Khe Sanh

and other supplies to make it through until the next supply shipment came in. Over the course of the war there were many battles, one battle, however was almost lost by the US due to a supply shortage, it was the battle at Khe Sanh. Gregg Jones, a soldier who fought in Khe Sanh during the crisis, tells how their supply problems ceased after a major supply run. Ammo platoons guarded by gunships were able to bring over…

What was the Tet Offensive and how did it change the Vietnam War? The Vietnam War, also known as the second Indochina War, was a conflict that was fought during the cold war era from the years of 1959 to 1975. The Vietnam War was fought because North Vietnam was trying to reunite South Vietnam to become one communist state, so Anti-Communist forces intervened to stop the spread of Communism and supported South Vietnam. In the Vietnam War, North Vietnam was supported by the communist forces…

least two years before coming home. Marty had missed him, “I kept him informed all about the car.” (Marty, p3). Marty took his time on that car, fixing it up for Stephan. It’s not stated what happened to Stephan during those two years he spent in Khe Sanh, but there was a clear change in Stephan when he went home. In his retelling of his story Marty tells the reader, “When he came home, though, Stephan was very different, and I’ll say this, the change was no good.” (Marty, p3). He was less…

Birth of the Air Cavalry While war was not new to the United States military, Vietnam was. A new campaign inside of a new country meant that the military would have to improvise, adapt, and overcome the environment that would span the next 13 years. Treacherous jungles, uneven terrain, and unfavorable weather were just a few of the conditions that would prove to be a disadvantage for the US military. Without a new approach, US forces would have to endure these conditions on foot and would…

pilots, and an example of the strength of a sixty-year-old Lockheed design that shows no sign of going anywhere. “C-130’s were also equipped to carry out low-altitude parachute drops of cargo, which led to the plane’s important role in the defense of Khe Sanh in ‘68” (Perry). This was because C-130’s carried about ninety percent of the supplies used by troops defending the village from a North Vietnamese…

The United States Marine Corps has been a very influential branch of the American military since the beginning of the American Revolution. They have fought in every American war in order to protect the United States and its democratic beliefs. Throughout the many years of dedicated service from the Marine Corps there have been marines that stand above the rest earning high ranking positions or having shown great heroism and bravery. The Marine Corps originated in Philadelphia, where two…

Nightly News. Whether involuntary or voluntary, his opinions would resonate with the viewers who watched and ultimately lacked judgments. Once Walter Cronkite stated that the war could not be won honorably after the Tet Offensive and the horrors of Khe Sanh, many were cautioned and reluctant to support escalation of the war. “To say that we are mired in bloody stalemate seems like the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory conclusion” (170). The United States had been left at an impasse between…

T. Coraghessan Boyle’s short story, “Greasy Lake,” is a work of fiction that is meant to display the absurdities of the American teenage experience. Published in 1985, Boyle is quick to contextualize the work within an 80s teenager’s frame of reference; he opens the story with a lyric from a Bruce Springsteen song, “Sprit of the Night,” which acts as Boyle’s first symbol in the story, a tribute to the teenagers of the decade in which the story is published. But, from the content, it can be…

An analysis of the Tet Offensive reveals stubborn mind sets can lead to strategic intelligence blunders. Many historians and military strategists know the Tet Offensive as the bloodiest time in the Vietnam conflict. Many intelligence professionals could point to certain actions which could have turned the tide of the battle or solidified Allied safety. Setting aside the Status Quo mind set and listening to proven doctrinal concepts fit to adapting to dynamic battlefields could have saved many…

As troops died, more were sent and they just kept coming. Through the many battles, Khe Sanh was the largest and bloodiest battles of the war. 77 days of thousands of people being killed in one single battle and that’s not including the people burned to death or not found from the U.S bombing during it. Many of troops and thousands of lives…