom says that a military report he helped prepare in 1971, estimating that 25 percent of the lower-ranking enlisted men in Vietnam were addicted to heroin, was suppressed and replaced by a “watered-down” version considered more acceptable to the U.S. command.
Sappers raid Long Binh ammo dump - Aug 13, 1972 - HISTORY.com
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Great history- would have loved to read the first report. Morning Mark
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In early 1971, I had to stay in military housing for one night before leaving for r&r. I used the stairwell, and saw hundreds of empty vials and capsules of different colors littering the stairwell - I presumed them to be discarded drug containers..... I remember pulling CQ one night at our unit in Can Tho, and I was warned to show no reaction and to say nothing when I went through one of the required checks of the enlisted billets. The darkened billets were loaded with the pungent smell of pot, and everyone looked at me with sullen faces. Around that same time frame, the officer's hooch next door was "fragged" once. We also found at least one known incidence of aircraft sabotoge.
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