Project Reality Forums

sharpie wrote:JUST a quick BTW to those who do not know.

Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea.

Capital of Vietnam is Hanoi.

EDIT: No, it is Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh city is north of it.

'[R-DEV wrote:Eddie Baker;1555844']That's correct. There were psychological ops helicopters with speakers on them, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if the Riverines and SEALs actually water-ski behind the patrol boats, because bored troops are scary like that. But those are things depicted in so many movies and TV shows that just about everybody in the US who watched TV or movies in the mid 1980s has heard of it or "seen it."

And to do combat HALO jumps, plural, into enemy territory? The only unit known to have done such jumps (and have it be declassified) is MACV-SOG, and the dates and details on all but three of them are sketchy, and IIRC those last three were done by three different teams. Don't know if they had guys designated as tunnel rats in their recon teams, as they were pretty small.

The closest I have heard of any ground troops being to Hanoi (North Vietnam capital) was the Son Tay raid. From the air, you probably could see all the way to Hanoi; it was something like 40 km away. Odds of him being on one of those SOG HALO teams AND a Son Tay Raider are very slim.

And if he really got confused between the North Vietnamese and North Korean capital cities, then there's a serious loss of credibility.