Vietnam War
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There was music everywhere, mostly because the troops wanted it and the brass decided it reduced the drug use. If you were grooving to music, it usually deferred the next needle. I remember sitting on my tin can getting fire missions from "VCCS" (Viet Cong Co... Suc.."). He would play very loud rock over the FC net, occasionally interrupted by actual work. We'd play the ship's theme song "Good, Bad, and Ugly" whenever we lit all four off for in close shoots. Part of the culture at the time.
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During the Vietnam Conflict, did the US military actually blast music from helicopters? Or is...
I was a member of the 1/9th Cav, 1st Cavalry Division in 1967. That was the Cav unit portrayed in “Apocalypse Now”. We wore the Cav Stetsons, for ceremonies only, did not water ski behind the helicopters, but we did have speakers on some birds and sirens on some. We used them to scare and befuddle the enemy ground troops, but wasn’t very effective and was additional weight and drag that wasn’t worth the trade off.
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