GI turns tables on the Viet Cong
This tale is about a GI who turned the tables on the Viet Cong in 1968.
Since 1956, the VC has been building strong, non-detectable bunkers all over the Mekong Delta South of Saigon in Vietnam. But along came Army Captain Gerald Robertson. "To put it mildly, we were getting shellacked," Robertson said, adding the VC would sit back in these bunkers and wait for the Americans, and then hit the Americans hard with deaths and wounded.
So Robertson got to thinking that he needed some Vietnamese soldiers on his side. As they knew the jungle and the delta, they knew the signs of the VC.
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